Manuscript lens · variant unit
Gen 4:8 — וַיֹּאמֶר קַיִן אֶל־הֶבֶל אָחִיו, no words follow (MT) / + Διέλθωμεν εἰς τὸ πεδίον (LXX); + "let us go to the field" (SP)
Gen 4:8 · reading in
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר קַ֖יִן אֶל־הֶ֣בֶל אָחִ֑יו וַֽיְהִי֙ בִּהְיוֹתָ֣ם בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה וַיָּ֥קָם קַ֛יִן אֶל־הֶ֥בֶל אָחִ֖יו וַיַּהַרְגֵֽהוּ׃
BSB: “Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.”
WLC · OSHB: Original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb (lemma and morphology: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Westminster Leningrad Codex text: public domain. · BSB (public domain)
Printed reading
וַיֹּאמֶר קַיִן אֶל־הֶבֶל אָחִיו (no words follow)
vayyo'mer qayin 'el-hevel 'achiw
and Cain said to Abel his brother
MT
MTWLC
Alternative 1
+ Διέλθωμεν εἰς τὸ πεδίον
dielthōmen eis to pedion
let us go through into the plain
LXX (Swete, vol. 1 p. 6, leaf n37, read on the page image)
LXX
Alternative 2
+ "let us go to the field" (two words; the unpointed Samaritan text is not reprinted)
let us go to the field
SP (von Gall p. 6, leaf n555, read on the page image; main text)
SP
Witnesses by century
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