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  • From: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>
  • To: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Exodus 21:8
  • Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 20:37:54 +0200

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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