Vayelech: I know their Nature (archival)
Vayelech: I know their Nature
21 then it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are come upon them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed; for I know their imagination how they do even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.' (JPS)
I don't like the punctuation, it removes the ambiguity. Does Gd know their imagination in that they will sin ( certainly that is part of it). But does the verse also mean that Gd knows their nature, that they will not lose the song.
The nature of Jews - scholars, they don't lose their writings, they maintain their writings intact ( in the original language and song) [ they are so cheap, they won't throw away a scrap of parchment]
The trope mark on yitzro is a revii, a sign that links the word to the phrase before and the phrase after.
There is also a shared tzadi raish between yitzro and tzaroth in this pasuk. The nature is a product of their being drawn through the processes that created them ( Mitzraim). That is why they won't throw away the [formative] curses.
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