| 6. Linguistic Exegesis The command begins with the geographic phrase kol yoshvei ha-har {כָּל־יֹשְׁבֵי הָהָר | kol yōšəḇê hāhār} ‘all the inhabitants of the hill country’, followed by the boundary min ha-lebanon ʿad misrephot mayim {מִן־הַלְּבָנֹן עַד־מִשְׂרְפֹת מַיִם | mîn hā-lə-bā-nôn ʿaḏ miśrə-pôṯ māyim} ‘from Lebanon to Misrephoth-Maim’. The emphatic pronoun anokhi {אָנֹכִי | ʼānō-khî} prefacing orishem {אוֹרִישֵׁם | ōrî-šêm} ‘I will dispossess them’ highlights divine agency in the causative Hiphil form. The imperative hapileha {הַפִּלֶהָ | hap̄î-lê-hā} ‘divide it’ or ‘allot it’ marks the prescribed method of land allocation. The phrase le-yisrael be-nachalah {לְיִשְׂרָאֵל בְּנַחֲלָה | lə-yiśrā-ʼēl bə-na-ḥa-lāh} expresses legal transfer ‘to Israel as an inheritance’, and kaasher tsvivtikha {כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוִּיתִיךָ | kă-ʼă-šer ṣivvîṯî-khā} ‘as I have commanded you’ closes the compliance clause, preserving the Hebrew list structure and emphatic divine self-identification. |