Two unrelated points...
VA'YITMAHUMA: Well-known word from Vayeira with a Shalshelet. The first HEI
with a SH'VA NACH and the second HEI with the MAPIK are BOTH sounded (the
same). HEI without a vowel or MAPIK is silent. But with a vowel or MAPIK is
sounded.
U'L'NINI: NIN in the Torah means son. In modern Hebrew it
means great-grandson.
...LI U'L'NINI U'L'NECHDI: means, to me, and my children and
my grandchildren.
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