| 23. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with a source phrase, u-mim-matteh-dan {וּמִמַּטֵּה־דָן | ū-mim-maṭ-ṭēh-dān} ‘and from the tribe of Dan’, marking the next tribal group in an ongoing allocation list. The remainder is an asyndetic sequence of marked objects introduced by the object particle ʾet {אֶת | ʾeṯ}, which signals that the city names are items being assigned, even though the governing verb is understood from the larger distribution context. Each city, ʾelteqēʾ {אֶלְתְּקֵא | ʾel-tə-qēʾ} and gib-bə-ṯōn {גִּבְּתֹן | gib-bə-ṯōn}, is paired with wə-ʾeṯ-mig-rā-šehā {וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁהָ | wə-ʾeṯ-mig-rā-šehā} ‘and its pastureland(s)’, creating a repeated “city + pastureland(s)” pattern. English rendering keeps the list-like structure while supplying minimal linkage (“and”) so the coordinated items read naturally without adding a new action beyond the implied allotment. |