• <h1>Overview – Context and ChronologyShemot 18</h1> <p>Chapter 18 stands out from the neighboring stories of Chapters 15-19, in both its content and setting:</p>
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  • ...zra</a><a href="IbnEzraShemotShort18-1" data-aht="source">Short Commentary Shemot 18:1</a><a href="R. Avraham ibn Ezra" data-aht="parshan">About Ibn Ezra</a> ...Sinai – see <a href="ChronologyShemot 18" data-aht="page">Chronology of Shemot 18</a>.</point>
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  • <h1>Puzzles – Shemot 18</h1> ...Timnite (Shofetim 15), the husband &amp; father of the concubine (Shofetim 19), David &amp; Shaul. See <a href="In-laws" data-aht="page">Inlaws</a> for
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  • ...Timnite (Shofetim 15), the husband &amp; father of the concubine (Shofetim 19), David &amp; Shaul. See <a href="In-laws" data-aht="page">Inlaws</a> for ...ifre Bemidbar 78, Bavli Yevamot 47b, Rut Rabbah 2:22), and Queen of Sheba (Shemot Rabbah 27:4).</answer>
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  • ...a><a href="Tanchuma" data-aht="parshan">About Tanchuma</a></multilink> and Shemot Rabbah 27:1 which present a more detailed comparison of Yitro with Amalek a ...se in Mishlei 19:25 "Flog a scoffer, and the simple will become prudent." Shemot Rabbah and Midrash Shemuel take this even further, deepening Yitro's relati
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  • ...s arrival and reunion with Moshe (<a href="Shemot18-1-8" data-aht="source">Shemot 18:1-12</a>). Each artist made specific decisions as to whom to include in ...ely Mount Sinai.<fn>See&#160;<a href="Shemot19-2" data-aht="source">Shemot 19:2</a> "and Israel camped there before the mountain."</fn></p>
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  • <h1>ChronologyShemot 18 – Forum</h1> ...ray;border-radius:10px;padding:5px;color:#900;">Note: The contents of the Chronology pages have been modified and corrected to reflect the helpful input from th
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  • <h1>Structural Analysis – Shemot 18<br/>"Yitro's Visit"</h1> ...urce">U. Cassuto</a><a href="Cassuto18End" data-aht="source">Conclusion of Shemot 18</a><a href="Prof. Umberto Cassuto" data-aht="parshan">About Prof. U. Cas
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  • ...se descendants become a part of Israel.<fn>See <a href="Yitro's Life After Shemot 18" data-aht="page"></a> and see <a href="Yitro – Religious Identity" dat <tr><th>Backdrop<br/> <span style="font-weight: normal;">(Shemot 18:1)<br/> (Bemidbar 22:2-5)</span></th>
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  • <h1>Overview – Context and ChronologyShemot 18</h1> ...id="Shemot15-19" book="English Shemot" ref="15,22,23" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Shemot/15.22$$e1">
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  • <h1>Yitro's Life After Shemot 18</h1> ...data-aht="source">Shemot 18:12</a><a href="Cassuto18-27" data-aht="source">Shemot 18:27</a><a href="Prof. Umberto Cassuto" data-aht="parshan">About Prof. U.
