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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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Otot are signs, the marks of each fathers’ house. Minneged is opposite, at a distance facing the tent.
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Qedmah mizrachah is toward the front, the east. Yam, the sea, is the west. Teman is the south. Tzafon is the north.
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Some lines write pequdayv, “his numbered men.” Others write pequdehem, “their numbered men.” The suffix that is written is the one printed.
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Ha-chonem is singular, “the one camping,” where other lines use the plural. The singular is printed. The name is written Tzurishaddai with a maqqef in this verse. It is the same name as in chapter 1.
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This verse writes Reuel. Numbers 1:14 writes Deuel for the same father. Both consonants are printed where they stand. Neither name is changed to match the other.