| 32. Linguistic Exegesis The verse presents parallel prohibitions introduced by velo tissa'u {וְלֹֽא־תִשְׂא֤וּ | wə-lō-tis-sʾāʾū} ‘and you shall not bear’ and velo tamutu {וְלֹ֥א תָמֽוּתוּ | wə-lō-tā-mū-tū} ‘and you shall not die’. The first prohibition is qualified by a circumstantial infinitive clause baharimkhem {בַּהֲרִֽימְכֶ֥ם | ba-harîm-ḵem} ‘when you lift up’, which frames the act that would incur liability. Each direct object is marked by et {אֶת־ | ʾet} to specify cultic items: et-chelbo {אֶת־חֶלְבּ֖וֹ | ʾet-ḥel-bō} ‘its fat’ and wə-et-kadshei {וְאֶת־קָדְשֵׁ֧י | wə-ʾet-qā-ḏə-šê} ‘and the holy things’ of bnei-yisrael {בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל | bənê-yis-rāʾēl} ‘the sons of Israel’. A chiastic pattern links the prohibition of profaning (lo techallelu {לֹא תְּחַלְּלוּ | lōʾ tə-ḥal-lə-lū} ‘you shall not profane’) with the threat of death, reinforcing the cause-and-effect relationship through rhythmic legal parallelism. |