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  • ...no4-18" data-aht="source">Sforno</a><a href="Sforno4-18" data-aht="source">Shemot 4:18,20,24</a><a href="R. Ovadyah Sforno" data-aht="parshan">About Sforno</ ...no4-18" data-aht="source">Sforno</a><a href="Sforno4-18" data-aht="source">Shemot 4:18,20,24</a><a href="R. Ovadyah Sforno" data-aht="parshan">About R. Ovady
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  • <h1>ChronologyShemot 18</h1> ...19" data-aht="page">here</a> for a discussion of the chronology of Chapter 19. If the nation arrived at Mount Sinai on the first of the third month and
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  • ...2" data-aht="source">Chizkuni</a><a href="Chizkuni18-12" data-aht="source">Shemot 18:12</a><a href="R. Chizkiyah b. Manoach (Chizkuni)" data-aht="parshan">Ab ...18-12" data-aht="source">Ramban</a><a href="Ramban18-12" data-aht="source">Shemot 18:12</a><a href="R. Moshe b. Nachman (Ramban, Nachmanides)" data-aht="pars
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  • <p>The second half of Sefer Shemot revolves almost exclusively around the building of the Mishkan, with thirte ...to the House of Hashem (<a href="Shemot23-19" data-aht="source">Shemot 23:19-33</a>). But there had not even been a hint of any need to build a temporar
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  • ...t="source">Shemot 18:15</a><a href="RYBS18-19" data-aht="source">Shemot 18:19</a><a href="R. Yosef Bekhor Shor" data-aht="parshan">About R. Yosef Bekhor ...ta-aht="source">Shemot 18:15-17</a><a href="Tzeror18-18" data-aht="source">Shemot 18:18-23</a><a href="R. Avraham Saba (Tzeror HaMor)" data-aht="parshan">Abo
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  • <h1>ChronologyShemot 18</h1> <topic>Approaches regarding <a href="Literary:Chronology" data-aht="page">chronological order</a> or lack thereof:
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  • ...-aht="source">Shemot 30:15</a><a href="RashiShemot30-16" data-aht="source">Shemot 30:16</a><a href="RashiBemidbar1-1" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 1:1</a><a hr ...ites upon their departure from Egypt, and then again a few months later in Shemot 30 to see how many had died in the aftermath of the sin of the Golden Calf.
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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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  • <li><b>The manna</b> –&#160;<a href="Shemot16-32-36" data-aht="source">Shemot 16</a> focuses on the story of the manna's initial arrival in the first yea ...re really an extension of the discussion of the Miluim ceremony relayed in Shemot 29.&#160; See R. D"Z Hoffmann who makes this point.</fn> and were important
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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="ChronologyShemot 18" data-aht="page">Chronology</a> for the range of opinions as to when Yitro arrived. According to this p
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  • ...ata-aht="source">R. S"R Hirsch</a><a href="RHirsch18-24" data-aht="source">Shemot 18:24</a><a href="R. Samson Raphael Hirsch" data-aht="parshan">About R. S"R ...d highlights that he did not think of Yitro's advice on his own.<fn>Dating Shemot 18 to the beginning of the second year also places it in close proximity to
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  • <h1>ChronologyShemot 18</h1> ...in Chapter 18 occurred before the nation arrived at Mount Sinai in Chapter 19.</span></p>
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  • ...18-1" data-aht="source">Rashbam</a><a href="Rashbam18-1" data-aht="source">Shemot 18:1,8,10</a><a href="R. Shemuel b. Meir (Rashbam)" data-aht="parshan">Abou ...ively on the nation. For further analysis, see <a href="Textual Variants – Shemot 18" data-aht="page">Textual Variants</a>.</fn></point>
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  • ...-time altars at Mt. Sinai and Mt. Eival, while R. D"Z Hoffmann posits that Shemot 20 refers to altars built for private use rather than for the entire nation ...emot 20 is merely presenting additional aspects which are not mentioned in Shemot 27.</p>
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  • ...e Covenant of Pieces Hashem presents the slavery as a foregone conclusion, Shemot 1 describes how Paroh and the Egyptians enslaved the Israelites without men ...>, but actually causes according to <a href="Shemot4-21" data-aht="source">Shemot 4:21</a> and many other verses.</p>
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  • ...in reality the blessings and curses were given along with the Covenant of Shemot 24.&#160; As such they refer only to those commandments given at Sinai, tho ...data-aht="source">Rashbam</a><a href="RashbamShemot12-1" data-aht="source">Shemot 12:1</a><a href="RashbamVayikra25-1" data-aht="source">Vayikra 25:1</a><a h
