Genesis 13:9
is not all the land before you? Please separate from me. If you go to the left, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.
Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
Lo! is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself from me; if thou goest to the left, I will go to the right, and if thou goest to the right, I will go to the left.
Footnotes
| 494 | Left⇒North⇒Hidden Right⇒South⇒Hand Strong’s #8040, semol. properly, dark, hidden (as enveloped ), i.e. The north; hence (by orientation), the left—left (hand, side). This word is sometimes interpreted as “north” (see #6828) but concretely refers to the left-hand side or direction as one faces the front (East, beginning, or Head). Strong’s #3225, yamin. Right hand. This is more specific to the hand than the word for “left” which is not specific to the hand. The Hebrew speaks of “left-handedness” as being “shut up [i.e. hidden] from the right hand”. One of the judges Yahweh raises up is Ehud who is a Benjaminite and left-handed. Benjamin means builder of the right hand. “…Ehud builder of Gera, a Benjamite, a man shut up of his right hand…” Judges 3:15 YLT. All left-handed men are referred to in this way (Judges 20:16). This word is also interpreted directionally as “south” in a few places but this obscures a deeper prophetic sense, And your greater sister Samaria is she, and her built-ones, who is abiding over your left, And your smaller sister, from you, who is abiding from your right hand, Sodom and her built-ones. Ezekiel 16:46 literal Lot ends up in Sodom, and according to Ezekiel, to the Right. Father-of-Tumult’s words are causative Hiphil meaning he causes something to go left or right. In Chapter 20 we find Father-of-Tumult “descending from” the Right [South]. He is apparently remaining where he is for “Samaria” is left/north. Jerusalem is the sister being directly rebuked in between in Ezekiel 16. She is the one with whom Yahweh establishes the everlasting covenant and who “takes” her other two sisters as “built-ones” at the end. She walked more wickedly than her sisters (i.e. the bowels). These words are key to what it means to find wisdom and walk in it: Let not cause to stretch out the right hand and left. Turn aside your foot from evil. Proverbs 4:27 literal A wise heart is for his right hand, and a foolish heart is for his left. Ecclesiastes 10:2 literal Keep in mind that Jesus had three nails pierced into him, one to each hand, and one to both feet—judgment. The front is the “east” from and toward which time flows. Mixing up the meanings of left, right, north, south, obscures the meanings of a great many prophetic passages. And from the earths has gathered them, From east [sunrise] and from west [maarabah, dusk], From north [hidden], and from the sea. Psalm 107:3 YLT Translators like to force “south” out of the word “sea” for the sea is usually interpreted as “west.” Too much interpretation leads to confusion. There is a reason “south” (#8486, teman) is not mentioned in the gathering. Judah and Benjamin (Right Hand) are “south”. The word teman (south) is based on yamin, right hand. In Deuteronomy there is reference to four directions using a different line up of words: and lift up your eyes westward [sea-ward], and northward [hidden-ward], and southward [right hand-ward], and eastward [sunrise-ward], and see with your eyes… Deut. 3:27 YLT Isaiah says, “And your ears are hearing a word behind thee to say, ‘this one is the Way, walk in him.’ When you are causing to the right and when you are causing to the left.” Isaiah 30:21 literal In Ezekiel 21 there is a great end-time “parable of the sword”: “Unite yourself, cause-to-the-right, set yourself, cause-to-the-left, wherever your faces are assigned.” Ezekiel 21:16 literal |