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摘要
- Brown is not a colour word in biblical Hebrew. The King James uses it in Genesis 30 for Jacob’s sheep, translating chum, a rare word meaning dark or dusky.
- What is everywhere is earth. Genesis 2:7 contains a pun English cannot carry: the man is 亚当 and the ground is adamah.
- Dust runs in two directions at once — Abraham calling himself dust and ashes, and Psalm 103:14 giving “he remembers that we are dust” as the reason for God’s compassion.
- Jeremiah is sent to watch a potter and sees a failure: the pot is marred, and the clay is not thrown out (18:4).
- 2 Corinthians 4:7 puts the treasure in jars of clay deliberately, so nobody mistakes the packaging for the contents.
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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway, with the King James “brown” at Genesis 30:32 noted (Genesis 2:7; 3:19; 18:27; 30:32-40; Psalm 103:13-14; Isaiah 64:8; Jeremiah 18:1-4; Jonah 3:8; 2 Corinthians 4:7). The rarity of Hebrew chum and the adam/adamah wordplay are given as in standard lexicons and commentary.
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