Vocabulary
Passover (Exodus 12:1-51)
The Passover or Pesach is one of the most important parts of the whole Bible. In this text, we encounter a verb pesach פסח. Its particular occurrence is at Ex 12:13 (in the form of Qal perfect וּפָסַחְתִי), where its meaning as "skip", "spare" is also defined. This meaning is also obvious from the...
Decalogue (Exodus 20:1-17)
Ten Commandments belong among the most known texts of the Bible. However, it is not so much known that this text, in fact, can not be literary called as commandments. This is suggested both by the context, which speaks of Decalogue as "words" (Ex 20:1) or as "ten words" (Ex 34:28), and the...