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Genesis 1:27

And he is cutting-out elohim אֶת-the Red-one48 in his shadow-phantom, in the shadow-phantom of elohim he has cut-out אֶת-him, a remembered-one and a pierced-one he has cut-out אֶת-themselves.50

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him. Strong’s #853. The word אֶת is called “the mark of the accusative”. It is prefixed as a rule to definite nouns. According to the Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon it is “only used with suffix, when it is desired to emphasize the pronoun” Therefore the Hebrew otow here emphasizes the accusative masculine object “him”, i.e himself. These lines are one of the deepest riddles in the book. Can you figure it out?