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  • ...="source">51:9-10</a>, <a href="Yechezkel29-3" data-aht="source">Yechezkel 29:3</a>, <a href="Yechezkel32-2" data-aht="source">32:2</a>, <a href="Tehilli <li>Biblical verses – see LXX Shemot 7:9-12.</li>
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  • <h1>Literary Devices – Shemot 11</h1> ...when Hashem declares that the Israelites have the status of His firstborn (Shemot 4:22).</li>
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  • <h1>Puzzles – Shemot 18</h1> <li>How does Tanakh refer to the respective fathers-in-law of the husband and wife?
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  • <li>How does Tanakh refer to the respective fathers-in-law of the husband and wife? <li>What son-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships are described in Tanakh?
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  • ...ot Bamikra</a>&#160;points out that Yaakov’s name change is one of many in Tanakh.&#160; However, Avraham and Yaakov are the only two people whose names are ...once when his name is changed by the "man" (perhaps, angel) in Bereshit 32:29 and once when it is changed by Hashem directly in Bereshit 35:10.</p>
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  • <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 2</h1> ...ere and in the story of Noach’s ark.&#160; This suggests that the verse in Shemot might be intentionally alluding back to the story of Noach.&#160;</li>
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  • ...-4" data-aht="source">Shofetim 19:4,7,9</a>. חֹתֶנֶת appears only once in Tanakh – <a href="Devarim27-23" data-aht="source">Devarim 27:23</a>.</li> <li>Etymology – "חֹתֵן" is used in Tanakh to refer to the father of the wife with whom the <a href="Dictionary:חָת
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  • <h1>Literary Devices – Bereshit 29</h1> ...al narrative in which a basic narrative sequence appears multiple times in Tanakh, each time with modifications that serve the needs of the specific unit. Pa
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  • <h1>Yitro's Life After Shemot 18</h1> <p>At the end of Shemot 18, the Torah tells us of Yitro's departure:</p>
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  • ...18-21" data-aht="source">Ramban</a><a href="Ramban18-21" data-aht="source">Shemot 18:21</a><a href="R. Moshe b. Nachman (Ramban, Nachmanides)" data-aht="pars ...eyahu 15:13, 17:3, Yechezkel 28:4-5, Yoel 2:22, Tehillim 49:7,11, Iyyov 15:29</li>
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  • ...f Yaakov and Esav in Bereshit 32-33 and the reunion of Moshe and Aharon in Shemot 4.<fn>In both, a younger brother on his way to reunite with an older brothe ...Yaakov’s and Moshe’s near-death encounters with angels in Bereshit 32 and Shemot 4, noting that both relate to a refusal/delay to fulfill a mission.</li>
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  • ...atorah.org/TanakhLab?c1=Vayikra:1:1-5:26&amp;c2=Vayikra:6:1-7:38&amp;f=bc">Tanakh Lab</a>.</li> ...at Tzav stem from their connection, not to Parashat Vayikra, but to Shemot 29 and its discussion of the Days of Consecration.</li>
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  • ...atorah.org/TanakhLab?c1=Vayikra:1:1-5:26&amp;c2=Vayikra:6:1-7:38&amp;f=bc">Tanakh Lab</a>.</li> ...at Tzav stem from their connection, not to Parashat Vayikra, but to Shemot 29 and its discussion of the Days of Consecration.</li>
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  • <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 28-29</h1> ...stly garments, many look to other instances where clothing plays a role in Tanakh.</p>
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  • ...med by an inlcusio: In the description of Yosef and Yaakov's reunion in 46:29, the two throw themselves upon on another and cry. Here, upon Yaakov's deat ...e closure of the first stage of human history in the eyes of Tanakh. Sefer Shemot will open the next stage with a narrative of prolific birth.</li>
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  • <li><b>Judge or ruler</b>&#160;– See, for instance, the word's usage in Shemot 4:16, 7:1, 21:6, 22:7-8, and 22:27, Shemuel I 2:25, Tehillim 82:1</li> ...ֶתְיָה), Y.&#160;&#160; See also the phrase&#160; "לאל ידם" in Bereshit 31:29 and Mikhah 2:1 which means the power of their hands.</li>
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  • ...ns of two" ; hence the Hebrew term "שניים שהם אחד" (two which are one). In Tanakh there are several phrases which have been understood by some to be a hendia <category>Proposed Hendiadys in Tanakh
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  • <h1>In-law Stories in Tanakh</h1> <p>In Tanakh there are four stories of in-law relationships in which the husband has a l
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  • <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 18</h1> <li>See&#160;<a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/Dual/Biblical_Parallels/Shemot/18.10#m5e3n6">Makbilot Bamikra</a> for&#160; a list of links to verse which
