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Did God approve of Rahab’s lie? Why are many of the Old Testament quotes in the New Testament not literal? Does the Bible class abortion with murder? Where did Adam and Eve’s sons get their wives? Does 1 Corinthians 7:10–16 authorize divorce for desertion? What do you make of the difficult areas in the Bible—those puzzling passages that make you stop and scratch your head? The seeming...

out words already appearing in their Vorlage. But this rule does not apply if the shorter reading seems to result from haplography or homoeoteleuton, as described above. Canon 4. The reading that best explains all the variants is most likely the original one. An excellent example of this was discussed above in connection with Psalm 22:16 (Psalm 22:17 Eng.), where we saw that a kāʾrú (“they have pierced”) misread as kāʾrú (at a time when waw and yodh greatly resembled each other) most satisfactorily
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