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VERSE: Gn06-13c

RASHIS COVERED: Gn06-13c Ex09-29a Ex32-03b Ex09-29a Gn49-25b

====================== Gn06-13c ==========================

SUCCINCT SUMMARY
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One of Rashis 5 main goals is to explain grammar
the same way modern Hebrew textbooks explain grammar
One function of grammar is to identify SPECIAL WORDS
such as WITH, OF, FROM etc. These connective words
occur frequently and connect sentence fragments.

Many of these connective words have multiple meanings

EXAMPLE
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ETH can mean FROM
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ITEM                     DETAIL
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RASHI RULE CLASS:        GRAMMARr
RASHI SUBRULE CLASS:     SPECIAL WORDS
RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE #9
SEE BELOW                LIST005a
Lists of verses with     ETH meaning FROM
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======================= LIST005a =========================
We present several verses where ETH means FROM
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VERSE    TEXT OF VERSE WITH eth TRANSLATED as FROM
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Gn06-13c I will destroy them FROM the land*10
Ex09-29a When I leave FROM the city
Gn44-04  As they left FROM The city
Gn41-08  And no one FROM THEM explained the dream
Ex32-03b They unloaded FROM the earings of their wives
Gn49-25b From God: He helps: FROM Almighty: He blesses*10

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*10 What a charming Rashi-Radack Controversy. Radack in
    his delightful book ROOTS clearly gives this as an
    example where ETH means FROM.

   Rashi in his commentary SEEMS to say the opposite
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   You followed Gods laws and were WITH GOD...hence
   God blessed you
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   Does Rashi then think ETH means WITH here? It
   appears so.

   But Radack has an OVERPOWERING argument. ALIGNMENT!
   ---------------------------------------------
   FROM the God of your Father:  He helped you
   FROM the Almighty----------:  He blessed you
   ---------------------------------------------

   Radack correctly argues that the two FROMS are
   parallel--hence we have to interpret ETH as
   meaning FROM. Rashi CAN NOT get out of this.

   Ah...but Rashi was not trying to. Rashi was
   commenting on the fact that one stanza
   speaks about the GOD OF YOUR FATHER while
   the other speaks about GOD (And leaves
   out the phrase OF YOUR FATHER)

   Hence Rashi-is-Simple: Joseph did NOT
   rely on his ancestral merit--rather
   Joseph relied on HIS God--his own
   observance (abstaining from his bosses
   wifes overture) earned him the blessing

   Similar observations apply to Gn06-13c.
   ---------------------------------
   I will destroy them FROM the land
   ---------------------------------

   Rashi suggests the alternative
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   I will destroy them WITH the land
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   (Because when the flood killed the people
   it also damaged the earth making it hard
   for agriculture)

   Since the second explanation interprets ETH
   as WITH it appears that Rashi preferred this
   explanation. I however do not presently know
   why (But hope to comment again when I find
   more examples)
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