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  • ...ars in only three places in Tanakh: <a href="Shemot7-26" data-aht="source">Shemot 7:26 – 8:11</a>, <a href="Tehillim78-45" data-aht="source">Tehillim 78:45 ...t="source">Netziv</a><a href="NetzivShemot7-29" data-aht="source">Shemot 7:29</a><a href="R. Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin (Netziv)" data-aht="parshan">Abou
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  • <h1>Literary Devices – Shemot 6</h1> ...the narrative that was interrupted by a genealogical list. See Rashi on 6:29, who points out the resumptive repetition.</li>
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  • ...s which serve as a culmination for the entire unit of instructions (Shemot 29:44-46):</p> ...tion of the command is highlighted when one compares the Masoretic text of Tanakh with the Samaritan Pentateuch and one of the Qumran scrolls (4QpaleoEx) whi
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  • ...ht="source">Jubilees</a><a href="Jubilees30-17-29" data-aht="source">30:17-29</a><a href="Jubilees" data-aht="parshan">About Jubilees</a></multilink> cla <category>Tanakh and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
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  • <h1>Structural Analysis – Shemot 3:1 – 4:17<br/>"Commissioning of Moshe"</h1> ...see <a href="Structure – Sefer Shemot" data-aht="page">Structure of Sefer Shemot</a>.</p>
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  • ...prophets, including even a few female prophetess.<fn>These include Miryam (Shemot 15:20), Devorah (Shofetim 4:4), and Chuldah (Melakhim II 22:14). Yeshayahu ...ll be from among the nation, and chosen by Hashem.<fn>See also Bemidbar 11:29 where Moshe says, "כִּי יִתֵּן י"י אֶת רוּחוֹ עֲלֵ
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  • <p>The word appears 28 times in Tanakh, and in many of the cases it is difficult to determine whether it connotes ...Egyptians before leaving Egypt. Alternatively, it refers to livestock, as Shemot 12:38 emphasizes the "צֹאן וּבָקָר מִקְנֶה כָּבֵד �
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  • ...e phrase in Torah are in our chapter, though it appears four more times in Tanakh.</fn>&#160; It is not clear if the second term is simply a shortened form o ...al narrative in which a basic narrative sequence appears multiple times in Tanakh, each time with modifications that serve the needs of the specific unit. Pa
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  • ...uch harsher and more negative evaluation of the nation in Bemidbar than in Shemot.</p> ...ous complaints, including Shemot 14:10-14, Shemot 15:22-25, Shemot 16:2-4, Shemot 17:1-7, Bemidbar 14:2-3, Bemidbar 20:1-6, and Bemidbar 21:4-7.</li>
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  • <h1>Chronology – Shemot 18</h1> ...8/Audio1.ogg" type="audio/ogg"></a><a href="/Media/2Shemot/18/Chronology – Shemot 18/Audio1.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"></a></audio>
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  • ...the of the poor (<a href="Devarim14-28-29" data-aht="source">Devarim 14:28-29</a>) or loans to the disadvantaged (<a href="Devarim15-7-10" data-aht="sour ...evarim/22" target="_blank" data-book="Devarim" data-ref="22" data-mg-type="Tanakh" data-url="Devarim/22">דברים כב</a>}</span> שלח תשלח את ה�
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  • <p>The story of Moshe's killing of the Egyptian in Shemot 2:11-12 introduces the reader to the adult Moshe, and helps shape their ini ...r to take his life)? The question depends on how the word "מכה" is used in Tanakh. Does it always mean to smite or can it also take on the added connotation
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  • <p>The above cases are by no means the only stories in Tanakh in which there seems to be collective punishment. From the Flood in the tim ...laved the Israelites (<a href="Shemot12-29-30" data-aht="source">Shemot 12:29-30</a>).<fn>The decree extended even to children of prisoners who were very
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  • <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 39-40</h1> ...stly garments, many look to other instances where clothing plays a role in Tanakh.</p>
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  • ...00;">וְשָׁב מֵחֲרוֹן אַפּוֹ</span>" appear 13 times in Tanakh, but in only Shemot and Yonah is the phrase accompanied by the root "נחם".</li> <li>Variations of the phrase "נחם על הרעה" appear 11 times in Tanakh, but the full formulation "<span style="color: #3366ff;">וַיִּנָּח
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  • Shemot 18, Bemidbar 11, and Devarim 1</h1> ...e relationship between the three accounts, the primary question is whether Shemot 18 and Bemidbar 11 speak of events which occurred at totally different time
