Biblical Hebrew Forum

[ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk (Ben Crick)]

On Wed  8 Feb 2006 (11:17:46), mabernathy AT isot.com wrote:
> I note that a few translations read "you will not die" instead of 
> following the Massoretic text "we will not die."
> The Net Bible references an ancient scribal tradition for this
> translation. How strong is this tradition?

 The App: Crit: in the Rudolf Kittel BHS offers the footnote
 Lo' TarMuWT (Tiq Soph). i.e. Tiqqun Sopherim, "Scribal correction".

 The Revised English Bible translates "who is immortal" with the
 marginal comment "1:12 who is immortal: prob. original rdg; altered
 in Heb. to we shall not die."

 In context the scribal correction seems to make better sense.
 But was it not Westcott and Hort's dictum that the more difficult
 reading is more likely to have been the orginal?

 Shalom
 Ben
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