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JUDAICA - Wisdom In Torah

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exodus, book of<br />

Text and Composition<br />

Like the rest of the Pentateuch, Exodus is textually among the<br />

best preserved books of the Bible. Very few passages appear<br />

corrupt (e.g., 17:16a), and the versions offer little improvement<br />

over the received Hebrew (though there are hundreds of variants<br />

(see the apparatus in Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia) some<br />

of which have appeared in Exodus-fragments of the Dead Sea<br />

Scrolls; see bibl.). Remarkable for its extensiveness and appeal-<br />

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ing in substance is the Samaritan Hebrew and Septuagint insertion<br />

in 22:4, indicated by brackets below:<br />

“If a man uses his field or vineyard for grazing, and lets his beast<br />

loose so that it grazes in another man’s field [he shall make restitution<br />

out of his own field according to the yield expected; but<br />

if it consumed the whole field (לכ םאו התאובתכ והדשמ םלשי םלש<br />

העבי הדשה)] he shall make restitution from the best part of his<br />

own field or vineyard.”<br />

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620 ENCYCLOPAEDIA <strong>JUDAICA</strong>, Second Edition, Volume 6<br />

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Map 1. Map illustrating major theories on the Israelites’ route from Egypt to Kadesh-Barnea; in addition to the routes the major sites are given according<br />

to various theories.

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