Twenty-fifth Discrepancy

4 And a man will be born of him who will govern many tribes, his kingdom

shall be greater than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted 90.

Twenty-third Discrepancy Leviticus 9:21 in the Hebrew version contains:

As Moses commanded.

The Greek and Samaritan versions have the following words instead:

As the Lord commanded Moses

Twenty-fourth Discrepancy The Book of Numbers 26:10 in the Hebrew’ version has:

And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred

and fifty men: and they became a sign.

The Samaritan version contains:

And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred

and fifty men, and they became a sign 91.

The commentary of Henry and Scott have said that the above verse is closely

related to the context and is in accordance with Psalm No. 106:17.

Twenty-fifth Discrepancy The celebrated Christian theologian Leclerc divided all the differences found

between the Hebrew and the Samaritan versions into six categories: (1) The passages of the Samaritan version that are more correct than the

Hebrew version. There are eleven such passages. (2) The passages in the Hebrew version that seem to be more correct by

their context. Such differences are seven.

90 The Catholic Bible (Knox version) gives yet a different version of this verse. It says, “Like a bucket brimming over the well, see how their posterity spreads from one river frontier to the next! The King that rules over them shall rival Agag himself, and take away his kingdom from him.” Numbers 24:7 (Raazi). 91 The King James version has this passage in accordance with the Samaritan version. Our author might have quoted it from the Hebrew version having a different text. Now both the passages are identical. (Raazi).

4 (3) The passages of the Samaritan version that contain later additions which

are thirteen. (4) The passages of the Samaritan version that have been distorted which

are seventeen. (5) The passages of the Samaritan version which look more reasonable than

the Hebrew version are ten. (6) The passages that are defective in the Samaritan version are two.

The references to all the above passages are as follows according to the

numbers given above (1) GENESIS: 4:2, 7:3, 19:19, 20:2, 23:16, 34:14, 49:10,11, 50:26 (9)

EXODUS: 1:2, 4:2 (2) (2) GENESIS: 31:49, 35:17,35, 41:34,37,41, 47:3 (6)

DEUTERONOMY: 32:5 (1)

(3) GENESIS: 29:15, 30:36, 14:16 (3) EXODUS: 7:18, 8:23, 9:5, 21:20, 22:5, 23:10, 32:9 (7)

LEVITICUS: 1:10, 17:4 (2)

DEUTERONOMY: 5:21 (1) (4) GENESIS: 2:2, 4:10, 9:5, 10:19, 11:21, 18:3, 19:12, 20:16 24:55, 35:7,

36:6, 41:50 (13) EXODUS: 1:5, 13:6, 15:5 (3)

NUMBERS: 22:36 (1) (5) GENESIS: 8:5, 31:11, 9:19, 34:37, 4:39, 25:43 (6)

EXODUS: 40:12, 17:14 (2)

NUMBERS: 14:4 (1) DEUTERONOMY: 16:20 (1)

(6) GENESIS: 14:25, 16:20 (2)

The renowned scholar Home says in vol. 2 of his commentary printed in

1822:

The renowned theologian Leclerc, with the greatest pain and labour, has sorted out the differences of the Hebrew and Samaritan versions, and has

concluded that the Samaritan version is comparatively more correct.

Such differences between the Hebrew and the Samaritan versions are not limited to the sixty pointed out by Leclerc. There are many more such dissimilarities found in the two versions. Leclerc has confined himself to the differences that were of serious nature. If we add twenty-four of the twenty-five discrepancies cited above to the sixty discovered by Leclerc, the total number of discrepancies comes to eighty-four. This is not counting all the differences and discrepancies that exist between the Hebrew and the Latin versions of the