likely to have fewer copying errors. Because if one error is made in copying down a manuscript, future manuscript copies are going to reproduce that error. The earlier manuscripts tend to be more accurate because they are closer to the original. So it becomes evident when and how these errors came about. But we didn’t know just how amazingly accurate the Old Testament copies were until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947. Before 1947, the oldest complete Hebrew manuscript in our possession