<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;" class=""><font face="Lucida Grande" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Chapter 12 verse 3: </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">וַאֲבָרְכָה מְבָרֲכֶיךָ וּמְקַלֶּלְךָ אָאֹר</span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;" class=""><font face="Lucida Grande" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Onkelos translates: </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">וֶאֱבָרֵךְ מְבָרְכָךְ וּמְלַטְטָךְ אֵילוּט</span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;" class=""><font face="Lucida Grande" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Seems to me strange that the verse will say “...those who bless…and the one who curse..</span>”</font></div><div style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#4d5156" face="Lucida Grande" class="">Septuagint translates both as plural - “those”.</font></span></div><div style="text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font face="Lucida Grande" class=""><font color="#4d5156" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">As for Onkelos, I don't know. Is the word </span></span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">מְבָרְכָךְ singular, plural, or can be both?</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font face="Lucida Grande" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font face="Lucida Grande" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Thanks,</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font face="Lucida Grande" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font face="Lucida Grande" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Aharon</span></font></div></body></html>