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  • From: Numberup AT worldnet.att.net
  • To: Robert Vining <rvining AT log.on.ca>
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: I Samuel 6:19
  • Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:20:41 -0400


It is noted that the Hebrew expression in the MT does not follow the usual
rendering
of numbers in that "70 men" and "50,000 men" are not united by W: but stand
separate.
The larger number may be an interpolation, but one can only guess at its
purpose.

Solomon Landers
Memra Institute for Biblical Research
http://www.memrain.org

Robert Vining wrote:

> Two questions- According to the best rendering of the most reliable
> Hebrew text, did the Lord kill 70 or 50,070 BethShemishites? Did
> the author deliberately choose the impossible number, 50,070 to signal
> the mythical character of the story? per, Samuel Hooke, "Middle Easter
> Mythology", p.154
>
> Robert Vining, Owen Sound, Ontario rvining AT log.on.ca
>
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