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<DIV><A href="mailto:zev@sero.name">zev@sero.name</A> writes:</DIV>
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size=2>>>Actually, they'd only been traveling for one day - "hayom
yatzati vehayom<BR>bati" - so they probably weren't very thirsty. It
would still have been<BR>a big job for such a small girl, and demonstrated her
trait of chessed,<BR>but the total volume of water drawn may not have been all
that much.<<<BR><BR>-- <BR>Zev
Sero
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<DIV>That's a stretch.</DIV>
<DIV>I don't believe she was a little girl tagging along after an older woman
who was doing the real work, there is absolutely no source for that. Even
if she was only three (about which I believe there are different opinions) and
even if the trip only took one day (again, different opinions) the text is clear
that she was big enough to do real work and that she poured a LOT of
water. She had to fill troughs, remember.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby Katz<BR>=============</B></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><B><BR></B>--Toby<BR><B>--Toby
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