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  • <h1>Literary Devices – Shemot 2</h1> ...href="https://www.etzion.org.il/en/tanakh/studies-tanakh/literary-readings-tanakh/between-chiastic-and-classical-parallelism">Between Chiastic and Classical
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  • ...–&#160;<multilink><a href="#" data-aht="source">Mekhilta DeRabbi Yishmael Shemot 18:1</a></multilink>. For discussion, see&#160; <a href="Yitro – Names" d ...data-aht="source">1:13</a><a href="Shemot Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Shemot Rabbah</a></multilink>. For discussion, see: <a href="Who are the Midwives"
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  • ...ll depict the crossing of Yam Suf (<a href="Shemot14-27" data-aht="source">Shemot 14</a>). Each artist highlights different aspects of the story, and portray ...h Hashem and Moshe, as recorded in <a href="Shemot14-27" data-aht="source">Shemot 14:31</a>: "וַיַּרְא יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶת הַיָּד הַ�
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  • <p>At times Tanakh switches from speaking in second person to third person (or vice versa) whe ...">Ibn Ezra</a><a href="IbnEzraYeshayahu1-29" data-aht="source">Yeshayahu 1:29</a><a href="IbnEzraRut4-3" data-aht="source">Rut 4:3</a><a href="IbnEzraRut
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  • <h1>Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 4</h1> ...fruitful to compare and contrast Moshe’s initial prophecy (נבואת הקדשה) in Shemot 3-4,&#160; with that of others, such as Gideon (Shofetim Chapter 6), Shemue
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  • <p>Within a span of eleven verses in <a href="Shemot2-16" data-aht="source">Shemot 2:16-3:1</a>, the Torah introduces Zipporah's father / Moshe's <i>choten</i ...rce">Mekhilta DeRashbi</a><a href="MekhiltaDeRashbi18-1" data-aht="source">Shemot 18:1</a><a href="Mekhilta DeRashbi" data-aht="parshan">About Mekhilta DeRas
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  • ...as Aharon's role in the sin? Was he an active partner in hitting the rock? Tanakh is not explicit. Though Aharon participates in gathering the nation to wit ...miracle as described in Bemidbar? The word סלע appears dozens of times in Tanakh and from context, could sustain both the definition of cliff,<fn>See for ex
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  • ...by his distinguishing between Cohanim and "us" in Bereshit Beiur HaMilot 1:29-30), R. Levi HaCohen must have been his maternal grandfather, and not Ramba <li>Shemot – 1 Elul 5090 (August 17, 1330)</li>
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  • ...vraham and Iyyov were two of the most devout believers in God to appear in Tanakh, and that both managed to preserve their faith despite many trials and hard ...ereshit 42:18</a>), the Midwives (<a href="Shemot1-1721" data-aht="source">Shemot 1:17,21</a>), and Yonah (<a href="Yonah1-9" data-aht="source">Yonah 1:9</a>
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  • ...source">Kohelet 7:15</a>.</fn>&#8206; the issue comes up time and again in Tanakh.<fn>See also <a href="Chavakkuk1-13" data-aht="source">Chavakkuk 1</a>, <a ...ertain verses, such as <a href="Devarim29-17-20" data-aht="source">Devarim 29:17-20</a>, explicitly refer to the individual, promising that s/he specific
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  • ...aht="source">Cassuto</a><a href="UCassutoShemot25-23-30" data-aht="source">Shemot 25:23-30</a><a href="Prof. Umberto Cassuto" data-aht="parshan">About Prof. ...ported by the parallel verse in <a href="Shemot37-10-16" data-aht="source">Shemot 37:16</a> in which the term "אֲשֶׁר יֻסַּךְ בָּהֵן" is j
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  • ...</b>".</fn> and the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy<fn>The text below is from Shemot 34 where the Attributes are first transmitted to Moshe. A condensed version ..."לְשֹׂנְאָי" and "לְאֹהֲבַי וּלְשֹׁמְרֵי מִצְוֹתָי" which do not appear in Shemot 34.</li>
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  • ...3</a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorBemidbar14-29" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 14:29</a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorBemidbar16-1922" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 16: ...e punishment</b> – These commentators try to explain away all the cases in Tanakh where there seems to be collective punishment by suggesting that in each in
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  • ...when Moshe marries Zipporah and shepherds Yitro's flock, and then again in Shemot 18 when Yitro comes to visit Moshe in the wilderness. At each of these crit ...rce">R. Saadia Gaon</a><a href="Rasag18-8" data-aht="source">Commentary on Shemot 18:8-21</a><a href="R. Saadia Gaon" data-aht="parshan">About R. Saadia Gaon
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  • <p>A middle position focuses on the description of the choosing of Aharon in Shemot 28, setting his selection prior to the story of the Calf.&#160; In anticipa ...data-aht="source">3:17</a><a href="Shemot Rabbah" data-aht="parshan">About Shemot Rabbah</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="PirkeiDeRabbiEliezer36" data-ah
