Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 23/03/2004 08:38, David Kimbrough (CLWA) wrote:

> Yigal,
>
> Thank you for your reply, it was quite informative.  However my question was
> a bit more narrowly focused.  In the text I was looking at, the was a sof
> pasuq at the end of each verse of the traditional "commandments" in
> Deuteronomy.   My question was, do other MT MSS have a sof pasuq in the same
> places?  The footnote I read was more than a bit vague.  Is it that there
> are no sof pasuq at the end of each of these sections or is it that there is
> a different practice of using the sof pasuq to identify the end of the
> verse.  To put it a different way, Is everyone looking at identical MT MSS
> and simply numbering the verses differently based different philosophy or
> are there differences in the MSS which give rise to different versification?
> Thanks again.
>
> David Eugene Kimbrough
> dkimbrough AT clwa.org
>
>
>  
In Codex Leningradensis there is a clear sof pasuq, and a space 
(interpreted by BHS as setuma), after each of commandments 6-9 in Deut 
5. There is also a double set of accents. The Biblica Rabbinica, the 
early 16th century printed text, is the same.

I will send to David and Yigal offlist a scan of the relevant parts.

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