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> Do you know an instance in the HB where an act of God [Elohim] is
> said in the plural?

> Isaac Fried, Boston University

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I know one, Isaac.

Gn 11:7: "N"RDFH W:NFB:LFH"
Let Us go down and let Us confuse...
(God speaks, look at the first two words in 11:6; and compare with the 
verbal forms in 11:4 where they clearly refer to "we, a plurality of 
people")

Greetings.

Pere Porta
Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)



> On Apr 27, 2008, at 2:26 AM, Yaakov Stein wrote:
>
> > > If the yod in BOR)-EY-KA is a scribal error, then it is 'Creator'.
> >
> > Or if it is the divine plural, like Elohim
> > which comes just before BR) in the first use of either.
> >
> > Yaakov (J) Stein
> >
> >
> >
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