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  • ...data-aht="source">Keli Yekar</a><a href="KeliYekar18-1" data-aht="source">Shemot 18:1</a><a href="R. Shelomo Ephraim Luntschitz (Keli Yekar)" data-aht="pars <point><b>Timing</b> – See <a href="Chronology – Shemot 18" data-aht="page">Chronology</a> for the range of opinions as to when Yit
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  • ...text, as evidenced by dates, relative ages, or even geographical data.<fn>Tanakh often traces people's travels, so knowing where an event took place might a ...the nation's journey to Canaan (<a href="Shemot16-32-35" data-aht="source">Shemot 16:32-35</a>).</li>
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  • ...ht="source">Jubilees</a><a href="Jubilees30-17-29" data-aht="source">30:17-29</a><a href="Jubilees" data-aht="parshan">About Jubilees</a></multilink>, th ...ShemotSecondCommentary32-29" data-aht="source">Shemot Second Commentary 32:29</a><a href="R. Avraham ibn Ezra" data-aht="parshan">About R. Avraham ibn Ez
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  • <h1>Chronology – Shemot 18</h1> ...ee his (earlier) <a href="BiurShemot18-27" data-aht="source">commentary to Shemot 18:27</a> where he proposes that Yitro's departure took place only in the s
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  • ...tps://mg.alhatorah.org/Dual/Olam_HaMikra/Shemot/28.17#m4e0n6">Olam HaMIkra Shemot 28</a>.</p></div> ...ht="source">Shemot 28:17</a> and <a href="Shemot39-8-14" data-aht="source">Shemot 39:10</a>) and the stones of Gan Eden (<a href="Yechezkel28-13" data-aht="s
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  • <h1>Textual Variants – Shemot 18</h1> ...s in four respects:<fn>This is true in general, and specifically regarding Shemot 18 – see examples in the categories below.</fn></p>
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  • <h1>Tenses in Tanakh</h1> ...he subject ("וַיֵּלֶךְ אַבְרָם" or "וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה") . At times, though, Tanakh employs a form known as "עבר מהופך",&#160; beginning with the subje
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  • <content>Commentaries on Tanakh and Talmud, Sifrut Debei Rashi</content> ...urces), to be round numbers.</fn> – July 13, 1105.<fn>This date, Thursday, 29 Tammuz 4865, is found in the colophons of a number of manuscripts of Rashi�
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  • ...aht="source">Shemot 16:34</a><a href="NetzivShemot32-27" data-aht="source">Shemot 32:27</a><a href="NetzivVayikra10-3" data-aht="source">Vayikra 10:3</a><a h ...>Shemot 8:25-27</a> and <a href="Shemot9-29-33" data-aht="source">Shemot 9:29-33</a>.</fn> – According to this approach, despite the silence in the tex
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  • ...sef Bekhor Shor</a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorShemot16-34" data-aht="source">Shemot 16:34</a><a href="R. Yosef Bekhor Shor" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef B ...amples, see Shemot 4:22-23 (though perhaps related to 11:5), 7:15-18, 7:26-29, 8:16-19, 9:1-4, 9:13-19, 11:2 and 14:2.&#160; See also <a href="Invoking H
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  • <h1>Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East</h1> <category>Treaties in Tanakh
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  • ...k; no parallel to this is to be found upon Yitzchak's death in Bereshit 35:29.</fn> This makes one wonder whether Yaakov was really motivated by pure ma ...y, Hashem refers to the Children of Israel as "בְּנִי בְכֹרִי יִשְׂרָאֵל" (Shemot 4:22). This implies a special status of a chosen nation, unconnected to fi
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  • <p>There are several words In Tanakh which are treated as both masculine and feminine, at times taking a masculi ...:5</a> where it takes a feminine verb (כִּי <b>תֵ</b>צֵא אֵשׁ)<fn>See also Shemot 9:23, Vayikra 6:3,6, Vayikra 9:24, 10:2, Bemidbar 11:2 and others</fn>&#160
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  • <p>Tanakh, like many written works, is filled with repetitions. Sometimes verses repe <p>Some cases of repetition in Tanakh might be accounted for by the principle commonly known as a "כלל ופר�
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  • ...Zvi Hoffmann</a><a href="RDavidZviHoffmannShemot1-11-14" data-aht="source">Shemot 1:11-14</a><a href="R. David Zvi Hoffmann" data-aht="parshan">About R. Davi ...rs to a labor tax.<fn>This seems to be the way the word is used throughout Tanakh.&#160; In several places, a labor force is explicitly mentioned as part of
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  • ...21-1" data-aht="source">Tosafist MS Oxford 2343 (Tosafot HaShalem Bereshit 29:21:1)</a><a href="Baalei HaTosafot" data-aht="parshan">About Ba'alei HaTosa ...osef Bekhor Shor</a><a href="RYBSBereshit29-35" data-aht="source">Bereshit 29:35</a><a href="RYBSBereshit30-21" data-aht="source">Bereshit 30:21</a><a hr
