Clever translation
Posted on February 1st, 2007 by cyberdov
Tongue-in-cheek, but clever (From: Adderabbi, and Moishe Potemkin in a comment):
When it came to the plague of lice, the Egyptian magicians said ‘etzba Elokim hi’. This is normally translated ‘it is the finger of God’. If I was doing the translating (and was given poetic/Midrashic license) I would translate it as ‘God is giving us [...]
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