At 04:00 PM 5/30/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello Jim!
>
> It's <taw-qoph-resh-beth> tiqereb" instead of tegaleh
><taw-gimel-lamed-heh>, though tegaleh does appear in 5:10. Hope this helps
>and apologies for the unconventional transliterations.
qrb merely means "draw near". its a bit eisegetical, it seems to me, to say
this is incest. in fact "drawing near" could be a little less evil. it can
imply proximity for any number of things. like "drawing near" to God- which
is hardly incest!
CD seems to me to be listing regulations for participants of the community-
one of them-- leave the family behind.