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Re: [b-hebrew] one-to-one rendering of olam

From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] one-to-one rendering of olam
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:24:28 -0500

I notice that the promise given to NOAX (Gen. 8:22) is conditional, without AD OLAM or LE-OLAM:
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease
עד כל ימי הארץ זרע וקציר וקר וחם וקיץ וחרף ויום ולילה לא ישבתו

Isaac Fried, Boston University

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