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Can a woman encompass a man?
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January 8, 2024 - 4:04 am

How long will you waver,
O faithless daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth:
a woman encompasses[e] a man.
Jeremiah 31:22

Read in a commentary that this verse is hard to understand. A note in the Nrsvue “31.22 Meaning of Heb uncertain”. So there is that.

I couldn’t help tying it back to an earlier verse, possibly making an inclusio over the larger text of Jeremiah 30:1-31:22.

Ask now and see:
Can a man bear a child?
Why then do I see every man
with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor?
Jeremiah 30:6

Both lines seem to contest the very nature of man and woman in a patriarchal society.

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January 8, 2024 - 10:02 am
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January 8, 2024 - 5:51 pm

Thanks for that.
Some commentaries are… more useful than others.

I wonder if you would know why the vast reordering of Jeremiah’s chapters by the LXX compared to what we see in our Bibles. This reorganization has to be the most visible and large scale difference between the LXX and our OT, no??

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January 8, 2024 - 6:53 pm
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