拉比阿奇瓦 岂不是凭字词相比推出来的么?答曰 拉比犹大·本·贝特拉 不传这一比。那么依他,西罗非哈何以当死?答曰他在那擅自上山顶的人中间(民数记 14:44)。
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革玛拉 问:拉比阿奇瓦 岂不是凭字词相比推出这一层的么?
The Gemara asks: However, didn’t Rabbi Akiva derive this by means of a verbal analogy?
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革玛拉 答:拉比犹大·本·贝特拉 并不传这一处字词相比。
The Gemara answers: Rabbi Yehuda ben Beteira did not learn a verbal analogy.
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拉比犹大·本·贝特拉 没有从夫子们受过这一处字词相比的口传,所以不从 拉比阿奇瓦 所断的。
Rabbi Yehuda ben Beteira had no tradition of this verbal analogy from his teachers, and therefore he disagreed with Rabbi Akiva’s conclusion.
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革玛拉 问:但依 拉比犹大·本·贝特拉,西罗非哈 的罪责又是从哪里推出来的呢?
The Gemara asks: However, according to Rabbi Yehuda ben Beteira, from where was Zelophehad’s liability derived?
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他何以被处死呢?
Why was he executed?
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革玛拉 答:西罗非哈 是在那些「擅敢上山顶去」(民数记 14:44)的人中间——那是探子之罪以后的事。
The Gemara answers: Zelophehad was among those who “presumed to ascend to the top of the mountain” (Numbers 14:44) in the wake of the sin of the spies.