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The Samaritan version of Deuteronomy 27 ends its curses on anyone who fails to keep all of the Torah, a word missing from Hebrew Deuteronomy. Paul's quotation in Galatians has it too, and Jerome later accused Jewish scribes of cutting it on purpose.
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Samaritan Deuteronomy 27:26
Samaritan Penteteuch
Samaritan
24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen. 25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen. 26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Galatians 3:10
New Testament
10 For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.” 11 Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law because the righteous one will live by faith. 12 But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them.
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“... For example, when commenting on the Gal. 3:10 citation of Deut 27:26a, Jerome accepted the SP variant over the proto-MT. The MT here reads: [...] Cursed is the one who does not uphold the words of this law to do them [...] In contrast, the SP reads: [...] Cursed is the one who does not uphold all the words of this law to do them [...] Here the SP is closer to the citation of this verse in Galatians: [...] Cursed is everyone who does not keep all which is written in the book of the law to do them. Jerome here accepts the Samaritan reading and criticises the Jews for deliberately removing ‘all’ in order to limit the scope of their obligation to the law (Waltke 1965, 5). ...”
Reid, Philip Mark
A Preliminary Investigation into the Samaritan Pentateuch as an Intralingual Translation
(p. 13) University of the Free State South Africa, 2021
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