And let not the son of the stranger, that adhereth to the Lord, speak, saying: The Lord will divide and separate me from his people. And let not the eunuch say: Behold I am a dry tree.
Ibn Ezra
The son of the stranger. The true proselytes. הַנִּלְוׇה That hath joined himself. It is the past tense with a prefixed ה, which is here equivalent to the relative אשר that; comp. ההלכוא who went (Jos. 10:24). יבדילֵנִי=יבדילַני The Lord will separate me. Comp. יאהבַני (my husband) will love me (Gen. 29:32). I am a dry tree, because I cannot have children.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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