a Reading yiprāḥ, with Tg., LXX, and Vulg. for MT yipreḥ; b literally, “and his smell …” (vahărîḥô), a copyist’s dittographic error prompted by rûaḥ … vĕyirʾat YHVH in the previous verse (on which see Unterman 1992, 17–23); c reading laʿăniyê- (→ ʿănî, “poor”) for MT lĕʿanvê- (→ ʿānāv, “humble”), more fitting with dallîm (cf. 10:2); d MT ʾereṣ, “earth,” is certainly possible and is supported by 1QIsaa, but ʿāriṣ in parallelism with rāšāʿ is to be preferred; e since
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