[Mesorah] trop differences at the beginning of Sh'lach

[Dov Bloom via Mesorah]

IIRC it has to with length of words. The mercha before sofpasuk turns into
a tipcha if one of the last 2 words is a "longer word" . If the next to the
last word is a tipcha, it must be preceded by the zakef.
See Breuer 'Taamei Hamikra BeKafAlef Sefarim uvSifei Emet' pages 109-110.
Compare BeMIDBAR 3:21AND 3:33. These 2 psukim have near identical last 4
words: ele hem mishpahat haX. In the latter the last word is short, so
mercha tipha mercha sofpasuk. In the former verse the last word is long ,
so the change we described occurs and you get munach zakef mercha   sofpasuk

On Jun 16, 2017 14:41, "Sholom Simon via Mesorah" <mesorah at lists.aishdas.org>
wrote:

The structure of 11 of 12 of the p'sukim (from 13:5-16) are identical:

        l'mateh [name of sheve] ploni ben-almoni

(One is different because it's "l'mateh Yosef l'mateh Menasha)

And the trop for each of those 11 psukim are identical:

        munach pashta tipcha sof-pasuk

Except for one of them, at 13:8 ('l'mateh Efrayim Hoshei bin-Nun"), where
the trop is:

        mercha tipcha mercha sof-pasuk

Why are 10 the psukim one way, and the 11th one different?  (For that
matter, with my limited knowledge,  it seems the trop at 13:8 makes much
more sense to me -- why aren't all of them like that one?)

(It does occurs to me that the two puskim of the 12 that are different are
those of shevatim Menashe and Efrayim -- but that strikes me as drash
rather than dikduk)

Thoughts?

-- Sholom

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