| 7. Linguistic Exegesis The verse begins with the prepositional phrase meelohei {מֵאֵלֹהֵי | mê-ʾê-lō-hê} ‘from the gods’ modifying haamim. The relative pronoun asher ‘that’ introduces the restriction clause, and sevivoteikhem {סְבִיבֹתֵיכֶם | sə-vî-ḇō-tê-ḵem} ‘around you’ defines its spatial scope. The participial adjectives hakkrovim and harekhoqim present a binary near-far parallelism. The distributive prepositional phrases mimkha ‘from you’, miqtzeh {מִקְצֵה | miq-ṣê} ‘edge’, and veadqetzeh ‘and to the edge of the land’ form an inclusio emphasizing totality. The English rendition preserves this balance by mirroring the participial structure and the “from…to…” inclusio. |