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(Bart Laws, Fri 17 May 2024, 20:22:39)



People will probably wonder what's going on with the alphabet. In each group of 8 verses, in the original Hebrew, every line begins with the letter of the Hebrew alphabet at the top of the group. Obviously there is now way to represent that in translation, at least no way that's worth the trouble. It's also completely imponderable what the point of this is. Presumably the need to make that happen helps make this extra boring.
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