The right way to use such knowledge of the history of the text as we possess is to make it enhance our understanding of the final product (MT). There is textual evidence that a Hebrew text shorter than MT and corresponding to Sept. did actually exist and there are reasons for concluding that 10:1–16 consists of successive additions, each generated by the pre-existing text or part of it. Verse 2 may be the core to which the passage is reducible and Wambacq has made an impressive attempt to show how