Impacts the idea of biblical infallibility, as there is no way for anyone If Paul made a slight error of memory, I do not see how that I doubt that this is the correct explanation, but I cannot Rule out the possibility that Paul is making a very small error due to a His memory was not absolutely perfect in recalling the original. Out is that Paul is quoting the Septuagint (Greek) translation but that Mentioned twenty-three thousand deaths, whereas the most trusted Hebrew I am assuming that Paul had access to a Hebrew manuscript which There is no way thatĪnyone can claim that the difference is significant to any biblical Old Testament says that 700 people did such and such, I would not beįortunately, the exact numbers used in the Old Testament are almost never The Bible should take numbers with a fairly large grain of salt. When I teach on this topic I suggest that those who interpret Reason, probably the most common copying error in the Old Testament is in If I write 7552 instead ofħ332 the context is not helpful in detecting the copying error. Tree, the mistake is obvious from the context. If I try to write the word tgee instead of WhenĬopying numbers rather than words it is easier to make a mistake because Some of the Hebrew letters were quite similar to oneĪnother, making the job of copying numbers even more difficult. System of numbers was somewhat like the Roman in that they used lettersįor numbers. The case with numbers is particularly difficult for copiers. Thousand years are significant to the meaning of Isaiah. None of the copying errors which occurred over one Thousand years of copying there are a few dozen differences, all of whichĪre relatively minor. What one finds, for example in the text of Isaiah, is that over one The Dead Sea Scrolls (about 100 BC) to the Masoretic Text (about AD 900). Good estimate of the number and seriousness of copying errors by comparing Mistakes were made because of the variations in the text. The Hebrew copyists to make mistake-free copies. In the article mentioned above, I describe the incredible efforts of It is impossible to copy the Old Testament manuscriptsĭozens of times without making copying errors, no matter how careful one Having said that, there are definitely some mistakes, even in our best Job of reproducing a Hebrew manuscript very close to the original–closeĮnough for us to have a very high degree of confidence in our best Hebrew Through the science of textual criticism, we can do a good Original writings were inspired, but the copyists were not inspired. Hebrew text of the Old Testament, but definitely not a perfect one. In the article A RemarkableĬollection, I point out that we have a nearly perfect copy of the original How we got the Bible at the site as well. If you do a search of the articles section of the web site, you will findĪn article titled “A Remarkable Collection.” There are other articles on I would love to hear your thoughts on this. Possibly an extra 1,000 were killed on another day. Was referring to Ex 32 and not the passage in Numbers. However, in Numbers, it states that 24,000 were killed. It’s the passage in 1Ĭorinthians 10 that talks about the 23,000 killed for sexual immorality. I had a question about a passage I read recently.
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