by admin | Nov 28, 2016 | Deuteronomy, Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
Then we left Horeb, Moses said, and passed through all that immense, forbidding (yârêʼ, והנורא) wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the Lord our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.[1] The word forbidding gives...
by admin | Feb 6, 2014 | Numbers, Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
Why then were you not afraid (yârêʼ)[1] to speak against my servant Moses?[2] Jehovah asked Miriam and Aaron. The rabbis who translated the Septuagint chose ἐφοβήθητε[3] here. Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married (for he...