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VERSE: Gn09-11a

=================== MULTI VERSE SENTENCES =======================

 BACKGROUND
 ----------
 We continue the examples we brought last time in
 posting http://www.RashiYomi.Com/dt02-16a.htm
 The following table illustrates a rule of grammar on sentence
 formations. About a dozen examples are presented in this
 table where ONE SENTENCE consists of TWO OR MORE VERSES.

 THE TEXT
 --------
 For example one verse says I WILL MAKE A CONVENANT while the
 the next verse I WILL PLACE MY RAINBOW IN THE CLOUD. Together
 these form 1 compound sentence: I WILL MAKE A CONVENANT BY
 PLACING MY RAINBOW IN THE CLOUD.

 THE RASHI
 ---------
 Rashi simply points out that these multi-verses can best be
 understood as one sentence.  The footnotes give further
 details and show the point behind these Rashis.

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
 ---------------
 This table was motivated by a question I received by a
 colleague while attending that National Cherish A Child
 Dinner of Amit Women last Tuesday. See footnote *12

 Here is the list
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VERSE    FN BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF MULTI-VERSE SENTENCE
======== == =====================================================
Gn09-11a *1 And I will make a CONVENANT:...the RAINBOW in cloud
Nu05-12d *2 If a women TRESPASS her marriage..& SLEEP with a man
Nu14-17a *2 God be GREAT as you told me: God is MERCIFUL...
Dt02-04a *2 You are passing Seir; Be CAREFUL:..dont PROVOKE them
Dt04-32c *2 Has anyone ever heard this GREAT thing:..God SAVED us
Dt06-06a *2 LOVE the Lord your God:...by sharp LEARNING

NOTES
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*1 Gn09-10:14 form a 4 verse sentence as follows

   --------------------------------------------------------
   Gn09-10 I(God) will make
   -------------------------a convenant WITH you
   -------------------------------------WITH your children
   Gn09-11 -----------------------------WITH the animals
   -------------------------a convenant of no more floods
   Gn09-12 -------This is the convenant WITH you,children...
   Gn09-13 --I will place the rainbow in clouds
   --------------------------------------------------------

   For a more detailed analysis see footnote *10

*2 We have approached these verses using the principle
   of the multi-verse sentence. An alternative approach
   is to use the Rabbi Ishmael principle of the
   GENERAL-PARTICULAR style. This style requires that we
   identify the meaning of each CAPPED GENERAL item with
   the CAPPED PARTICULAR item that follows it.

   For a development of this idea see footnote *11. For a
   URL presenting Rabbi Ishmaels rule see
   http://www.RashiYomi.Com/example4.htm


------------------ LONGER FOOTNOTES -----------------------

*10 By aligning the 4 verses we can see the 2 major
   components of this 4-verse sentence

   ---WHO the convenant was made with:
   In fact the convenant was made with YOU, YOUR CHILDREN
   THE ANIMALS, etc

   ---WHAT the convenant agreed to: The convenant promised
   no more floods, and a rainbow as a symbol of the
   convenant.

   The repetition of themes is a common style in long
   sentences.

*11 In this footnote we sketch the results of
    http://www.RashiYomi.Com/example4.htm. We show
    how to apply Rabbi Ishmaels style rule of GENERAL-
    PARTIULAR to these verses.

   For example Nu05-12 speaks about a women TRESPASSING
   her marriage: This could mean many things: It could mean
   sleeping with other men, or it could mean insulting
   him in public or it could mean dressing immodestly.

   The multi verse structure (Which we have indicated
   using a colon) explains each CAPPED general term by
   the CAPPED particular term following it: Thus the
   women TRESPASSED her marriage by ADULTERY. A similar
   explanation applies to the other items.

   A similar explanation applies to the other items.
   For example: The GREAT THING in Dt04-32 refers to
   the fact that God SAVED ONE NATION FROM ANOTHER.
   Similarly the concept of LOVE OF GOD mentioned in
   Dt06-06 refers to LEARNING.

   The multi-verse structure is appropriate for such
   a general-particular style since we place a colon
   after the GENERAL ITEM and then explain it with
   the particular item. The reader should now review
   the other examples on this list

*12 The question asked is how these databases of mine
    are constructed. I answered that they are built up
    in little pieces and eventually sewn together in one
    big table. Thus the posting from last time on multi-verses
    is now combined with this posting. As I go from Parshah
    to Parshah I make little lists which eventually become
    big lists.

    This method was successfully used by Rabbi Akiva.

    In computer science it is known as a BOTTOM-UP approach
    vs a TOP-DOWN approach.

    Most people are SPOILED by our grammatical databases.
    People forget that these databases were built up over
    a 1000 year period! They were built up the same way
    I am building up the Rashi database. It is important
    to have completed finished products like grammar
    databases. It is equally important to build new
    databases.
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RASHI RULE USED: THE SENTENCE
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WARNING: The following additional references may be too wordy
However they frequently contain additional information & lists
The hyperlinks only work on the main website

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