Shalom Michael,
I agree with you that there are ten words to be found in these texts.
Yet,
as I wrote before, the division of the text into ten words offers some
problems
and there are different delimitations of these "ten words" (how should
the first
two "words" be divided?). Moreover, there is at least one tradition of
Masoretic
accentuation that delimits _nine_ units in these texts, by reading the
first two
"words" as one word. This problem might be solved by means of petuchot
and setumot, (an extra division in the final "word"), but it is not in
line with
the accentuation system.
Kol tuv,
Raymond de Hoop
Op 3 mrt 2004 om 2:57 heeft Michael Millier het volgende geschreven:
Therefore any stabs at
*nine* (by you or anyone else) are inorganic to the
text(s) of the Torah.