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  • From: Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] When God began to create...
  • Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:32:13 +0000

On 11/23/05, B. M. Rocine wrote:
>
> Hi Yitzhak,
>
> The yiqtols and weqatal of Gen 2:5-6 do state the conditions at the time
> the narration of v. 7 begins. They should be read as "this would happen
> and that would happen." The are exactly parallel in _purpose_ to the
> X-qatal and noun sentences of Gen 1:2 even though they are not parallel
> syntactically.
>
> Shalom,
> Bryan

Shalom Bryan,

My point regarding Gen 2:6 is that Gen 2:6 seems to be describing an
event happening after 2:5. Namely, why does 2:5 go to a description of
how weeds and bushes did not yet grow, because God had not yet rained
upon the earth, when all this time there is an )d watering the earth? Why
does it matter then that it rained? So, 2:6 seems to happen *after* 2:5. If
that is so, why then is 2:6 to be regarded as part of the "parenthetical" and
not part of the "narration"?

Yitzhak Sapir




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