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  • ...cretions. See, for example, <a href="Shemot29-14" data-aht="source">Shemot 29:14</a> and <a href="Vayikra4-11" data-aht="source">Vayikra 4:11</a>.</fn>&# ...>Ralbag</a><a href="RalbagShofetim3-12-29" data-aht="source">Shofetim 3:12-29</a><a href="RalbagShofetim3Toelet6" data-aht="source">Shofetim 3 Toelet 6</
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  • ...or differing literary genres. Even when two units do not overlap in time, Tanakh might prefer to arrange certain units thematically, grouping together simil <p>Tanakh will often prefer thematic ordering over strict chronology, juxtaposing rel
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  • <p>Rambam and Ralbag attempt to minimize the supernatural events of Tanakh, suggesting that Hashem attempts to preserve natural order as much as possi <p>The number of seemingly supernatural phenomena described in Tanakh is minimized, either by suggesting that the stories should not be read lite
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  • ...urce">Shemot 17 Questions</a><a href="AbarbanelShemot17" data-aht="source">Shemot 17</a><a href="AbarbanelDevarim25" data-aht="source">Devarim 25</a><a href= ...-aht="source">Shemot 1:15</a><a href="ShadalShemot17-14" data-aht="source">Shemot 17:14</a><a href="ShadalDevarim25-12" data-aht="source">Devarim 25:12</a><a
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  • ...ht="source">Shemot 7:25</a><a href="AbarbanelShemot10-1" data-aht="source">Shemot 10:1-2</a><a href="R. Yitzchak Abarbanel" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yitzc ...viewed by the Egyptians as a god.<fn>Tanchuma Vaera, Midrash Aggadah, and Shemot Rabbah similarly explain that Hashem chose to attack the Nile first for thi
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  • ...r Shor</a><a href="RYosefBekhorShorDevarim29-28" data-aht="source">Devarim 29:28</a><a href="R. Yosef Bekhor Shor" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef Bekh ...ed <b>them</b>..." ).&#160; Hoil Moshe explains that it is not unusual for Tanakh to switch from plural to singular and thus the reader need not learn that t
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  • ...source">R. S.R. Hirsch</a><a href="RSRHirschShemot23-19" data-aht="source">Shemot 23:19</a><a href="R. Samson Raphael Hirsch" data-aht="parshan">About R. Sam ...aht="source">R"Y Kara</a><a href="RYosefKaraShemot23-19" data-aht="source">Shemot 23:19</a><a href="R. Yosef Kara" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef Kara</a>
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  • ...2" data-aht="source">Rashi</a><a href="RashiShemot17-12" data-aht="source">Shemot 17:12</a><a href="R. Shelomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)" data-aht="parshan">About R. <li><a href="Shemot1-10" data-aht="source">Shemot 1:10</a>&#160;("כִּי תִקְרֶאנָה מִלְחָמָה") –&#160
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  • <content>Commentaries on Bereshit and Shemot, Volumes on Ancient Near East and vs. Documentary Hypothesis, Editor of Enc <li>At the age of 29, he was appointed instructor of Bible and Jewish history at the rabbinical
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  • ...of Yefet b. Eli in MGWJ (1897): 205 and Aharon b. Eliyahu in Keter Torah, Shemot p. 143. Ibn Ezra in his Short Commentary cites this position in the name of ...e principle of "מידה כנגד מידה", or "just deserts", is a dominant motif in Tanakh.<fn>It should be noted, though, that many of these instances are with regar
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  • <content>Tanakh and Talmud commentaries</content> ...b>Biblical commentaries</b> – Rashbam wrote a commentary on most or all of Tanakh. See below regarding his Torah commentary. Commentaries of Rashbam on Tehil
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  • ...g to a day in which something ceased.&#160; See, for example, its usage in Shemot 15:25-25 or Vayikra 23:3, and the opinion below which takes this understand ...date.&#160; [The Karaite R. Aharon b. Yosef, in his comments to Shemot 18:29, asserts that the date of revelation is 3 Sivan, while the Samaritans comme
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  • ...ta-aht="source">Shemot 36:8</a><a href="RYBSShemot38-21" data-aht="source">Shemot 38:21</a><a href="RYBSVayikra2-13" data-aht="source">Vayikra 2:13</a><a hre ...aht="source">Shemot 29:46</a><a href="RambanShemot40-34" data-aht="source">Shemot 40:34</a><a href="RambanVayikraIntroduction" data-aht="source">Introduction
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  • ...ource">Ramban</a><a href="RambanVayikra27-29" data-aht="source">Vayikra 27:29</a><a href="R. Moshe b. Nachman (Ramban, Nachmanides)" data-aht="parshan">A ...a disjunctive and means "or" rather than "and".<fn>R. Yosef Kimchi brings Shemot 21:17, "וּמְקַלֵּל אָבִיו וְאִמּוֹ", as another exa
