Talmud do Królów II 6:37
Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin
266Babli 107b. Geḥazi was great in Torah, but three things were the matter with him: He was grudging, dissolute in sexual matters, and denied the Resurrection of the Dead. Grudging. When Elisha sat and formulated his teachings, Geḥazi sat outside the door. The students saw him and said, Geḥazi did not find room inside, could we find room inside? His267Elisha’s who had no listeners. statements were said without anybody profiting from them. Once he was removed, what is written there? The prophecy students said to Elisha (etc.,) the place where we are sitting is too narrow for us2682K. 6:1, the verse immediately following Gehazi’s dismissal.. It does not contain the general population269Greek ὄχλος, “multitude”. and the students who were there.
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Tractate Soferim
The following words27Which have an indelicate nuance. are written but not read [in their written form]:28A more polite word is substituted. It is written ba‘folim29Meaning ‘posteriors’. but we read baṭṭeḥorim;301 Sam. 5, 5, emerods. it is written yishgalennah31Meaning ‘rape’. This is the reading of N.Y. and M. V has thishgalennah. but we read yishkabennah;32Deut. 28, 30, shall lie with her. it is written weroba‘ haḳḳab ḥiryonim332 Kings 6, 25, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung. but we read weroba‘ haḳḳab dibyonim;34Meaning ‘and the fourth … of decayed leaves’. it is written memë shinehem35ibid. XVIII, 27, their own water. but we read memë raglehem;36lit. ‘the water of their feet’. it is written ḥorehem37ibid. their own dung. but we read ẓo’atham;38lit. ‘their evacuation’. it is written wayyesimehu lemaḥara’oth39ibid. X, 27, and made it a draught-house. but we read lemoẓa’oth.40lit. ‘retreats’.
If a person uses euphemisms in the section of forbidden marriages41Lev. 18, 6-20. he is silenced.42[The text in V is corrupt and emended in agreement with the Mishnah in Meg. 25a (Sonc. ed., p. 149).] R. Jonah explained:43What is meant here by ‘euphemisms’. [39a] [When one says]44By trying to be more considerate than Scripture. ‘the nakedness of his father’ or ‘the nakedness of his45Instead of thy father and thy mother (Lev. 18, 7). R. Joseph (Meg. loc. cit.) gives a different interpretation, viz. the alteration of nakedness to ‘shame’ (cf. Sonc. ed., p. 151, n. 2). mother’. If a person says46[Or, according to J. Rabbinowitz, Mishnah Megillah, p. 133. ‘And thou shalt not give any of thy seed (to a heathen woman) to become with child in idolatry,] instead of and thou shalt not give of thy seed to set them apart to Molech (Lev. 18, 21). ‘and thou shalt not cause any of thy seed to be conceived by a Gentile woman’,47So altering the true meaning of the text which deals with the worship of Molech (cf. Sonc. ed., Meg. p. 149, n. 3). he is silenced with a rebuke.
If a person uses euphemisms in the section of forbidden marriages41Lev. 18, 6-20. he is silenced.42[The text in V is corrupt and emended in agreement with the Mishnah in Meg. 25a (Sonc. ed., p. 149).] R. Jonah explained:43What is meant here by ‘euphemisms’. [39a] [When one says]44By trying to be more considerate than Scripture. ‘the nakedness of his father’ or ‘the nakedness of his45Instead of thy father and thy mother (Lev. 18, 7). R. Joseph (Meg. loc. cit.) gives a different interpretation, viz. the alteration of nakedness to ‘shame’ (cf. Sonc. ed., p. 151, n. 2). mother’. If a person says46[Or, according to J. Rabbinowitz, Mishnah Megillah, p. 133. ‘And thou shalt not give any of thy seed (to a heathen woman) to become with child in idolatry,] instead of and thou shalt not give of thy seed to set them apart to Molech (Lev. 18, 21). ‘and thou shalt not cause any of thy seed to be conceived by a Gentile woman’,47So altering the true meaning of the text which deals with the worship of Molech (cf. Sonc. ed., Meg. p. 149, n. 3). he is silenced with a rebuke.
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