” likea boat held fast to the dock.Fastcan also mean “soundly,” as insomeone who is fast asleep. These uses are closely related tosteadfast,anotherfastcompound which means “firmly attached,”“permanent,” and “not fluctuating.”
There was one word in the sentence that would have made it obvious, had the translation of the text not been so poor. That translation was missing ביום (b’yom) as in: “ON THE DAY that I brought them them of Egypt” would have been the clincher, had you seen it. But ...
Acute Model In the Yom Kippur or Ninth of Av model, an almost 25 h fast (no eating, nor drinking) has been assessed [9]. The mean changes in protein (+9%) and lactose (−6%) were smaller than the SD observed in samples collected before fasting (18.9 g/L and 8.46 µmol/L, ...