Biblical Hebrew Forum

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Deuteronomy 9:6
The Vulgate reads: scribesque ea in limine et ostiis domus tuae.
With my limited Latin skill, I think this means: And write them on the  
threshhold and the gates of your house.
 
Q #1:  Does this reflect a direct translation from the MT?  Or  would the MT 
be translated as "... in limine domus tuae et in ostiis  tuis"?  (As I said, 
my Latin skills are limited, so perhaps the latter is  simply bad Latin.)
 
Q #2:  In reference to "your gates" Robert Alter, in his new  translation of 
the Pentateuch (p.913): "These  would be the gates of the city, since houses 
did not have gates.”  Does the Vulgate contradict this?  If so, is the 
Vulgate 
factually  incorrect, as Alter seems to suggest?
 
Thanks.
Hayyim