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Jungfrau wird am. In der Mischna des jerus. Talmud, des R. Alfasi sowie der ed. princ. ist die Lesart ביום. Das ל׳ ist hier temporal gebraucht, wie Gen. 49,27, Koh. 11,6, wo das לערב dem vorhergehenden בבקר parallel ist. Vielleicht soll auch durch ליום hier angedeutet werden, dass die Hochzeit unter allen Umständen „erst“ am vierten Tage stattzufinden, dass man mit ihr „bis zum“ vierten Tage zu warten hat, selbst wenn sie eigentlich schon früher erfolgen könnte; s. weiter Note 8.

A Midrashic approach: the word לראות, “to see,” means “to see and to be seen.” We read in verse six: ויצא חמור אבי שכם אל יעקב לדבר אתו, Chamor the father of Shechem went out to Yaakov to speak with him.” About this the Tanchuma 7 Vayishlach writes: He said to him: ‘I know that your grandfather Avraham was a prince as the Hittites had acclaimed him as: “you are a prince in our midst” (23,6). I, however, am a prince in the land also. Give the daughter of a prince to a prince (my son) as a wife.” Upon hearing this Yaakov replied: “The title ‘prince’ is applicable only to a שור, ox” (not to a donkey, meaning of the name Chamor.) The Torah had written that Avraham ran to the cattle, (ox) (18,7) and it is written in Proverbs 14,4: ורב תבואות בכח שור, “a bountiful harvest is due to the strength of the ox.” An ox and a donkey cannot mate together. The Torah writes expressly: “you shall not plough with an ox and a donkey together.” In the Book of Prophets (Kings II 14,9) we find the following statement: “The thistle in Lebanon sent the following message to the cedar in Lebanon. ‘give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ But a wild beast in Lebanon went by and trampled down the thistle.” The wild beasts in that parable are the sons of Yaakov who have been compared to wild beasts. In the blessings bestowed on Yaakov’s sons by their father, Yehudah is compared to a lion (49,9); Dan is compared to a snake (49,17); Binyamin is compared to a wolf (49,27); Naftali to a gazelle (49,21). When the Book of Kings spoke about the wild beasts trampling the thistle, the reference was to the sons of Yaakov Shimon and Levi killing the male inhabitants of Shechem. The prophet Hoseah also complains about a similar occurrence in Hoseah 6,9 where he wrote about what would happen to the people of Shechem in his own time because they encouraged depravity. The people would be murdered because they had been guilty of sexual misconduct.

The banner of the camp of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin is to the west, and they shall journey third. For the attribute of strength is third, and it is written about them, Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Your might, etc. (Psalms 83). For Joseph is the firstborn of his ox (Deuteronomy 33:17), who possesses strength and might, and Benjamin is a wolf that tears (Genesis 49:27). And this quality diminishes progressively, as day by day a person’s strength wanes due to the melting of the essential moisture, for the day of death begins from the day of birth. Therefore, their encampment is on the western side, because in that direction the sun continues to diminish.

we found it in the fields of the forest In the boundary of Benjamin, who was likened to a beast of the forest, as it is said (Gen. 49:27): “Benjamin is a devouring wolf.”