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What Is the Difference Between 'Man' And 'Son of Man' in Num 23:19?
In Greek LXX this distinction makes sense together with the verbs used in that sentence.
Balak has asked Balaam to curse two times in two different places. He hoped that after the first time god told ...
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What Is the Difference Between 'Man' And 'Son of Man' in Num 23:19?
in Exodus 15:3 it state that he is a Man;
The Lord is a man (אִ֔ישׁ) of war: the Lord is his name. Exodus 15:3 KJV
אִ֔ישׁ = man, H376
So the focus is not on Man (Ish) nor on the son of man/mankind (...
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What was the significance of the daily decrease of the number of bulls offered during Tabernacles in Numbers 29:12-32?
It seems to me that the decrease in numbers is a countdown towards the seventh day after the seventh day of offering; that is, a notional "fourteenth day" of offering.
On the first day of ...
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What was the significance of the daily decrease of the number of bulls offered during Tabernacles in Numbers 29:12-32?
70 is a significant number and we have good answers above. But why the decreasing numbers?
One possibility for the decrease relates to the spiritual significance of the feasts, all of which typify ...
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What Is the Difference Between 'Man' And 'Son of Man' in Num 23:19?
It is certainly a poetic or literary form common in Hebrew to parallel two similar things for emphasis or greater clarity. This same parallel exists in other places--here are a few of them:
How much ...
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What Is the Difference Between 'Man' And 'Son of Man' in Num 23:19?
This would be an example of what scholars refer to as "synonymous parallelism."
It is a literary device, sometimes used in Hebrew poetry, where the same idea is repeated in two different ...
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How many people were involved in the Exodus?
The main question "How many people were involved in the Exodus?" is not possible to answer. But we know that there were at least 603,550 people, according to Numbers 1-2. If we include all ...
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How did Korah’s descendants survive?
I think that some survived because all of the Psalms they have written speak of a yearning for God's love and forgiveness once more.
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