Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

oh well its because "to stand before" means to worship or to wait for an 
authoritative word.  You cant have God doing that to Abraham!

wattswestmaas wrote:

> GENESIS 18:22
>
> "the Lord yet stood before Abraham"  and "Abraham yet stood before the Lord"
> the first sentence being substituted for the latter in the masoretic notes.
>
> I do not understand why  the scribes would object to the first rendering?
>
> Chris Watts.
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