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  • ...aht="source">Abarbanel</a><a href="AbarbanelShemot20-11" data-aht="source">Shemot 20:11</a><a href="AbarbanelVayikra26-3" data-aht="source">Vayikra 26:3</a>< ...Devarim 28</a> or&#160;<a href="Devarim29-21-27" data-aht="source">Devarim 29:21-27</a>.&#160; As these include agricultural blessings, promises of victo
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  • ...here was no sin in the union and hence no punishment. The story appears in Tanakh only as a reaction to mythological tales of gods coupling with humans to fo ...f="BereshitRabbatiBereshit6-2(pp29-31)" data-aht="source">Bereshit 6:2 (pp.29-31)</a><a href="Bereshit Rabbati" data-aht="parshan">About Bereshit Rabbati
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  • ...ape of Dinah.&#160; He adores Rachel, yet he is one of the few husbands in Tanakh to explicitly rebuke his wife. How are we to understand these contrasting t ...source">Netziv</a><a href="NetzivBereshit29-31" data-aht="source">Bereshit 29:31</a><a href="R. Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin (Netziv)" data-aht="parshan">A
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  • ...source">Bereshit 22:1</a><a href="RashbamShemot12-40-41" data-aht="source">Shemot 12:40-41</a><a href="R. Shemuel b. Meir (Rashbam)" data-aht="parshan">About ...15:13</a> (400 years) and&#160;<a href="Shemot12-40-41" data-aht="source">Shemot 12:40-41</a> (430 years). This position maintains that the 400 years starte
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  • ...f Hashem" in its last chapter.</fn>&#160; They are the only two leaders in Tanakh to merit the title.</li> ...r Moshe asks, "Who am I to go to Paroh" Hashem says, "I will be with you" (Shemot 3:12).&#160; Hashem echoes this encouragement to Yehoshua, telling him "As
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  • ...th the Givonites (Yehoshua 9), this is understood to be an honest mistake. Tanakh blames the people for not asking Hashem before breaking bread with them ("� ..."Shemot33-5-11" data-aht="source">Shemot 33:11</a>, <a href="Bemidbar11-26-29" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 11:28</a>, and <a href="Yehoshua1-1" data-aht="
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  • ...es</a></multilink> who maintains that all visions of an angel described in Tanakh (including this story) occurred in a dream or prophecy. For more, see <a hr ...Rashbam</a><a href="RashbamBereshit32-21" data-aht="source">Bereshit 32:21-29</a><a href="R. Shemuel b. Meir (Rashbam)" data-aht="parshan">About R. Shemu
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  • ...that the food was provided before the sale. See <a href="Grammar:Tenses in Tanakh" data-aht="page">Past Perfect</a>, though, that the form also sometimes mer ...:Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East" data-aht="page">Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East</a>.</fn> However, Rashbam does not account for t
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  • ...ty with the contemporary usage of a word influences the way one interprets Tanakh, as one might not recognize that a word's definition might have evolved, be ...are several words whose meaning might have changed from one period within Tanakh to another:</p>
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  • ...a>, cited by C. Chavel as evidence that Ramban completed his commentary on Shemot after the age of seventy, may be a later addition to the commentary. If so, ...a href="Commentators:Ramban's Updates/Devarim#DEV11-29" data-aht="page">11:29</a>.</fn></li>
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  • ...Between Shemot and Devarim" data-aht="page">Decalogue Differences Between Shemot and Devarim</a> confidence before his reunion with&#160;<a href="Commentato ...es</a></multilink> who maintains that all visions of an angel described in Tanakh (including this story) occurred in a dream or prophecy. For more, see <a hr
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  • ...Between Shemot and Devarim" data-aht="page">Decalogue Differences Between Shemot and Devarim</a> confidence before his reunion with&#160;<a href="Commentato ...es</a></multilink> who maintains that all visions of an angel described in Tanakh (including this story) occurred in a dream or prophecy. For more, see <a hr
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  • ...aite</a></multilink>.&#160; Ibn Ezra dismisses the question by pointing to Shemot 11:10, which attributes all the wonders in Egypt to Moshe and Aharon, despi ...2.&#160; He also points to the phrase&#160;"וַיִּפְגְּשֵׁהוּ ה'&#8207;" in Shemot 4:24 as another example of Hashem "attending" a circumcision without any ac
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  • ...R. D"Z Hoffman</a><a href="RDavidZviHoffmannShemot20-20" data-aht="source">Shemot 20:20</a><a href="R. David Zvi Hoffmann" data-aht="parshan">About R. David ...ag</a><a href="RalbagMelakhimI18-26-29" data-aht="source">Melakhim I 18:26-29</a><a href="R. Levi b. Gershom (Ralbag, Gersonides)" data-aht="parshan">Abo
