Leviticus 9:4

Hebrew Bible

2 and said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both flawless, and present them before the Lord. 3 Then tell the Israelites: ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering and a calf and a lamb, both a year old and flawless, for a burnt offering, 4 and an ox and a ram for peace offerings to sacrifice before the Lord, and a grain offering mixed with olive oil, for today the Lord is going to appear to you.’” 5 So they took what Moses had commanded to the front of the Meeting Tent, and the whole congregation presented them and stood before the Lord. 6 Then Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded you to do so that the glory of the Lord may appear to you.”

Samaritan Leviticus 9:4

Samaritan Penteteuch
Samaritan

2 And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD. 3 And unto the elders of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering; 4 Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for today the LORD will be envisioned to you. 5 And they brought that which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD. 6 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commanded that ye should do: and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto you.

 Notes and References

"... With the discovery of Qumran manuscripts that agree with the Samaritan Pentateuch in major details, we can now distinguish between the substra­tum of the Samaritan Pentateuch that was current in ancient Israel in the last pre-Christian centuries and a thin second layer that was superimposed on this substratum. The criteria for the sep­aration of the two layers are, on the one hand, the identified features of the pre-Samaritan texts from Qumran that are also found in the substratum of the Samaritan Pentateuch and, on the other hand, the characteristics of the Samaritan religion and language as known from later sources. By means of these features we can isolate the second layer of their Torah. It seems that the Samaritans made but few ideological and phonological changes to the presumed base text. All other characteristics of the Samaritan Pentateuch were already found in early texts such as the so-called pre-Samaritan Oamran texts. At the same time, the Samaritan Pentateuch also differs in small details from these texts. The paucity of information on the pre-Samaritan texts does not allow us to make precise statements on all the types of differences. What characterized the ancient scribes of the Samaritan Pentateuch and the pre-Samaritan texts is the freedom with which they approached the biblical text during the last pre-Christian centuries as opposed to the tradition of meticulous copying that characterized other texts. In contrast. at a second stage, after the content of the Samaritan tradition had been fixed. the Samaritan Pentateuch was copied with great precision, like the texts belonging to the Masoretic text group ..."

Tsedaka, Benyamim The Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah: First English Translation Compared with the Masoretic Version (pp. vii-viii, 247) William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2013

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