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Rashi on Leviticus 20:20

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20 โ€Ž[1] ืืฉืจ ื™ืฉื›ื‘ ืืช ื“ื“ืชื• AND IF A MAN SHALL LIE WITH HIS AUNTโ€ฆ [THEY SHALL DIE CHILDLESS] โ€” This verse is intended to teach that the "excision" mentioned above (18:29, where "all these abominations includes the union prohibited in v. 14 of that chapter) consists in their (the offendersโ€™) passing from this world childless.

โ€Ž[2] ืขืจื™ืจื™ื โ€” Translate this as the Targum renders it: ื‘ืœื ื•ืœื“, childless. Similar is, (Genesis 15:2) "and I will pass away childless (ืขืจื™ืจื™)โ€. If he has children he will bury them (i. e. they will die during his life-time); if he has no children when this sin is committed he will die childless (he will beget no children afterwards). That is why Scripture varies the expression in these two verses (this and the following) here stating ืขืจื™ืจื™ื ื™ืžืชื•, "they shall die childless", and there ืขืจื™ืจื™ื ื™ื”ื™ื•, "they shall be childless". The expression ืขืจื™ืจื™ื ื™ืžืชื• implies: if he has any children at the time he commits the sin, he shall have none remaining when he dies because he will bury them during his lifetime; ืขืจื™ืจื™ื ื™ื”ื™ื• on the other hand, implies: if he has no children at the time when he commits the sin, he shall remain all his life just as he was then (Sifra, Kedoshim, Chapter 12 7; Yevamot 55a).

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Version: Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934

Source: https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH001969084

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