Bereshit Rabbah — 20
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Work: Midrash Rabbah
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Midrash Rabbah — selected PD Hebrew Genesis Rabbah
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[Bereshit Rabbah / 20 / 1] ויאמר ה' אלהים אל הנחש וגו' - (תהלים קמ) איש לשון בל יכון בארץ וגו' אמר רבי לוי: לעתיד לבא הקב"ה נוטל את עובדי כוכבים ומורידם לגיהינום, ואומר להם: למה הייתם קונסים את בני? והן אומרים לו: מהם, ובהם היו באים ואומרים לשון הרע איש על חבירו, והקדוש ברוך הוא נוטל אלו ואלו ומורידן לגיהינום. דבר אחר: איש לשון, זה הנחש, שאמר לשון הרע על בוראו. בל יכון בארץ, על גחונך. איש חמס רע יצודנו למדחפה אין כתיב כאן אלא למדחפות, אדם נתקלל וחוה נתקללה ונחש נתקלל ויאמר י''י אלהים אל הנחש וגו': [Bereshit Rabbah / 20 / 2] ויאמר ה' אל הנחש כי עשית זאת וגו'. (משלי טז) איש תהפוכות ישלח מדון ונר…
- Source
- Midrash Rabbah — selected PD Hebrew Genesis Rabbah
- Rights
- Public domain
- Reading language
- heb
- Source language
- heb
- Completeness
- PARTIAL Midrash Rabbah witness: exact Daat Bereshit Rabbah Hebrew export only, with supplied nonempty Genesis Rabbah chapters/paragraphs. Other Rabbah books and empty chapters/paragraphs are absent, not reconstructed. Different ToratEmet and modern English editions lack exact open rights metadata and remain held. Actual coverage: 1 exact source components, 81 chapter/section passages, 837 nonempty original paragraph/verse rows. Reference labels are deterministic paths in the original JSON, not invented missing historical chapter numbers. Reader navigation uses actual source book, tractate or named section labels; source component order is retained in evidence.
- Review
- Unverified edition; not Human Sealed
Recorded provenance: Unchanged original JSON embedded in explicit multi-source container. Reading body uses deterministic native wp_strip_all_tags, grouped by original parent array/section, with source-path labels and two-LF passage separators. Source component identities and native exact rights are retained. PARTIAL Midrash Rabbah witness: exact Daat Bereshit Rabbah Hebrew export only, with supplied nonempty Genesis Rabbah chapters/paragraphs. Other Rabbah books and empty chapters/paragraphs are absent, not reconstructed. Different ToratEmet and modern English editions lack exact open rights metadata and remain held. Actual coverage: 1 exact source components, 81 chapter/section passages, 837 nonempty original paragraph/verse rows. Reference labels are deterministic paths in the original JSON, not invented missing historical chapter numbers. Reader navigation uses actual source book, tractate or named section labels; source component order is retained in evidence.
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