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Album: Behold! |
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Track: 10. ’Imri Nà’ - 1:49 |
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Music by Linda Hirschhorn © 1994
Lyrics: Genesis 12:13
Sung by Linda Hirschhorn
Contrary to most interpretations which either try to let Abram "off the hook"
or vilify him for "selling his wife,"
I believe this passage is a true love story.
Abram, faced with certain death
and the kidnapping of his beautiful wife and soul mate Sarai into a pagan culture,
thinks quickly on his feet and trusts in God.
He tells Sarai to pretend that she is his sister
(using Achoti "my sister" as the code word for 'beloved' as it is in the Song of Songs)
whereby they are both saved.
אִמְרִי־נָא אֲחֹתִי אָתּ
לְמַעֲן יִיטַב־לִי בַעֲבוּרֵךְ
וְהָיְתָה נַפְשִׁי בִּגְלָלֵךְ
’Imri-nà’ ’akhoti ’àt
lema‘an yitav-li ba‘avuréch
vehàitàh nafshi biglàléch
[Say, please, that you are my sister,
so that it may be well with me for your sake,
and my soul will live because of you.]
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© 1994 Linda Hirschhorn, Kehila Publications (BMI) ℗  Oyster Albums, P.O. Box 3929, Berkeley, CA 949703
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ISRC: US-CGH-05-75106 |