Word: issachar
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...Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, the army commander in central Israel ordered a 5 p.m. curfew enforced in Arab villages near the Jordan border. Colonel Issachar Shadmi told Major Shmuel Malinki of the border police that this order was to be strictly enforced, that any villager found abroad after the curfew hour was to be shot. In midafternoon Major Malinki passed the order along to his company commanders, adding, "May Allah have mercy on their souls." On the stroke of 5, Lieut. Gabriel Dehan deployed his constables in three groups around the Arab village of Kfar Kassim...
...concentrates its bald chronicle of events into a human reality. No strict-interpretationist of the Scriptures, he does not hesitate to contradict or supplement the original account in matters of minor fact. Thus he says that Jacob's only daughter Dinah was older, not younger, than her brothers Issachar and Zebulun; suggests that Isaac was well aware that he was blessing Jacob instead of Esau; asserts that Jacob demonstrably served 25, not 20 years, with Laban; supplies Rachel's age at her death (41). He puts in Isaac's dying mouth a babbled prophecy that stretches back...
...twelve tribes of Isreal are: Reuben, Simeon, Judah Issachar, Ephraim, Benjamin. Zebulun, Manasseh, Dan, Asher, Naphtali...
...dare hope for no such good fortune. The toiling editor may, for all time to come, so far as we can see, be likened to Issachar, of whom it is written, "Yea, but he shall be likened unto an ass bending beneath two burdens," -stop a minute; there is something in that quotation that seems hardly to apply to the point in question; let us say, for instance, porter instead of ass; then the scriptural words will suit our case exactly...
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