----- Original Message -----I understand your interpretation as something like "The right/faithful thing to do is to cut them off...", i.e. as a way of introducing a command.
From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
On 23/08/2005 17:01, Karl Randolph wrote:I don't follow you here, how can this be a command?
... By allowing for the "stronger" use of WAW in Leviticus 20:17 preceding the NKRTW a reading of the verse will not force us into a unique meaning for XSD rather the XSD HW) WNKRTW L(YNY BNY (MM is the complete phrase.I accept that this parsing is not totally impossible, although unlikely. But this still means accepting a unique sense of XESED as suggesting some kind of command.
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