From phma@oltronics.net Mon Oct 15 20:31:37 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 16 Oct 2001 03:31:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 66123 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2001 03:31:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 16 Oct 2001 03:31:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.239) by mta2 with SMTP; 16 Oct 2001 03:31:10 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id B10F93C504; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 23:27:28 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Bulrushes Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 23:27:22 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01101523272212.02047@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat I am attempting to translate Exodus 2 and am getting lost in the bulrushes. So far I have this; 2:3. .iba'o lenu ka'e mipri kei ko'e lebna le spatrskirpo lanku gi'e badgau lo tarla joi pesxu ly gi'e nerpu'i le cifnu ly gi'e punji ly le misryplespa ne'a la nil. DR says the basket was made of bulrushes and placed in the sedges; NIV says it was made of papyrus and placed in the reeds. The Hebrew says the tevah (which is the same word used for Noah's Ark) was made of gome' and placed in the suf (which is the same word as in Yam Suf, Sea of Reeds). Confusing the issue further, some websites I looked up these plants on say that the bulrush is a sedge (not a rush, despite the name) of the genus Scirpus, but one says it's a Typha, which is a cattail (not a rush either). So what are these plants? phma