English: “And Hashem will scatter you among all the peoples from one end of the earth to the other” — complete scattering, without a fixed place. This teaches that you will have no place of which you can say “here I will dwell”; rather from one end to the other you will be a wanderer.
The extreme language “from one end of the earth to the other” is taken as total displacement with no residual homeland base.
Type of Learning
Custom (phrase-by-phrase or midrashic expansion of the verse).
What Is Learned
The midrash extracts concrete legal, historical or theological referents from the wording of the passuk, giving the brief biblical language a fuller operational meaning.