"... According to the oral reading tradition recorded by the Masoretes, supported by most ancient witnesses (including the Samaritan version), the kötib in Deuteronomy 33:2 is to be read as two words. (Compare the Aleppo margin 'written as one word and read as two words.' The writing of together with a following monosyllabic word is found also in Jeremiah 6:29. Short proclitic words are often written together with the following word in inscriptions as well. The Samaritan Pentateuch has OR written as two words. There is only one ancient witness that may have interpreted our form as a single word, the LXX. It has been conjectured that the word 'angels' in the Septuagint's rendering of the end of 33:2 corresponds to the kétib and that the latter is to be compared to Arabic 'lion' and Epigraphic South Arabian 'man, warrior') Because the second word looks like the noun ('law'), attested in Hebrew and Aramaic passages of Esther, Ezra, and Daniel, the phrase was traditionally understood as connecting the Torah with fire in one way or another ..."