Seventh Discrepancy

4 Sixth Discrepancy In addition to the ten commandments of Moses an eleventh commandment is present in the Samaritan version which does not exist in the Hebrew version.

Seventh Discrepancy Genesis 4:8 of the Hebrew version has:

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they

were in the field…..

The same statement appears differently in the Greek and Samaritan version

in these words:

Cain spoke to his brother Abel, let us go to the field; and it came to pass

when they were in the field.

The theologians have preferred the Greek and the Samaritan versions.

Eighth Discrepancy Genesis 7:17 of the Hebrew version says, “And the flood was forty days upon the earth.” The Greek version has, “The flood was forty days and nights

upon the earth.” The Greek version is obviously correct.

Ninth Discrepancy Genesis 29:8 of the Hebrew version contains:

Until all the flocks be gathered together.

The Greek and the Samaritan versions and the Arabic translation of

Houbigant and Kennicott contain a different statement:

Until all the herdsmen gather together.

Tenth Discrepancy Genesis 35:22 of the Hebrew version says:

That Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel

heard it.

The Greek version has: