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[b-hebrew] Light be made versus Let there be light.

From: Gerry Folbre <gerry AT wetmountainvalley.us>
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [b-hebrew] Light be made versus Let there be light.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:15:44 -0600

K Randolph: Hello.

I am very new at posting on this forum, and I hope that I am posting my observations in the correct manner. Please let me know if I have committed an error.

Translating Genesis 1:3 in a "word-for-word & bound morpheme inclusive" manner, this is how I perceive the Kethib, Masoretic, BHS text to read:
1:3 Then He said, Elohiym, "Become light": And it became light.

Does that match the source Text that you are employing?

Gerry Folbre

[b-hebrew] Light be made versus Let there be light., Gerry Folbre, 09/29/2009
- Re: [b-hebrew] Light be made versus Let there be light., James Christian, 09/30/2009