I9II-] AGAINST THE CURSE ON EVE. 515 



col. 619, n. 3 : 7 Jiavc created a man even as Yahu'eh; but we must 

 not substitute Ic-'unundt. Nor can we read is ot Yalm'cli, the man 

 of the mark (cf. above, n. 14) of Jhvh, or u et'anKi'eh, a man 

 whom I desire. The prediction of the serpent that Eve and her 

 husband would be like God, if they ate of the forbidden fruit, im- 

 plied that they would be able to create new human beings, and this 

 would make the race of Adam immortal. Cf. the fourth page, 

 below, of my paper cited in n. i. 



-^ This clause is preserved in the Samaritan Pentateuch and in 

 the Ancient Versions. The A'ulgate has Egrediaiiiur foras. 



"'^Cf. my explanation of the story of Judah and Tamar in n. 26 

 to my paper cited above, n. 11. 



"^ Cf. G. J. Spurrell, Xotcs on the Text of the Book of Genesis 

 (Oxford, 1896), p. 2. 



"-Contrast the blood of righteous Abel in ^latt. xxiii., 35; see 

 also Hebrews, xi., 4; i John, iii., 12. 



^' We must read: Halo, im tetib. essa pancka ; z^'c-'iin hofc atta. 

 Id eqqdh qorbancka. In the received text hote attd is mispointed 

 and misplaced : it appears as hattdt between lap-petah and robeg 

 which are corrupted from Id eqqdh qorbdnkd. The Greek Bible 

 read le-natteh instead of lap-petah, and rebdc for robee. The read- 

 ing of the received text, im 15 tctib, if thou doest not well, is a later 

 substitution for the original im hote attd, if thou art a sinner. We 

 might read also Id ergeh minhateka. but this could not have been 

 corrupted to lap-petah robcQ. In lo eqqdh qorbdnkd one of the 

 Alephs in Id eqqdh was omitted; q of qorbdnkd dropped out after 

 the final h of eqqdh. and n was omitted after the b of qorbdnkd; the 

 letters for ;/ and b are similar in Hebrew ; for q = h see Crit. 

 Xotes on Kings, in the Polychrome Bible, p. 187, 1. 20. For eqqdh 

 qorbdnkd cf. Psalm vi., 10: Yahzvch iqqdh tepillati, Jhvh will re- 

 ceive my prayer, and Assyr. teleqi tcmcqsu and leqdt unneni, &c. 

 (see Delitzsch's Assyr. Handzi'drterbiich, p. 384'', d). Guxkel's 

 reconstruction of the text (in Die Schriften des Alten Testaments 

 iibersetst von Gressmann, Guxkel, &c.. part 5. Gottingen, 1910, 

 p. 69) does not commend itself. 



'* C/. Ephesians, v., 22; Colossians, iii., 18; Titus, ii., 5; i Peter, 

 iii.. I. 



