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Genesis 20:1

וַ יִּסַּע מִ שָּׁם אַבְרָהָם אַרְצָה הַ נֶּגֶב וַ יֵּשֶׁב בֵּין קָדֵשׁ וּ בֵין שׁוּר וַ יָּגָר בִּ גְרָר

And Father-of-Tumult is pulling-up from there earth-ward of the Dry-South,696 and is sitting between Holy697 and between Wall and is offroading in Dragged.


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LeftDown, RightUp

South, we learned, is “Right”, and now we see it also means “upward”. At this point you can be thinking about the Kingdom of Israel dividing into two—the “North” and the “South” a.k.a. “Left” and “Right”, upward, and downward. The upside of Right and downside of Left is illustrated in the staging of the leaders next to Ezra over his right hand and from the left hand,

Ezra the Counter is standing-firm over a tower of wood, which they have made to the Word. And they are standing-firm beside-him Gift-of-Yah, and Report, and Yah-Answers, and Flame-of-Yah, and My-Portion-is-Yah, and Work-of-Yah, over his right hand. And from his left Ransom-of-Yah, and Who-Which-God, and My-King-Yah, and Enriched, and Plotting-Judge, Yah-Remembers, Allied.” Nehemiah 8:4 literal

Perhaps the reason the vernacular “left hand” doesn’t exist in Hebrew but only “left” is that the left hand gets cut-off…