Notes on the text of the book of Genesis : with an appendix online

agrees with the genitive, and not with the noun in the cstr.
state: cf. Ges., § 146. i. R. 2 ; M. R., § 135. 3 a; Dav., S.,
§ 116. R. 2.

n^tr D^tr^UJI 'niXd nt^n Vtn. The noun r\^^ repeated
with the ten ; cf Ges., § 134. 3 ; M. R., § 97. Rem. c. Dav.,
S., § 37. R. 3. ''H is perf. from ^^n, as in 3, 22.

6. n:3tr n^^?:^'! n^l"^ \r?2n. The noun repeated with
the lesser number (from 3-9 inclusive) in the pi., and with
the greater in the singular. See reference to Grammars in
preceding note.

22. ni^ "fi::n -f^nn"'1 ; so Noah, 6, 9, walked with God ;
cf. a similar use of the Qal in Mic. 6, 8. Mai. 2,6. nx li?nnn
is used of confidential intercourse with God, a closer relation-
ship to God than is implied in 'walking before God^ (17, i),
or, 'walking after God' (Deut. 13. 5); cf. i Sam. 25, 15 of
the intercourse between David's followers and Nabal's ser-
vants. The LXX have here EvijpeaTTjaev 8i 'Eva>x ra Geo),

perhaps to avoid an anthropomorphic idea; cf Ecclus. 44,



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16. 49, 14, and Heb. ii, 5 7ri(TTci 'Evoix. Onq. paraphrases

'^1 ^^i'nnil •I'lin -j^^m '^;;^^y^ walked m tJie fear of Yahweh:
The Pesh. renders as the LXX, jo^^ij ^ai** ta*.o 'Enoch
pleased God!

24. ins np7 *'D '122*'b^1. 'And he was nof, for F/ohim
took hwi;^ cf, the usage of T^ in Is, 17, 14. Ps. 103, 16.
I Kings 20, 40, of sudden disappearance. On its use in the
narrative style, cf. Ewald, § 321 a ; M. R., § 128, 2 a. n\h ^3
'''X ")n^ merely transliterating the
Heb. words; so in Job i, 6. 2, i ; Aquila, viol rwv Qewv,
on which Hieron., Quaes/, ed. Lagarde, p. 11, says, ' Deos
intelUgens sancios sive angelos ;' Symm., ol vloX riov dwaarevov-
T