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23:4 \u201cThough I walk in the vale of death\u2019s shadow, I fear no harm, for You are with me. Your rod and Your staff–it is they that console me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The intent of the translation here is not to avoid the virtually proverbial \u201cin the shadow of the valley of death\u201d but rather to cut through the proliferation of syllables in the King James Version, however eloquent, and better approximate the compactness of the Hebrew–<\/span>begey tsalmawet<\/span><\/em>. Though philologists assume that the Masoretic <\/span>tsalmawet<\/em> <\/span>is actually a misleading vocalization of <\/span>tsalmut<\/span><\/em>–probably a poetic word for \u201cdarkness\u201d with the <\/span>ut<\/em> <\/span>ending simply a suffix of abstraction–the traditional vocalization reflects something like an orthographic pun or a folk etymology (<\/span>tsel<\/span><\/em> meaning \u201cshadow\u201d, <\/span>mawet<\/span><\/em> means \u201cdeath\u201d), so there is justification in retaining the death component.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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