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  • <h1>Structural Analysis – Sefer Shemot<br/>"From Paroh's Slaves to Hashem's Servants"</h1> ...e">Ramban</a><a href="RambanShemotIntro" data-aht="source">Introduction to Shemot</a><a href="R. Moshe b. Nachman (Ramban, Nachmanides)" data-aht="parshan">A
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  • <h1>Overview – Sefer Shemot</h1> <p>Sefer Shemot recounts how the Israelites transformed from a nation of slaves serving Par
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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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  • ...onth. For more on the relationship between these events, see Chronology of Shemot 40.]</fn> span many years (from the thousands of years of Sefer Bereshit to ...ers </b>– The main characters of Sefer Devarim, like those of the books of Shemot, Vayikra, and Bemidbar, are Moshe and the nation.<fn>Sefer Vayikra is somew
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  • <point><b>Context</b> – The commands regarding the Days of Consecration in Shemot 29 follow the directives regarding the priestly garments, while the descrip ...mentioned first.<fn>R. Hoffmann alternatively explains that since in Sefer Shemot the previous chapters focused on the clothing of the priests, there was no
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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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  • ...rce">HaKetav VeHaKabbalah</a><a href="HaketavShemot2-11" data-aht="source">Shemot 2:11-12</a><a href="R. Yaakov Mecklenburg (HaKetav VeHaKabbalah)" data-aht= ...sides to confirm that nobody was in the vicinity. Thus, Vayikra Rabbah and Shemot Rabbah reinterpret these words to mean that Moshe saw with prophetic vision
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  • ...eRabbi Yishmael Shemot" data-aht="parshan">About Mekhilta DeRabbi Yishmael Shemot</a></multilink>, <multilink><a href="RashiYeshayahu6-157-13" data-aht="sour <point><b>Chronology of the chapters</b> – This position assumes that Sefer Yeshayahu is achro
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  • ...rs disagree over the circumstances which mandate the donations detailed in Shemot 30:12-16. One group of commentators explain that the census is the determin <p>Shemot 30:12-16 commands Moshe to conduct a census using shekalim, rather than thr
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  • ...oes not include his Italian publications). For a more complete account and chronology of Shadal's publications, see Vargon, Shadal: 39-51.</fn> <li>Commentary on the Torah<fn>5 vols., with Italian translation, Padua, 187176. This commentary incorporated several phases of Shadal's exegetical activ
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  • ...nonetheless veers from the true order of events. In one category of cases, chronology is sacrificed for thematic unity. This is especially evident when Tanakh re <p>Tanakh will often prefer thematic ordering over strict chronology, juxtaposing related material even if this means not adhering to a historic
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  • ...a-aht="source">Shemot 23:2</a><a href="RashiShemot33-13" data-aht="source">Shemot 33:13</a><a href="RashiBemidbar9-1" data-aht="source">Bemidbar 9:1</a><a hr ...witz, "דרכו של רש"י בהבאת מדרשים בפירושו לתורה", Iyyunim Chadashim BeSefer Shemot (Jerusalem, 1970): 503].&#160; According to her, Rashi is a pure exegete wh
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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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  • ...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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  • ..." data-aht="source">Sforno</a><a href="SfornoShemot4-24" data-aht="source">Shemot 4:24-26</a><a href="R. Ovadyah Sforno" data-aht="parshan">About R. Ovadyah ..." data-aht="source">Ramban</a><a href="RambanShemot4-19" data-aht="source">Shemot 4:20</a><a href="Ramban" data-aht="parshan">About R. Moshe Nachmanides</a><
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  • <p>Sefer Shemot recounts how the Israelites transformed from a nation of slaves serving Par <li><b>"Servants of Hashem"</b> – The last section, Chapters 19:1 – 40:38, speaks of the nation's spiritual redemption and their entering
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  • ...amban</a><a href="RambanBereshit47-14-19" data-aht="source">Bereshit 47:14-19</a><a href="R. Moshe b. Nachman (Ramban, Nachmanides)" data-aht="parshan">A ...with Netziv's repeated emphasis throughout this story and the beginning of Shemot on the importance of the nation living alone.&#160; He lauds Yosef for tryi
