Gen 9: minor variants

Editorial decision: print the MT.

Says At 9:21 the MT has אָהֳלֹה, "his tent," with the older spelling of "his" in a final he; the WLC, following the Leningrad Codex, prints it with no marginal reading.

Says The Greek differs in places: at 9:1 it adds "and have dominion over it"; at 9:7 it has "fill the earth" for "swarm on the earth"; at 9:12 "the Lord God" for "God"; at 9:21 "in his house" for "in his tent"; at 9:22 "and having gone out" before "told"; at 9:24 "the younger" for "the small"; at 9:25 παῖς οἰκέτης, "a household servant," for "a servant of servants"; at 9:26 "his servant" and at 9:27 "their servant" for "servant to them"; at 9:27 "in the houses of Shem" for "in the tents of Shem." At 9:28 the Greek has the MT's 350 years.

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 9:5 "of your lives" stands in the margin of Alexandrinus, added by a corrector, and the first "I will require" is written over an erasure; at 9:12 one manuscript lacks "Lord"; at 9:25 and 9:27 one manuscript has "Ham" for "Canaan"; at 9:26 one lacks "God"; at 9:27 one has "his" for "their"; at 9:23 one lacks "and covered … backward."