[Avodah] Yishmael Text

[Yisrael Medad]

Toby suggets that
"the Torah almost never puts in one extra  word...You find  examples of this
all over Chumash...An example that comes to mind is with Dena and Shechem.
 Not until  we read that her brothers took her from Shechem's home (after
killing all the  men of the city) do we realize that she has been held
captive during all the preceding conversations and negotiations"

Well, I am not sure of that and I;m not referring to Parshat Nasso, for
example).  Verse 1 of Chapt. 34 states plainly "and he took her",
physically, i.e., absconded away with her, removed here from her previous
location - this "taking" cannot be the sexual act for that is described such
"and lay with her".  No, we surely can realize she was being held against
her will all this time.

As for the Hagar analysis, I'd go along with that.

-- 
Yisrael Medad
Shiloh
Mobile Post Efraim 44830
Israel
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