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  • ...rast the two on Bereshit 18:7, Bereshit 22:3, Bereshit 42:23, Shemot 2:13, Shemot 16:20, or Bemidbar 11:27.</fn> and by his intrascriptural exegesis (use of ...t="source">Shemot 6:14</a>, <a href="RashbamShemot16-31" data-aht="source">Shemot 16:31</a>, and many others.]</fn> he did not view these as false, writing,
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  • ...action to the nation's complaint in <a href="Shemot16-7" data-aht="source">Shemot 16:7</a>, where he includes himself as the object of attack, "<b>וְנַח ...="source">Bemidbar 1:2</a><a href="HoilMosheShemot20-20" data-aht="source">Shemot 20:20</a><a href="R. Moshe Yitzchak Ashkenazi (Hoil Moshe)" data-aht="parsh
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  • ...urce">Josephus</a><a href="Josephus1-19-7" data-aht="source">Antiquities 1:19:7</a><a href="Josephus" data-aht="parshan">About Josephus</a></multilink> r ..."source">Bereshit 38:1</a><a href="IbnEzraShemotLong2-2" data-aht="source">Shemot Long Commentary 2:2</a><a href="R. Avraham ibn Ezra" data-aht="parshan">Abo
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  • ...of Ramban's life overlapped with the reign of King James I of Aragon (12131276).<fn>King James I's extremely long reign was characterized by relativel ...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,
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  • ...ְדֹת יִצְחָק" –&#160;<a href="Bereshit25-19" data-aht="source">Bereshit 25:19</a> introduce the stories of Yitzchak and his children. These end in&#160;< ...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
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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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  • <p><a href="Bereshit25-19-34" data-aht="source">Bereshit 25</a>&#160;introduces Yaakov by telling the <p><a href="Bereshit25-19-34" data-aht="source">Bereshit 25</a> discusses Yaakov's buying of the birt
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  • ...JustinMartyrDialoguewithTrypho19-6" data-aht="source">Dialogue with Trypho 19:6</a><a href="JustinMartyrDialoguewithTrypho22-111" data-aht="source">Dialo ...data-aht="source">Netziv</a><a href="NetzivShemot18-12" data-aht="source">Shemot 18:12</a><a href="NetzivVayikra1-4_2" data-aht="source">Vayikra 1:4</a><a h
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  • ...ks of it only in passing. In his <a href="RambamCommentaryontheMishnaAvot5-19" data-aht="source">Commentary on the Mishna</a>, he describes Bilam as wick ...egarding his actions.<br/>For a parallel controversy regarding Bereshit 1819 over where to demarcate the boundaries of what some suggest was only a prop
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  • ...t doublings and contradictions, with almost every key element in Chapters 67 seemingly recorded twice. Additionally, there also appear to be internal c <li><b>Two vs. seven</b> – <a href="Bereshit6-17-22" data-aht="source">6:19-21</a> speaks of two animals from each species entering the ark, without di
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  • ...tter category. According to several reports by disciples (see Etkes, Gaon: 19-20), all works written by the GRA himself were composed by the age of forty ...;Hoshea, Yonah, Nachum, Chavakkuk, Iyyov, and Divrei HaYamim, as well as a chronology of the kings, and a discussion of the description of the Third Temple in Ye
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  • <h1>ChronologyShemot 18</h1> ...e xmlid="Shemot16-1" book="English Shemot" ref="16,1" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Shemot/16.1$$e1">
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  • <h1>Chronology of Bemidbar 1 – 10</h1> ..."Shemot30-11-16" book="English Shemot" ref="30,11,16" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Shemot/30.11$$e1">
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  • ...is land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: (19) the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, (20) the Hittites, the Perizz <source xmlid="Bereshit28-10" book="English Bereshit" ref="28,10,19" mgtype="Tanakh" url="Bereshit/28.10$$e1">
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  • ...ook="Shemot" data-ref="14,19,21" data-mg-type="Tanakh" data-url="Shemot/14.19">שמות י״ד:י״ט-כ״א</a>)</span>. ומפני זה ספר תורה ..._blank" data-book="Shemot" data-ref="15,8" data-mg-type="Tanakh" data-url="Shemot/15.8">שמות ט״ו:ח׳</a>)</span>, אפפוני מים עד נפש ת�
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