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Genesis 9-16 (Translated) (view source)
Revision as of 00:48, October 29, 2009
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|Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
|Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
|God told Abraham to leave his country, his people and his family and to go to a land that He would reveal to him.
|Now the [[YHWH|L<small>ORD</small>]] said to [[Abraham|Abram]],
"Get yourself out of your homeland,
: away from your clan,
: and out of your father's house,
to a land that I will show you.
|There is no grammatical warrant for the use of the pluperfect tense form of the verb "say" here. The tense form of the verb '''אמר''' (''amar'', he said) is the regular Hebrew perfect tense, and the context does not support a reference to an action taken in the distant past.
The original Hebrew is a poetic form called an ''introversion''. In it, the first and fourth lines actually rhyme in Hebrew, as do the second and third; hence the second and third lines are closely related, and the first and fourth lines are also closely related. God is telling Abram to get out of one land and into another, and away from his nuclear and extended family.<ref name=Jones>For another example, see Jones FN, ''[[The Chronology of the Old Testament]]'', Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2004, p. 59.</ref>
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==Chapter 13==
==Chapter 13==