Midrash (rabbinic interpretive commentary) Read-but-not-Written I) But [the children of] Benjamin would not yield (Judges 20:13). The word the children of is missing, for they did an abomination, disgrace, and lewd act in Israel, and they deserve to have their descent from the righteous Benjamin retracted, and to separate them from his generations and inclusions, and they did not call them children of Benjamin for they did not yield to listen to their brothers, and in the remainder of places where they are called children of Benjamin it gave them hope and a path of repentance that they may turn from their evil deeds and repent and be called as their brothers' names the children of Benjamin. II) On his way to restore his monument at the River [Euphrates] (II Samuel 8:3). It is written lacking in the book of Samuel, for this verse is mentioned in two places—in Samuel and Chronicles (I Chronicles 18:3), and the verse is said in two times and regarding two occasions (matters). Firstly it says to restore his monument at the river, and secondly to set up his monument at the river Euphrates. Though it is not the business of the first time to make known if it is the Euphrates or the Nile, it was written elsewhere, so Euphrates is read. III) Like when [a man] asks of the word (II Samuel 17:23). The word man is removed from within the verse, for a human is removed from God, and thus it says (Psalms 8:6) You have removed him slightly from God , and his word will not come about like the word of God, thus the word man is removed from within the verse and suspended on the verse from the margin. If he had been meritorious in his deeds and done them for the sake of Heaven, his advice would be as the word of God. IV) Because [thus] the king's son is dead (II Samuel 18:20). The word thus is lacking, because of the evil of his deeds, for he sought to kill his father and cover up the matter, and came to fornicate with his father's concubines. Though Joab said because thus the king's son is dead, the word thus is suspended on the margin, because the king's son was killed for his wrongs, but thus can mean right as in rightly have the daughters of Ẓelopheḥad spoken (Numbers 27:7) or "what you are saying is right." (Genesis 44:10). V) And Adrammelekh and Śaretser [his sons] struck him down with the sword (II Kings 19:37). What is written within, but not read on the margin: And Adrammelekh and Śaretser struck him down. But that does not let us know who had struck him down, whether their sons or others, so his sons is suspended on the margins to let all those on earth know the vengeance of God against him, and to fulfill regarding him Behold I will raise a great evil against you from your own house (II Samuel 12:11). VI) The zeal of the LORD (II Kings 19:31) is written, but a continuation of of Hosts is suspended to it in the margin, for great vengeance the LORD did against him first, but after that by the hands of the hosts of His angels. And thus it says And an angel of God came out and struck the camp of Assyria, a hundred and eighty-five thousand (II Kings 19:35), thus it is suspended outside to make known both of the vengeances that God avenged. VII) Behold days are [coming], declares the LORD (Jeremiah 31:38) It is written lacking: For behold days are, declares the LORD. This is an obscure matter, and we could say that this is tidings for far-off times and many days, just as we read coming from the margin, bringing near the end-times and bringing near the tidings of reading coming in the commandments of the prophet. May the Merciful One accelerate the end-times. VIII) Let there be [for her] no escape (Jeremiah 50:29), it is written wwithin lacking, for Babylon is the seat of sovereignty and the house of royalty, and thus it says (Daniel 4:27) Is that not great Babylon, which I built to be a royal residence? And in it the kingdom of Israel sank and her kingdom was annulled, and Jeremiah told the remnant of Israel that the vengeance of Adonai would be avenged upon it in this world and in the future, so it is written Let there be no escape in this world, and continued on the margins Let there be no escape for her in the future. IX) All that you say [to me] I will do (Ruth 3:5) From the way this is written, it can be determined that Naomi commanded Ruth two times: the first time Ruth said all that you say I will do, and on the second command she said all that you say to me I will do, so it was suspended on the margin. X) For he said [to me], Do not go empty to your mother-in-law (Ruth 3:17) From the way this is written, we can learn that Ruth told Naomi her mother-in-law this matter two times—the first time she did not say to me,, but the second time she did say to me, so it was suspended on the margin.