The accuracy of the text is vitally important for literature considered inspired and authoritative. The main textual sources for the Psalms are the Masoretic Text (MT), the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Septuagint (LXX). Oral traditions of pronunciation and meaning are more basic than written, for the latter depend on the former. Moreover, even if general rules of pronunciation and meaning in a language are known, exceptions in pronunciation (e.g., in English between “through” and “tough”)