Hi Sandy,
The following quote from the Tractate Berakoth proves that the land outside Palestine was considered the Diaspora:
"R. Safra said: R. Abbahu used to relate that when Hananiah the son of R. Joshua's brother went down to the Diaspora,5 he began to intercalate the years and fix new moons outside Palestine. 63a
"Eighty years before the destruction of the Temple it was decreed that neighbouring countries of Palestine5 were to be regarded as ritually unclean.6
(5) Syria and Asia Minor. (6) One who went outside Palestine was regarded as defiled and on returning had to undergo the usual process of purification. According to Graetz this measure was intended to stem the migration of the people, and in particular of the priests, from the Holy Land." 8b
(5) Syria and Asia Minor. (6) One who went outside Palestine was regarded as defiled and on returning had to undergo the usual process of purification. According to Graetz this measure was intended to stem the migration of the people, and in particular of the priests, from the Holy Land." 8b
When you consider Acts 21:24 and Numbers 6:9 side by side, you should be able to see that a Nazarite defied by the dead was required to submit to the process of purification before he renewed his vow. On the seventh day of purification, he shaved his dead after being cleansed.
Acts 21:24
24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law. (KJV)
Num 6:9
9 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. (KJV)
24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law. (KJV)
Num 6:9
9 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. (KJV)
2416 chay (khah'-ee);
from 2421; alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively:
KJV-- + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life (-time), live (-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
According to the above definition "chay" can mean "living". You were the one that insisted that it can only be translated "fresh", not I.
Sandy, the Septuagint translates the Hebrew phrase as "living water, zao hudor". So, the Rabbis who translated the Hebrew into the Greek do not support your idea that we must use "fresh" rather than "living". The same Greek phrase is used in John's Gospel:
John 4:10
10 Yahushua answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of ELOHIM, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. (KJV)
10 Yahushua answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of ELOHIM, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. (KJV)
Sincerely, Spying
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