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  • From: Raymond de Hoop <rdehoop AT keyaccess.nl>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] stuma in Deut 5,21
  • Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:28:35 +0100

On 29 feb 2004 at 0:25 Yigal Levin wrote:

I would assume that the setumot and petuhot are pre-Masoretic. As for the
10th commandment, note that in the Ex. 20:17 version there is no setumah.

Yigal

Shalom,
In our discussion of a few weeks ago on "Ta`am `Elyon of the Decalogue", I referred to the setumah in Exod. 20:17, which is not printed in BHS, but still is in Codex Leningradensis (cf. Dothan, Biblia Hebraica Leningradensis, pp. 109, 1227; I checked it in the facsimile edition, to be sure).

This tradition is related to the tradition that reads Exod. 20:2-6 / Deut. 5:6-10 as one commandment (note that there is NO setuma or petucha found in these verses), which would result otherwise in nine commandments, but now --with setumah in Ex.20:17 / Deut.5:21-- in ten.

For the division of the text by means of cantilation accents, there are two systems (found in BHS) which suggest the first verse (20:2/5:6) to be a separate verse from the following four; and one tradition that reads 20:2-3/5:6-7 as one verse, separate from the following verses (though without setuma or petucha). However, there is a third tradition that even reads the five verses (20:2-6/5:6-10) as one Masoretic verse, with a revia at the end of the first verse. This tradition is not found in BHS (nor Codex Leningradensis and other mss), but in many Jewish Bible editions, starting with Miqra'ot Gedolot (Venice 1526).
Since the last mentioned tradition is an obvious late one, and is in line with the setuma and petucha tradition in the text, I would suggest that this setuma-tradition of the ten commandments is also a late tradition.

Kol Tuv,
Raymond

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