Gen 8: minor variants

Editorial decision: print the MT.

Says At 8:17 the WLC prints the written form הוצא and notes the reading הַיְצֵא, "bring out": two spellings of the same Hiphil imperative. The Samaritan text (von Gall, p. 12) spells Ararat with a first letter he at 8:4 and has finite verbs, "went and decreased," at 8:5.

Says The Greek differs in places: at 8:1 it adds "all the birds and all the creeping things"; at 8:13 it has the year "in the life of Noah," and in the second clause the water, not the face of the ground, is the subject; it has "the Lord God" at 8:15 and 8:21 and "to God" at 8:20; at 8:21 "having considered," "because of the works of men," and "diligently"; at 8:22 "summer and spring"; at 8:18 the wife before the sons; at 8:17 nothing for "swarm on the earth."

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 8:1 two manuscripts lack "and all the creeping things"; at 8:9 two have another verb for "returned"; at 8:13 "and saw that" in Alexandrinus is written over an erasure; at 8:18 Alexandrinus first lacked "and his sons" and "with him," added in the margin by a corrector; at 8:19 two put the creeping things before the birds; at 8:21 one lacks the first "God" and the word "living."