Yes.

So a little bit different.

Of course, it's a luminary.

They were worn like a luminary.

So we can see why people would go to shine.

But the fact is that verb occurs 20 times and it always means to warn.

There's a noun from the same root that occurs once in Ezekiel 8 and is translated as referring to a shining personage.

Why are these passages relevant for what has just occurred over the past 11 chapters?

And then the idea of clinging,

what is that? So it's interesting.

That verb is used like 55 times in the Old Testament, but it's never referring to marriage or marriage relationships.

It's certainly not referring to sexuality.

If we really are careful about our exegesis, which of course we want to be, we have to evaluate it within the kinds of contexts in which it occurs.

So, for instance, Genesis 2.24 features the kal stem with a personal singular subject and a personal singular indirect object, neither one being God.

So we're setting up our exegesis very carefully to match kinds of contexts.

So this is the