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Masoretic Text
The Masoretic Text is the standard text of the Hebrew Old Testament, transmitted by medieval Jewish scholars (the Masoretes) who added vowel points and annotations. Most Old Testament translations today use it as their base text.
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- MasoretesBible
The Masoretes were Jewish scholars, active roughly from the sixth to the tenth century, who copied and transmitted the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, adding vowel points, cantillation marks, and marginal notes that recorded how the text was to be read.
- Samaritan PentateuchBible
The Samaritan Pentateuch is the Hebrew text of the Five Books of Moses that the Samaritan community has preserved from generation to generation. It agrees with the Masoretic Text of Judaism in most respects but differs in certain places, notably in passages that exalt Mount Gerizim as the place of worship.
- Leningrad CodexBible
The Leningrad Codex is a manuscript of the Hebrew Old Testament copied around 1008 or 1009. It is known as the oldest surviving manuscript of the Masoretic Text that preserves the entire Old Testament, and it is the base text of modern critical editions of the Hebrew Bible.
- Aleppo CodexBible
The Aleppo Codex is a manuscript of the Hebrew Old Testament believed to have been produced in Tiberias, Galilee, in the first half of the tenth century. It is regarded as one of the most accurate witnesses to the Masoretic Text.
- Ketiv and QereBible
Ketiv and qere are a Masoretic notation system marking places in manuscripts of the Hebrew Old Testament where what is written (ketiv) differs from what is read (qere).
- Old Testament ApocryphaBible
The Old Testament Apocrypha is the Protestant term for Jewish writings that appear in Greek manuscripts of the Old Testament but are absent from the Hebrew Bible. The Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church accept some of these books as canonical.
- Jeremiah 9Bible
Jeremiah 9 is a chapter in which the prophet and the LORD lament over Judah, a nation filled with deceit and idolatry, and pronounce judgment upon it. It contains the exhortation not to glory in wisdom, might, or riches, but to glory in knowing the LORD (verses 23–24).
- Leviticus 6Bible
Leviticus 6 contains regulations for the trespass offering that makes restitution for wrongs against a neighbor's property, together with the ordinances the priests were to observe when presenting the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the sin offering.
- Malachi 4Bible
Malachi 4 is the final chapter of the Book of Malachi. It describes the day of the LORD, which will burn up the wicked and heal those who fear Him, urges the people to remember the law of Moses, and promises that Elijah will be sent before that day.
- IthielPeople
Ithiel is a biblical figure named, together with Ucal, in Proverbs 30:1 as one of those to whom Agur the son of Jakeh addressed his proverbs.
- Psalm 91:1–2Bible Verses
The opening verses of Psalm 91 describe the security of one who dwells under the protection of the Most High and confess trust in God as refuge and fortress. The passage is often cited by those seeking protection in times of crisis, and interpreters differ over whether its promises of protection should be taken literally.
- Aaron ben AsherPeople
Aaron ben Asher was a Jewish Masorete active in Tiberias in Galilee during the first half of the tenth century. The last representative of the Ben Asher family, he is known for adding the vowel points and Masoretic notes to the Aleppo Codex.