Hi Everyone:
Below is the collation for Exercise 21, Hebrew-to-English, pp 116-117
(half-way through!!!). Also, all previous collations are now
available at:
http://www.oocities.org/berelbeyer/answers.html
Next up: Exercise 21, English-to-Hebrew, pp. 117-118 (EVEN ONLY), due
Thursday, February 13, before 4 PM Eastern Standard Time. Anyone is
welcome to join in, whether or not you've participated in the past.
Write your answers out by hand (or with Hebrew word-processing
software that has nikudot), and send them to me by whatever means you
find easiest. See the following URL for details:
http://www.oocities.org/berelbeyer/formatting.html
If you possibly can, please take a few minutes to say Tehillim
(Psalms) for Israel. Please see the following URL for details and PDF
file of a few interlinear Tehillim provided by Artscroll:
http://www.oocities.org/berelbeyer/tehillim.html
Have a wonderful Shabbos, all,
Berel
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The participants this week are Berel (BB) and Wiesia (WF). We are
both begging apologies for rushing through the assignment!
1 BB On that day David made Solomon king over all Israel.
1. WF On that day David made Shlomo, his on, king over Israel.
2 BB All the men of Israel came to Shechem to make Saul king over
them, for Hashem has chosen him as king. And then Samuel the prophet
made him king. And Samuel spoke to (lit. in the ears of) the people
saying: "Behold I have listened to your voices according to all that
you said, and I have made the king reign over you. Behold your king
is before you! And it will happen if he will indeed keep the mitzvot
of Hashem and he will do according to all that is written in the
Sefer Torah of Moses, and his heart will be at peace with the Hashem
his G-d, (then) behold Hashem your G-d will be with you and he will
fight on your behalf and he will give to you a salvation from all you
enemies, and he will place a fear of you upon the nations of the
earth."
2. WF All the men of Israel came to Samuel to Shechem to make Saul
king over them because Hashem chose him to be a king and Samuel, the
prophet, made him king there. And Shmuel spoke in the elders of the
people saying, Behold, I've heard your voice acc.to all that you've
said and I'll make a king to reign over you, and behold your king is
before you and it shall come to pass that if he does keep the
commandments of the Lord and he doeacc.to all that is written in the
Book of the law of Moses and it'll come to pass that his heart will
be perfect unto Hashem his God, behold Hashem, your God will be with
you and he'll walk to you and he'll give unto you salvation from all
your enemies and he'll give fear of you unto all the nations of the
earth
3 BB Speak to Pharaoh and say to him: "Thus said Hashem, the G-d of
Israel, behold I am sending my angel into your midst and he will kill
all the first-born of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharoah who is
dwelling on his throne, to the first-born of the the slave. And I
will distinguish on that day between Israel and between Egypt, and
you will know that I am Hashem.
3. WF Speak to pharaoh and said unto him, Thus spoke Hashem,God of
Israle. Behold i am sending my messenger / angel instead of you (and)
to kill al the firstborn [sons] of Egypt, from pharaoh's firstborn
siting upon his throne and as far as the firstborn of the servant,
and I'll distinguish on that day between Israel and between Egypt,
and you'll know [=learnt] that I am the Lord/ Hashem.
4 BB And Hashem spoke to Moses saying: "Assemble the heads of the
people and its judges and speak to them saying, 'separate yourselves
from amidst this wicked assembly, for Hashem is destroying this
place, and they will go down to Sheol, they and their wives and their
sons and their daughters and their sheep and all that is theirs.
4. WF And Hashem spoke to Moshe saying, Make the 'heads' of the
people and his judges to gather together and ypu'll speak to them
saying, that wicked assembly has divided in their midst so that God
destroyed that place and they descended to Sheol, they and and their
men and their sons and their daughters and their flocks and all that
belonged to them.
5 BB The woman hid the spies of Israel with her in the house, and the
elders of the city sought them and they did not find them.
5. WFThe woman hid the spies of Israel with her in the house, and the
elders of the city sought them and couldn't find them.
6 BB And on that day I will hide my face from them, and their enemies
will come to them and they will destroy their cities and they will
take all the gold which is found (participle) in the house of Hashem
and they will burn the Bayit Hakodesh.
6. WF On that day I'll hide my face from them and they will come upon
them and destroy their ..?.. and take all their sacrifice to be found
in the house of the Lord and burn the holy house.
7 BB Hashem saw that all flesh has brought ruin upon his? (referring
to Hashem in the primary clause) / its? (referring to basar in the
secondary clause) way on the earth.
7. WF God saw that all the flesh destroyed its way upon the earth.
8 BB The angels said to them, do indeed escape to the mountain for we
are destroying the city.
8. WF The angels said unto me, Do flee to the mountains because we'll
destroy the town.
9 BB Why did you hide your face from me, am I not your servant?
9. WF Why are you hiding your face from me, Am I not your servant?
10 BB From the heavens you made your voice heard (I would have
thought you'd need a Hophal to have a passive meaning -- I'd have
translated hishmata as "caused to hear!"-- I only knew this because
of the dictionary entry) and you spoke to us from the middle of the
fire.
10. From the heavens you've made your voice heard and I spoke unto
you from the midst of the fire.
11 BB G-d saw the light which he made and behold it was very good,
and he separated between the light and the darkness.
11. God saw the light which he had made and behold it was very good,
and he distinguished between the light and the dark.
12 You Israel are my first-born son whom I have chosen from all the
nations to separate them to myself as a holy nation (I couldn't find
this "hidil li ... l..." in my Holladay dictionary, but it is in
BDB).
12. My son, my firstborn, you are - Israel - which I have chosen from
all the nations to gather them together unto me for a holy nation.