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The syntax makes no sense, and the commentators suggest all sorts of corrections in the order of the words or the letters, and scholars emend the text \u2013 anything so that we might find some logic in the terrible waterfall of anger, where images upon images are flung at us, incomprehensible but horrific nonetheless. &#8220;They commit adultery, all of them, Like an oven fired by a baker&#8221; he exclaims in his wrath (verse 4). Committing adultery \u2013 like an oven!?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The only picture that I can conjure up is from my distant childhood, of the white bakery in the kibbutz of my youth, with the bakers, wearing white aprons around their waists, descending the stairs to slide large trays of the tastiest <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>challot<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that I have ever eaten, into the ovens: blazing, comforting, almost caressing with their heat. 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