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  • From: "Read, James C" <K0434995 AT kingston.ac.uk>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] 2Sam24:1 subjects
  • Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:24:05 +0100


I was asked to find a good example of ambiguous agents. Exodus 4:24-26 seems
to do the job nicely:

24 Now it came about on the road at the lodging place that Jehovah got to
meet him and kept looking for a way to put him to death. 25 Finally
Zip·po´rah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and caused it to touch
his feet and said: “It is because you are a bridegroom of blood to me.” 26
Consequently he let go of him. At that time she said: “A bridegroom of
blood,” because of the circumcision.

v24 Who met who? Who tried to kill who?
v25 Whose feet did the piece of skin touch? Who is the bridegroom of blood?
v26 Who let go of who?

None of the above questions can be answered unequivocally without extensive
use of context and a
touch of interpretation.

Love and Shalom
James Christian

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