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  • From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: "B-Hebrew List" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Past Tense in Ex. 12:13
  • Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:17:03 +0200

On 10/4/06, Gary Hedrick wrote:
What I'm curious about, of course, is the fact that he uses past
tense verbs to describe events that are yet in the future. Instead of "When
I see the blood, I will pass over you," as per our English translations, in
the Hebrew it's literally, "When I saw the blood, I passed over you."

Gary

The waw at the beginning of the words acts a waw conversive, that is,
the tense switches.

Yitzhak Sapir




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