Targums Onkelos / Pseudo-Jonathan / Jerusalem Fragments — Etheridge — Section 417
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Work: Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch
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Etheridge 1862 — retained OCR sections
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From Aram on Euphrates hath Balak king of the Moabaee brought me; from the mountains of the east : Come, curse for me the house of Jakob; come, for me make Israel small. [Jerusatem. And he took up the parable of his prophecy, and said: Balak, the king of the Moabaee, hath brought me from Aram, from the moun- tains of the east : Come, curse for me the house of Jakob; come, diminish for me the tribes of the house of Israel.] How shall I curse, (while) the Word of the Lord blesseth them ? and whom shall I diminish, when the Word of the Lord increaseth them? For, said Bileam the wicked,…
- Source
- The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch : with the fragments of the Jerusalem Targum from the Chaldee
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- eng
- Source language
- eng
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