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found in the Jewish text. But " in it " is found in the 

 Samaritan. 



In the fifth commandment, the words " that it may go well 

 with thee " are in Deuteronomy not in Exodus, in both the 

 Jewish text and the Samaritan. But in the Septuagint they are 

 in both alike, and no doubt were so in those Hebrew MSS. from 

 which the Septuagint w^as translated. 



In Exodus XX, 14, we read, " Thou shalt not commit adultery," 

 and in verse. 15, " Thou shalt not steal," and in verses 16 and 

 17, the same form is used. Whereas in Deuteronomy v, it is 

 slightly varied by the insertion of the Copula, which changes 

 "Thou shalt not" into "Neither shalt thou." But in the 

 Samaritan it is in Deuteronomy as in Exodus, "Thou shalt 

 not." 



In Exodus XX, 18, we read, " Thou shalt not covet thy 

 neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife." 

 But in Deuteronomy v, 21, it is " Neither shalt thou desire thy 

 neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's 

 house, his field." The Samaritan is identical in Exodus and 

 Deuteronomy, " Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, 

 and thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, his field," which 

 removes the discrepancy. But the Septuagint appears here to 

 be more correct than either. Like the Samaritan it is the same 

 both in Exodus and in Deuteronomy, " Thou shall not covet 

 thy neighbour's wife, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, 

 nor his field," the order being in both the more probable. 



It is not difficult to see how the mistake arose. The word 

 for " field " would be undistinguishable from a word for " wife " 

 in the Samaritan MSS., and in all Hebrew MSS. before the 

 Masoretic corrections, the two words being only distinguished 

 in Masoretic Hebrew by the difference between Shin and 

 Sin. 



Collating all three, and placing in parentheses the explanations 

 in the fourth and fifth commandments, which are not part of 

 them, there is absolutely no difference of a word or a letter 

 between the ten commandments as recorded in Exodus and 

 Deuteronomy. 



" Sanctify " and " keep holy " are merely different renderings 

 of the same Hebrew word. So are "mayest live long" and 

 " days may be prolonged." 



In the Samaritan Codex there is no difference in Deuteronomy 

 between " desire " and " covet." It is the same word as in 

 Exodus. 



We have really tliree Codices for collation — the Jewish or 



