Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

As a previous step, I think it is important to make an agreement concerning the caesurae.  

How are you cutting the different parts of this verse, Karl?

I think the right cutting has to be this way:

(I'm putting some vowels between so that it becomes easier to read)

 

1. 'm ra'ah b'eney adonyha //

2. asher lw y'adah //

3. w-hepdah //

4. l'am nkry lo ym$ol l'mokrah //

5. b'bigdw bah
.

For the last two parts  -4 and 5-, I think the cutting between them is not strictly required (though I think it is better to cut for analysis purposes). Namely:

 

4. l'am nkry lo ym$ol l'mokrah b'bigdw bah

Do you agree with the cutting I propose for this five (or four) pieces? Or have you another opinion on it? 

 

Friendly,

 

Pere Porta

(Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain)

 

2013/5/1 K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>

Dear List Members:

I am finding this verse to be a little difficult to understand, and have puzzled over it many a time.

The second half seems to say, “he (the master) should not rule to sell her to a foreign people in his treating her underhandedly.”

But the first half — “But if she is displeasing in her master’s eyes…” which is clear, but the next ?? “which he had not had a (sexual ??) meeting nor did he cause her to be redeemed,”

Are we dealing with a misreading, what do the DSS say?

Is there and ancient custom of which I am ignorant?

Any thoughts?

Karl W. Randolph.

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