Rupert and Bekhor Shor 1

[...]in no way was it necessary to have repeated recourse to the tree as a temporary drug for preserving life (as some think), but once it was taken the body would live forever.19 The version of the Vulgate that Rupert used read verses 22 and 23 as if they were one: "In order that Adam not stretch out his hand and take from the Tree of Life, God sent him out of the Garden." 27 If indeed his land was Chaldea, his family was now in Haran, that is: it had reached Syria in its flight. [...]the fact that the Lord said, "Leave the land," and added, "and your family" is the same as if He were to say, Just as you have physically left Chaldea, do so now also in your mind so that you will never return there, and in addition leave where you now live, 'leave your family'. The divine King and His attendants standing beside him and guarding him! Because it is said, "Jacob went on his way, [and angels of God encountered him (13 lyiQ'l)]." Abraham: "And he proceeded (/ayelekh lemas a'av)" (Gn 13:3); Israel: "These were the marches (nas'e) of the children of Israeli" (Nm 33:1).57 In the way of midrash, every verse cited from the story in Genesis 12 has its mirror image in a verse related to the Exodus. [...]there is always a shared word in the juxtaposed verses, something evident even in the English translation above.