. Our Bible and the ancient manuscripts : being a history of the text and its translations. R Ji $ n*i. ?mj THE SAMARITAN PENTATEUCH. 47 are of real value. The editors of the YarionTm Bible give thirty-five variations of the Samaritan text in the five books of thePentateuch as being either equal or superior to the Hebrewreadings. Among these may be mentioned, for the sake ofexample, Gen. 4. 8, where the Samaritan has Cain said toAbel his brother, Let us go into the field; 47. 21, As forthe people he made slaves of them, instead of he removedthem to cities ; Exod. 12. 40, the 430 years of the s
. Our Bible and the ancient manuscripts : being a history of the text and its translations. R Ji $ n*i. ?mj THE SAMARITAN PENTATEUCH. 47 are of real value. The editors of the YarionTm Bible give thirty-five variations of the Samaritan text in the five books of thePentateuch as being either equal or superior to the Hebrewreadings. Among these may be mentioned, for the sake ofexample, Gen. 4. 8, where the Samaritan has Cain said toAbel his brother, Let us go into the field; 47. 21, As forthe people he made slaves of them, instead of he removedthem to cities ; Exod. 12. 40, the 430 years of the sojourningof the children of Israel are said to have been in Egyptand in Canaan (thus agreeing with Gal. 3. 17), instead of inEgypt only ; Num. 4. 14, the following words are added at theend of the verse, And they shall take a cloth of purple, and coverthe laver and his foot, and put it into a covering of seals skins,and shall put them upon a frame ; and in Dent. 32. 35 the firsthalf of the verse runs against the day of vengeance and recom-pence ; against the time when their foot shall slip. These a
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