וְנָתַ֧ן אַהֲרֹ֛ן עַל־שְׁנֵ֥י הַשְּׂעִירִ֖ם גּוֹרָל֑וֹת גּוֹרָ֤ל אֶחָד֙ לַיהוָ֔ה וְגוֹרָ֥ל אֶחָ֖ד לַעֲזָאזֵֽל׃
두 염소를 위하여 제비 뽑되 한 제비는 여호와를 위하고 한 제비는 아사셀을 위하여 할지며
Jerusalem Talmud Yoma
25Sifra Aḥare Pereq 2(2); Babli 37a. The Torah said, lots. Lots made of anything26They may be made of any material.. I could think that he should put two lots on one and two lots on the other, the verse says, lots, one lot for the Eternal and one lot for Azazel. I could think that he should give the Eternal’s and Azazel’s on one and the Eternal’s and Azazel’s on the other, the verse says, lot. Is that not the previous argument? It should be so: I could think that after he gave the Eternal’s on the Eternal’s and Azazel’s on Azazel’s, he could go back and switch, the verse says, one lot for the Eternal, there is only one for the Eternal, and one lot for Azazel, there is only one for Azazel.
Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin
HALAKHAH: “One calls in the second [witness],” etc. 150There are two parallels to this text. The one in Ševuˋot 4:1 is almost identical with the present text; the one in Yoma 6:1 is slightly rewritten (or changed in transmission.) The Ševuˋot text seems to be the original of most of the Halakhah.
As explained in the author’s Logical problems in Jewish tradition (in: Confrontations with Judaism, ed. Ph. Longworth, London 1966, pp. 171–196, mainly p. 174), talmudic interpretation of pentateuchal verses operates on a principle of definiteness: The language always is definite. Since the sequence of integers has a smallest but no largest element, an indefinite plural means “two”. Therefore, the explicit mention of “two” always implies some special meaning.Rams151Lev. 16:5,7,8 speaking of the rams used in the service of the Day of Atonement., the minimum of rams are two. Why does the verse say two? That both be equal152Babli Yoma 62b, Sifra Ahare Parašah 2(1)..
As explained in the author’s Logical problems in Jewish tradition (in: Confrontations with Judaism, ed. Ph. Longworth, London 1966, pp. 171–196, mainly p. 174), talmudic interpretation of pentateuchal verses operates on a principle of definiteness: The language always is definite. Since the sequence of integers has a smallest but no largest element, an indefinite plural means “two”. Therefore, the explicit mention of “two” always implies some special meaning.Rams151Lev. 16:5,7,8 speaking of the rams used in the service of the Day of Atonement., the minimum of rams are two. Why does the verse say two? That both be equal152Babli Yoma 62b, Sifra Ahare Parašah 2(1)..