And they spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind, yes, bind you, and give you into their hand, but kill—we will not kill you.” So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.
“bind, yes, bind.” The text uses the figure of speech polyptoton for emphasis.
[For more on polyptoton and the translation, see commentary on Genesis 2:16.]
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