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other in Oen . xi . 10 et seq ., belong in some respects to this class of repetitious . § 419 . 2 . On the want of Uniformity of Style in the Book of Genesis .
A great variety , m point of style , is undoubtedly evident in all the passages which have been already quoted for the purpose of exhibiting the repetitions contained in them . From the beginning of the second narrative of the same occurrences , the name of
God uniformly alternates between Jehovah and Elohim , or Elohim and Jehovah . In the account of the deluge , Jehovah is used in ch . vi . 5—8 ; vii . 1—9 , 16 at the conclusion ; viii . 20—22 ; and Elohim in ch . vi . 9—17 ; vii . 11—16 ; viii . 1—9 , &c . &c .
In the first account of the destruction of Sodom , God is uniformly styled Jehovah ; see ch . xix . 13 , 14 , 16 , 24 , 27 ; whereas in the second he is called Elohim ; see ch . xix . 29 . The first account of the vision of
Abraham , a year before the birth of Isaac , has throughout Elohim ; see ch . xvii . 3 , 7 , 15 , 18 , ] 9 , 22 , 23 ; whereas the second has always Jehovah ; see ch . xviii . 1 , 13 , 14 , 17 , 19 , 4 * \ J -
By occasion of relating the ^ covenant between Laban and Jacob , the name Jehovah \ % introduced in ch . xxxi . 39 ; but in the second account of the same circumstance , see vers . 44—48 , and 50—54 , Elohim 13 used .
In the second derivation of the name of Joseph , Gen . xxx , 24 , the name Jehovah is inserted ; whereas , in the preceding- verse , which contains the first derivation , the name Elohim had been previously used .
1 he genealogy in Gen . x . contains the name Jehovah at the 9 th verse ; but , from various circumstances , we are warranted to conclude , that in the parallel PTri ^ nlnorAr \ n ^» k ^ r \ + 1 *^ ^^»^ . ^ parallel genealogy in chxith
. ., e name tAohtm would have been adopted , had occasion required any reference to be uiade to the Almighty . Nor does this difference in point of expresSlOn
merely attach to the names used tor God , for it is sufficiently evident in the general phraseology and construction of sentences in other passages . r Tim * the accounts of the deluge . voi
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contained in the record which adopts the define of Jehovah , exhibit a very peculiar phraseology , of which no traces are to be met with in the portions relating to the same occurrence under the name of Elohim . In the
former record the inhabitants of the earth , both rational and irrational , are designated , without further addition , as DTK , noro , ttfon , and D'Dtprr spr , see ch . vi . 7 ; vii . 23 ; whereas in the latter , to the same appellations the
word pD 7 is constantly affixed . Again , the record bearing the name Jehovah distinguishes the npni into rnnD and 7 V- \ ntD «^ , ch . vii . 2 , 8 ; viii . 20 ; whilst that bearing Elohim makes no such distinction . The former
comprises every thing m existence under the general term Dip *;! bo ; see ch . vii . 4 , 23 ; whereas the latter uses throughout a totally different
expression for the same object . In reference to the destruction of all created things , the former uniformly and without exception adopts the verb nnD ; see ch . vi . 7 , and ch . vii . 4 , 23 , which is no where to be found in the latter , &c .
&c . On the other hand , the record using the name Elohim contains expressions exclusively peculiar to it . Thus , in alluding to the various creatures inhabiting the earth , it adopts the phrase , ni * iob nona , in . PD *? * prn irU'D ? nD 1 « n ttfEH as in ch . vi . 20 ,
vii . 14 ; and even when the addition of various hinds is omitted , it has the peculiarity of constantly using the phrase " itro hi , and of prefixing the so called beth partitivum to the names of the individual classes which are
enumerated , as in ch . vii . 21 : f ? Dm n * n : n nonnm *\\ y ^ nao hi ymn by yiwn Fnttfn Or as in ch . viii . 17 : ttfonn ^ 11 nonnm * iwn " illo bi ymn by win All the creatures on the face of the earth are expressed by ntio h > D , or by in D n nn nt ^ tt b ^ ; see ch . vi . 13 ,
17 , 19 ; vii . 15 , 16 , 21 ; or by some similar circumlocutory phrase . In reference to the general destruction by means of the deluge , it varies its mode of expression by * O * ll ^ a b ' D Yp ; see ch . vi . 13 , or by IWD . *? Dr (* D * nk «) rvnttm ; sec ch . vi . 13 , 17 , or adopts the verbs jn J , as in ch . vi . 17 , ' vii ; 21 ; and mo , as in ch . vii . 22 , &e . &c .
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. Eichhbrn * * Account of the Book of Genefiis . 537
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1822, page 537, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2516/page/17/
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