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  • <li><span class=link title="Professor of Tanakh, Bar Ilan University">Professor Yonatan Grossman</span></li> <li><span class=link title="Professor Emeritus of Tanakh, Haifa University">Professor Yeshayahu Maori ז"ל</span></li>
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  • ...">Ibn Ezra</a><a href="IbnEzraBereshit11-29" data-aht="source">Bereshit 11:29</a><a href="IbnEzraBereshit12-1" data-aht="source">Bereshit 12:1</a><a href ...Chapter 11.<fn>For further discussion and other examples of achronology in Tanakh, see <a href="Chronological and Thematic Order" data-aht="page">Chronologic
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  • ...0" data-aht="source">Rashi</a><a href="RashiShemot24-10" data-aht="source">Shemot 24:10</a><a href="RashiVayikra10-1-3" data-aht="source">Vayikra 10:1-3</a>< ...acle, it is possible that the brothers encountered it upon their entry.<fn>Shemot 40:35 records that when Hashem's glory filled the Tabernacle, even Moshe hi
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  • ...hips and emotional attachment.<fn>See, for instance, Bereshit 22:2, 25:28, 29:20 and 37:3, which describe Avraham's love of Yitzchak, Yitzchak and Rivka' ...ve of Hashem and observance.<fn>See <a href="Shemot20-5" data-aht="source">Shemot 20:5</a>, <a href="Devarim7-9" data-aht="source">Devarim 7:9</a>, <a href="
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  • <li><a title="Tanakh Department, Ma`ayanot Yeshiva High School, Teaneck, NJ, Adjunct Professor a ...="Rosh Batei Midrash and Academic Director of Matan and Senior Lecturer in Tanakh at Herzog College" href=#letter-Ziegler data-toggle=my-modal>ד"ר יעל �
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  • ...ommentary to Yonah (1992), Prof. D. Henshke, "למשמעו של ספר יונה", Megadim 29 (1998): 75-90, and many others.</fn></mekorot> <point><b>Comparison to Eliyahu</b> – The only other case in Tanakh in which a prophet appears to successfully effect change in the people is E
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  • ...a different way, demonstrating that the Second Commentary on Bereshit and Shemot are not part of a single edition and need not have been written in the same ...second commentaries on Esther, Daniel, Tehillim, Bereshit, Shir HaShirim, Shemot, and Trei Asar while in Rouen, and his third commentary on Bereshit while i
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  • ...:23-26</a><a href="RDZHoffmannBereshit19-29" data-aht="source">Bereshit 19:29</a><a href="R. David Zvi Hoffmann" data-aht="parshan">About R. David Zvi Ho ...n Tanakh, though, the word is masculine. See, for instance: Bereshit 30:2, Shemot 22:23, and 32:10.</fn></point>
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  • ...ht="source">Lekach Tov</a><a href="LekachTovShemot15-25" data-aht="source">Shemot 15:25</a><a href="R. Toviah b. Eliezer (Lekach Tov)" data-aht="parshan">Abo ...he parallel verse "וְאֵלֶּה הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים אֲשֶׁר תָּשִׂים לִפְנֵיהֶם" in Shemot 21:1 also refers to the giving of mitzvot, and this may underlie R. Yehuda'
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  • <h1>In-law Stories in Tanakh</h1> <source xmlid="Bereshit27-41" book="English Bereshit" ref="27,41,43" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Bereshit/27.41$$e1">
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  • ...of Hashem's aid found in other discussions of entry into the land such as Shemot 23:27-28.</fn></point> ...rn equivalents</b> – This position's understanding of the trumpet calls in Tanakh can be compared to the role played by bugle calls in the army, where differ
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  • ...birth of Yitzchak), they could not have accounted for the later verses in Shemot 12:40-41 which mention the figure of 430 years.</fn></mekorot> ...for a full 430 years. To do so, they must posit that Moshe's genealogy in Shemot 6 omits several generations and includes only the more prominent personalit
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  • ...lbimYeshayahuBeurHaInyan30-29" data-aht="source">Yeshayahu Beur HaInyan 30:29</a><a href="MalbimTehillimBeurHaInyan113-1" data-aht="source">Tehillim Beur ...er to a severe sickness.</fn> and from enemy attack. As the only person in Tanakh who survived such an illness is Chizkiyahu, and, moreover, since the diseas
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  • ...:Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East" data-aht="page">Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East</a>.</li> ...r.</fn> has suggested that this meaning might illuminate several verses in Tanakh in which the more common definition of "to judge" or "execute judgement" is
