2S. Numb, v, 19, Err xb EX: Git/ in, fol. 00, Yoma,
foi. 37, coi. 2, a nr xb =x arr ex.
29. Numb, xviii, 10, iT-JSP EJ'Vmp'Q *~'~Z1 ; in the Talmud seems once to have stood ~3""" after tt)*iH, at leasi this is intimated in the Tosaphoth, or additional com- mentary to the Talmud; Erakin, fol. 18, col. 2, where it is stated im:x:iE xb^ r^ft fcflpB ~nx 131BBn l,i.e. "We sought for this reading, bul could not find it."
30. Deut. vi, 7, S]3Sa2JEl1 ; Berakoth, fol. 2, col.l, ~j3Ea"3 [thus likewise the Samar. and Vulg.].
31. Deut. vi, 9, rVlt.TH ; Menachoth, fol. 34, col. 1, R. Melr seems to have read WlTO.
32. Deut. vi, 20, fTQ to EirX ; Jerusalem Talmud, Pesa- chim, ch.X, §4, i:r*X.
33. Dent, xxiii, 1, TEX C]33 ; Berakoth, fol. 21, col. 2,
-:= rx.
34. Deut. xxv, 7, 1723? HEX xb ; Yebamoth, fol. 10G, col. 2, R. Ashai found it. Kahaua, who, being perplexed about it, read ">a31 H3X xbl (with 1 conjunctive). In correct codices, as is also evident from the Masorah, it is read HEX xb [some Hebr. MSS., 1 Sam., the Syr., Ar., and Vulg. have xbl].
35. Josh, iii, 17 is quoted in Berakoth, fol. 54, col. 1, but instead of mm T"iE '(',~Xn it reads ft'rr 7-X, and for iljn bz ^ft "HEX IS the reading is ET ~iV
osn br.
36. Josh, x, 11, bx^r^ 13B53 ; Berakoth, fol. 54, col. 2,
bx~r- -:e -:e~
37. Josh, xiv, 7, 10. These two verses for the sake of brevity are thus contracted (see No. l, c, above), Erakin, fol. 13, col. i, nsia c^'E-x p abr n-:xp n (?) "bsa rx bsnb ssia loipa n -tzv nr- -r-x nbra
_.......„. gjap, p =.._, .-;x nr->. • — xn, i.e. "It is
said of Caleb, forty years old was I when Muses the ser- vant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land, and now I am this day fourscore and five years old."
38. Josh, xvi, 6, rib'j r:xn ; Zebachim, fol. 118, col. 8, Rabbi Abdini bar-Chasa said, the Scripture sa S, *lb*l itb^EJ r:xr, to which the commentary remarks, X-p-ca ITlKSa xb- r.-EE'n. i.e. "I have Bought but not found it in the Scripture, but I found in Joshua xvi, nb^r r:xr ":xr bax
39. Judg. xv, '.'(»; xvi, 31, where Samson is said to have judged l-iai'l twenty years (xvi. 31). The Talm. Micros.
Sotah, fol. 17, "One passage reads, and be jndged Israel forty years, and another thai be Jndged Israel twenty years. R. Acha answered, From this we see that the Philistines feared him twenty years after his death, just
as they did twenty years before it." ion this passage
K. Chayim, in bis preface to the Kabbinie Bible, in ikefl the following interpretation: "To me it appears, how- ever, that there is no difficulty in it ; for what the Talmud -peak- about Samson refers to the Midrashlc interpreta- tion, viz. 'Why is the verse, that he judged Israel twenty
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years, repeated twice ? R. Acba answered, From this we see that the Philistines feared him (viz. Samson) twenty years after his death, just as they did twenty years before it, and this makes forty years.' Heuce the Talmud does not say, Why is it written iu the text, 'he judged Israel forty years?' but simply, 'he judged forty years,' that is, accordiug to the Midrash. And now everything comes out right when thou lookest into it." We may well sub- scribe what Claudius Capellanus, in his Mare Rabbinicum Infidum, p. 350, note, says, "Tarn insigne mendacium quod decepit doctissimum Buxtorfium facile corruet vel sola adductioue loci Talmudici." This much is certain, that in the time of the Talmud, one codex at least had the read- ing, judg. xv, naia D15531X.]
40. 1 Sam. ii, 24, Dll33>a ; in Sabbath, fol. 55, col. 2, "is not the reading dl!3Sa ? Whereupon R. Hunnah ben R. Joshua said the reading is d!33>a." [Rashi re- marks that the reading of the most trustworthy codices is d"*13Sa plene, i.e. with a Yod after the Resh.]
41. 2 Sam. iii, 35, ni!3nb ; Sanhedrin, fol. 20, col. 1, it is written ni!3nb, but is read ni!3nb [a number of MSS. read ni!3nb ; comp. also the Diets, of Kimchi, Lib. Rad. s.v. ni3, and Menachen ben-Sarug, Lex. Rad. "13 and "13 (ed. Filipowski, Lond. 1854, p. 4S, 109)].
4r 2 Sam. xxiv. 15, 1p3Eia ^TOIS 131 tV\F* )F\^ ISIS n?"l?1; Yoma, fol. 22, col. 2, 35'3 131 PI "jnil
isia ns> isi ip3ii ",a.
43. 2 Kings xvii, 31, TI133 ; Sanhedrin, fol. C3, col. 2, *n33 [D. Kimchi also asserts to have seen the Nun Cj) final, instead of the "j majuscular, as written now].
44. 2 Kings xxiii, 17 ; in Erakin, fol. 33, col. 1, the whole verse is quoted with the exception of 1111BS TUX nbxn.
45. Isa. xxxviii, 16, 1311(1111 ; Berakoth, fol. 55, col. 1,
Trinni.
46. Isa. xlii, 5, dilia'l31 ; Bereshith Rabba, sect, xii, fol. 15, 3, dnidl*31 [i. e. leaders].
4T. Isa. lviii, 7, d|"nn xb ; Jerusalem Talmud, Kethu- both, ch. xi, § 3, D5Snh bx.
4S. Ezek.xl,4S; xlvii.l; Erubin, fol.2,co1.1,bx 31H31 Pl^lil dblX nns ; but such a passage is not to be found iu the Scriptures. [Tosaphoth remarks on this passage, "Such a passage is nowhere to be found, but we find written (xl, 4S) J"P3ri 3blX and rV?3!l nn3 (xlvii, 1)."]