Genesis 4:3
And he is becoming from the cut-off159 of the days, and Spearhead is coming in from the fruit159b of the Red-one an gift/tribute to Yahweh.
Footnote:
| 159 | Strong’s #7093. qets. a cut-off. Noun often translated as “end”. Derived from #7112, qatsats, to cut off, hew off, chop off. As in cutting off the hand (2 Sam. 4:2), cutting a rope in two (Psa. 129:4), cutting off hair (Jer. 9:26), etc. The sense of this word therefore is very clearly a "termination point" or "cut off" kind of end. To say “the end of several days” doesn’t make much sense. For what is the “end” of several days? The reading, like so many, was taken for idiom, as though this were modern English meaning "after a few days." And thus it was passed over, like so many verses, as nothing relevant, but just pointless wordy clauses. But why bother writing pointless words by hand, unless it was not pointless? It would make more sense, and the Hebrew vocabulary is available, for the author to write, “after several days” just as he does regarding duplications in genealogies. “Days” however encode an enigma as in, “sons of Day” mentioned by Paul in 1 Thes 5:5 and “those days have a cut-off” (Matt. 24:22). |