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  • From: Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: wattswestmaas <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Why would the scribal authorities find this objectionable?
  • Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 00:45:35 +0200

Chris Watts 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?

I do not see the first sentence at all. But perhaps it is
objectionable,because it implies the Lord has feet.

Yitzhak Sapir




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