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1) [line 8] PISUK TE'AMIM - [for teaching] the cantillations with which the verses are read

2) [line 23] HAVLA'AH HI - the wages for Shabbos are absorbed in and are an indiscernible part of the wages that are paid for the rest of the year

3a) [line 2] SHABBOS - a week
b) [line 2] SHAVU'AH - a seven-year Shemitah cycle

4) [line 5] D'YIFNU AVHAS'HON D'YENUKEI L'MITZVASA D'SHABATA - so that the children's fathers should be free and busy themselves with the Mitzvah of Shabbos

5) [line 7] V'YAKIR ALEIHON ALMA - they feel heavy from eating a big meal
6) [line 8] SHINUY VESES TEHCILAS CHOLI ME'AYIM - a change in one regular pattern [of eating] is the beginning of bowel diseases

7) [line 14] "VA'YIKRE'U...MEFORASH, V'SOM SECHEL..." - "So they read [in the book, in the Torah of HaSh-m] clearly, and gave the interpretation, [so that they understood the reading.]" (Nechemyah 8:8) - According to the Derashah of Rav regarding the word "Meforash" (clearly) in this verse, the Targum existed at the time of Nechemyah, hundreds of years before Onkelos ha'Ger.

8) [line 17] MIKRA - the traditional pronunciation of the words
9) [line 18] PISUK TE'AMIM - the cantillations with which the verses are read
10) [line 19] MASOROS - the traditional spelling of the Scriptural text
11) [line 20] MIKRA SOFRIM - the way the early teachers taught us to read the words, i.e. if the word Eretz comes in the very middle of a verse (with an Esnachta under it) it is read "Aretz," and the word "Mitzrayim" is read as such and not "Mitzrim"

12) [line 20] ITUR SOFRIM - (a) words that come to beautify the text (RAN); (b) letters that seem to be purposely missing from words (TOSFOS, ROSH)

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