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Genesis 19:17

וַ יְהִי כְ הֹוצִיאָם אֹתָם הַ חוּצָה וַ יֹּאמֶר הִמָּלֵט עַל נַפְשֶׁךָ אַל תַּבִּיט אַחֲרֶיךָ וְ אַל תַּעֲמֹד בְּ כָל הַ כִּכָּר הָ הָרָה הִמָּלֵט פֶּן תִּסָּפֶה

And he is becoming as their causing to go out אֶת-them the Outside-ward, that he is saying, `Escape upon your breath; do not cause to look your back, and do not set-upright in the whole of the Round.675 Escape the Mountain-ward, lest you are being swept-up.`676


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Swept-up (saphah, #5595). In a deeply poetic prophecy, the head is shaved and the beard is swept up—an obvious symbol of the masculine class:

In the Hot-one of That-one, the master is shaving in a sheath [a.k.a. sword] of the Hired, in a region-beyond the river, in a king of Straight, אֶת-the Head and hair of the Feet; and also he is sweeping-up [saphah] אֶת-the Beard.” Isaiah 7:20 literal

The ideas are interchangeable—catch-up, shave-up, sweep-up.