Biblical Hebrew Forum

[George F Somsel <gfsomsel AT juno.com>]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:47:48 +0300 "Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>
writes:
> > You seem to read selectively.  It not only states that there was no 
> man
> > to till the ground but that YHWH had not caused it to rain on the 
> earth.
> > It would thus seem to exclude either source of moisture which 
> would be
> > necessary for the growth of herbage:
> >
> > 1. Rain
> > 2. Irrigation
> 
> That was my first impression. But then I realized than avod is not 
> normally 
> used in the meaning "to irrigate."
> Besides, bushes grow pretty well without irrigation.
> Also, the man was settled in Eden that already had natural 
> irrigation. That 
> implies that the man was uncapable of such work.
> 
> 2:5, �All talk in the fields would be no more in the land, and all 
> herbs of 
> the field would grow no more, for the Lord God did not cause it to 
> drizzle 
> on the land, and there was no man to work the land.�
> 
> Vadim Cherny
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First you omit that which is in the text and then you insert that which
is not in the text.  2.5-6 is prior to the statement that YHWH planted a
garden.  2.5-6 therefore has nothing to do with any supposed naturally
irrigated land.

george
gfsomsel
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