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  • From: Joseph Crea <Joseph.Crea AT worldnet.att.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Job 42.13
  • Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 08:21:08 -0500


Hello Doug!

At 07:54 AM 9/28/99 +0000, Doug Jantz wrote:
> Listers,
> The NIV and NRSV both have 7, with no footnotes to the contrary or any
>notes for textual difficulties. --


CREA
I find nothing in the apparatus of BHS^5 to indicate the presence of
any textual variants for the number of sons. Ditto for the LXX and the
Vulgate. Since the text two verses earlier mentions 14 thousand sheep, it's
possible that the lecturer's eyes "slipped".


With Mettaa,

Joseph Crea
<Joseph.Crea AT worldnet.att.net>





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