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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Why would the scribal authorities find this objectionable?
  • Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:13:16 +0100

GENESIS 18:22

"the Lord yet stood before Abraham" and "Abraham yet stood before the Lord"
the first sentence being substituted for the latter in the masoretic notes.

I do not understand why the scribes would object to the first rendering?

Chris Watts.





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