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Genesis 12:3

And may I kneel those kneeling you, and him-who-is-disesteeming you I am execrating,470 and have kneeled in you the whole of the families of the Red-one.

Footnote:

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The shift in the text from the plural “those” to the singular “him” is deliberate. “him who disesteems you” is translated from the verb participle meqalel. The Meqalel is spoken of in a few other places – Jeremiah 15:10, Proverbs 20:20, 1 Sam. 3:13. Particularly the builder of Shelomith (Leviticus 24:14, 23) of the tribe of Dan, the serpent over the Way (Gen. 49:17).