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  • ...ress to Shimon and Levi, commentators mine the various episodes throughout Tanakh in which the two tribes play a part, searching for which stories best fit Y ...בָּשָׁן" (Amos 4:1), or the heads of Moav being labelled "אֵילֵי מוֹאָב " (Shemot 15:15). R. Hirsch similarly explains that the word שור means "power."&#1
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  • ...t="page">Collective Punishment</a>.<fn>For analysis of specific stories in Tanakh see also&#160;<a href="Avraham's Prayer for Sedom" data-aht="page">Avraham' ..." data-aht="source">Shadal</a><a href="ShadalShemot20-4" data-aht="source">Shemot 20:4</a><a href="R. Shemuel David Luzzatto (Shadal)" data-aht="parshan">Abo
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  • ...they attempt to present composite theories of how Divine justice works in Tanakh and throughout the course of history.</p> ...>Midrash Aggadah (Buber)</a><a href="AggadahShemot20-12" data-aht="source">Shemot 20:12</a><a href="Midrash Aggadah (Buber)" data-aht="parshan">About Midrash
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  • ...R. D"Z Hoffmann</a><a href="RDavidZviHoffmannShemot20-1" data-aht="source">Shemot 20:1</a><a href="R. David Zvi Hoffmann" data-aht="parshan">About R. David Z ...of these upcoming plagues. In the aftermath of the sin of the Golden Calf (Shemot 32), Moshe employs the name of God ("כֹּה אָמַר י"י") in command
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  • ...n of the formation of the nation and its accompanying legal codes in Sefer Shemot?<fn>See <multilink><a href="RashiBereshit1-1" data-aht="source">Rashi</a><a ...>Bereshit 28:12</a><a href="RambanBereshit29-2" data-aht="source">Bereshit 29:2</a><a href="RambanBereshit32-4" data-aht="source">Bereshit 32:4</a><a hre
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  • ...בני ישראל במצרים?&#8207;</a>", Bar Ilan University Weekly Parashah Sheet (Shemot 5761) who suggests that this position reflects a desire during the Roman pe ...Shelomo Ephraim Luntschitz</a></multilink> and Tzeidah LaDerekh (on Rashi Shemot 2:14) attempt to the various opinions in the Bavli as coming to explain why
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  • <point><b>Bilam's character</b> – According to&#160;Rambam, at this point in Tanakh, Bilam is a positive character, loyal and obedient to Hashem's word, as evi ...he Midianites.<fn>As there is no other evidence of Bilam's evil actions in Tanakh, this verse would be the obvious candidate to point to as proof that he had
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  • ...href="RalbagShemotBeurHaMilot29-10" data-aht="source">Shemot Beur HaMilot 29:10</a><a href="RalbagVayikra1-4" data-aht="source">Vayikra 1:4</a><a href=" ...e the Mishkan</b> – Ramban challenges this approach from the characters in Tanakh, such as Kayin and Hevel, and Noach, who brought sacrifices when no idolatr
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  • <content>Aderet Eliyahu on Tanakh, Beur HaGRA</content> ...s noted to be from a manuscript of the GRA (“כת"י”). The GRA’s commentary (Shemot-Devarim) includes abbreviated versions of the Midreshei Halakhah (as the GR
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  • ...0-17" data-aht="source">50:17</a>, <a href="Shemot10-17" data-aht="source">Shemot 10:17</a>,&#160;<a href="Shemot32-20" data-aht="source">32:20</a> or <a hre ...ibn Ezra" data-aht="parshan">About R. Avraham ibn Ezra</a></multilink> on Shemot 12:7 who views the role played by the blood in the Pesach offering in a sim
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  • ...t="source">רד״צ הופמן בראשית י״ח:כ״ג-כ״ו</a><a href="RDZHoffmannBereshit19-29" data-aht="source">רד״צ הופמן בראשית י״ט:כ״ט</a><a hre ...n Tanakh, though, the word is masculine. See, for instance: Bereshit 30:2, Shemot 22:23, and 32:10.</fn></point>
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  • ...f served the sons of the maidservants.<fn>As the word "נַעַר" elsewhere in Tanakh means servant, they assume that here the root is being used as a verb to me ...<a href="YalkutShimoniTorahBereshit29-31" data-aht="source">Torah Bereshit 29:31</a><a href="Yalkut Shimoni" data-aht="parshan">About Yalkut Shimoni</a><
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  • ...of the motifs of rain and deep springs is found elsewhere as well, both in Tanakh (see Mishlei 3:20), and in the Epic of Gilgamesh (Tablet 11).</fn></li> ...Attempting to understand "דרכי המקראות", the literary devices employed by Tanakh, has long been a tool of traditional exegesis, and it constitutes both a fo
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  • <h1>Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East</h1> <source xmlid="Bereshit9-8-17" book="English Bereshit" ref="9,8,17" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Bereshit/9.8$$e1">
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  • <h1>Tenses in Tanakh</h1> ...it1-29" book="English Bereshit" ref="1,29" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Bereshit/1.29$$e1">
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