Genesis 15:18
בַּ יֹּום הַ הוּא כָּרַת יְהוָה אֶת אַבְרָם בְּרִית לֵ אמֹר לְ זַרְעֲךָ נָתַתִּי אֶת הָ אָרֶץ הַ זֹּאת מִ נְּהַר מִצְרַיִם עַד הַ נָּהָר הַ גָּדֹל נְהַר פְּרָת
In the Hot-one of Himself581 Yahweh has cut off582 אֶת-Raised-Father a cut-out-one583 to say, `To your seed I have given אֶת-Earth of This one, from the river of Dual-Siege until the Great River—the river Phrat,
| 581 | Hebrew בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא. In-the-Hot-one of Himself. Or, The Hot-one of Him. The pronoun he + the definite article the means a very specific person or thing. Translators default to the more ambiguous “that” which is not a relative pronoun at all. Who is “that one” other than “himself”? If not himself than we are left with an unidentified definite hot-one. The covenant is not merely a historical event between Raised-Father and Yahweh but a prophetic event (as with all of these) showing us the covenant he makes us in the Hot-one, our Hot-one (1 Thes. 5:5). |