| 4. Linguistic Exegesis The clause begins with efes {אֶ֕פֶס | ʾê-pes} ‘nevertheless’, a particle of restrictive negation that establishes an ideal condition. The juxtaposition of lo {לֹא | lōʾ} ‘not’ with yihyeh-bekha {יִֽהְיֶה־בְּךָ֖ | yiḥ-yě-hāh bə-ḵā} ‘will be among you’ forms a categorical prohibition of poverty. The infinitive absolute paired with an imperfect in ki-varekh yevarekekha {בָרֵךְ יְבָרֶכְךָ | brêḵ yə-var-ě-ḵā} ‘surely he will bless’ intensifies the certainty of divine blessing. The relative pronoun asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} ‘which’ introduces a defining clause specifying the land. The construct chain nachalah lerishtah {נַחֲלָה לְרִשְׁתָּהּ | naḥ-ă-lāh lə-rî-šṯāh} ‘inheritance to possess it’ frames both the endowment and active takeover of property. English translation preserves the Hebrew sequence by stating the ideal before the causative blessing. |