I would assume that the setumot and petuhot are pre-Masoretic. As for
the
10th commandment, note that in the Ex. 20:17 version there is no
setumah.
Yigal
Shalom,
In our discussion of a few weeks ago on "Ta`am `Elyon of the
Decalogue", I referred to the setumah in Exod. 20:17, which is not
printed in BHS, but still is in Codex Leningradensis (cf. Dothan,
Biblia Hebraica Leningradensis, pp. 109, 1227; I checked it in the
facsimile edition, to be sure).
This tradition is related to the tradition that reads Exod. 20:2-6 /
Deut. 5:6-10 as one commandment (note that there is NO setuma or
petucha found in these verses), which would result otherwise in nine
commandments, but now --with setumah in Ex.20:17 / Deut.5:21-- in ten.
For the division of the text by means of cantilation accents, there are
two systems (found in BHS) which suggest the first verse (20:2/5:6) to
be a separate verse from the following four; and one tradition that
reads 20:2-3/5:6-7 as one verse, separate from the following verses
(though without setuma or petucha). However, there is a third tradition
that even reads the five verses (20:2-6/5:6-10) as one Masoretic verse,
with a revia at the end of the first verse. This tradition is not found
in BHS (nor Codex Leningradensis and other mss), but in many Jewish
Bible editions, starting with Miqra'ot Gedolot (Venice 1526).
Since the last mentioned tradition is an obvious late one, and is in
line with the setuma and petucha tradition in the text, I would suggest
that this setuma-tradition of the ten commandments is also a late
tradition.
Kol Tuv,
Raymond
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