Although it may not be applicable to you, without Oral Torah there are many Mitzvot that we wouldn't know how to perform, because the details of how to perform them were not included in the written text. Deut. 12:21 - "As I have commanded you" Where did G-d command us how to perform slaughter?
Or "You shall keep Shabbat holy, as I have commanded your fathers" Jeremiah 17:22. Where did G-d command us exactly in detail how to keep the Shabbat holy?
I don't mean to be disrespectful to those on this list who don't believe that Torah consists of Oral and Written Torah, but if, from time to time, I am able to cite how some of our Commentaries explain verses that you are discussing, do you mind? Some of our Sages and Commentaries were famous as Biblical Hebrew linguists, shouldn't their input be included here?
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