Bad, Bad Lemekh Brown (Gen 4:23)
You Can’t Go Home Again
23 Yes, I would kill a man for wounding me כִּ֣י אִ֤ישׁ הָרַ֙גְתִּי֙ לְפִצְעִ֔י
A boy, for bruising me וְיֶ֖לֶד לְחַבֻּרָתִֽי׃
In the last post, we had a preliminary translation of these words that went like this:
A man I killed to my wound
A boy to my bruise
To really understand this little snippet of poetry, we have to figure out four things:
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