Gen 7: minor variants

Editorial decision: print the MT.

Says The Greek is fuller: at 7:3 it adds "clean" to the birds and a clause on the birds not clean, two by two, male and female; at 7:8 it names the birds twice; at 7:16 it adds "the ark"; at 7:17 it has forty days "and forty nights," where the MT has days only. It has "male and female" for "a man and his wife" (7:2), no "great" with the deep (7:11), and "the Lord God" where the MT has the Lord at 7:1, 5 and 16.

Says At 7:23 OSHB parses וַיִּמַח as a Qal, "and he wiped out," with the object marker after it; the BSB has the passive "was destroyed"; Swete has ἐξήλειψεν, "he wiped out." For וַיִשָּׁאֶר, "and was left," written without the doubling dot that וַיִּמַח has in the yod, OSHB keeps the form of BHS and the Leningrad Codex.

Uncertain Whether the Greek differences reflect other Hebrew or the translator is open. No lean is taken here.

Minor variants in Swete's notes, in plain words: at 7:2 one manuscript lacks the clean beasts, another those not clean; at 7:6 one adds "of water"; at the end of 7:7 Alexandrinus has a twelve-letter erasure; at 7:9 one has "Lord" for "God," and at 7:16 one has "Lord," another "Lord God"; at 7:13 one lacks "and Noah's wife"; at 7:17 one adds "the waves"; at 7:20 one has "five and ten"; at 7:24 two have "fifty and a hundred days."