by means of a waw copulative. The waw has no additional semantic value beyond simply linking imperatives with the same addressee. עָלֶיהָ. Oppositional sense of the preposition. Objective pronoun. A similar phrase appears in 3:2 with the notable exception of a different preposition—וּקְרָא אֵלֶיהָ. Sasson has argued that the use of עַל in 1:2 presents a more foreboding nuance, “imposing an (unpleasant) fate upon something” (75). Others have made similar observations in attempting to establish an