There are two issues: 1. What the true original text said 2. What the
proper translation of the text should be.
... As to the DSS text, if you look at it and
compare the way the yod is written and the vov is written, you will
see that stylistically there are reasons to accept the text as having
an elongated yod. If you look at every yod in the text it is not a
short stroke but a short stroke with a 'hat'. (A short line to the
left.) The vovs do not have this. IF we look at the letter in
question, it has this hat. I believe that shows that it is a yod. The
translator of the LXX/GB may have had the same type of text, or even
one with the misplaced aleph, and that is the source of his translation.
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