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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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