pherd clears his garment from
lice_. Suitable and vivid as this figure is and adopted by many
moderns, one hesitates to use it for lack of confirmation from other
sources. The other one is sufficient.

669 Besides its usual _minus_ Greek omits in 1 _and at Noph_, in 3 _and
to serve_ and _neither ... fathers_, in 9 _and your own wickedness_,
in 10 _neither have they feared, in my law nor, before you and_, in
11 _against you ... all Judah_, at least half of 12, in 15 _unto
other gods_ and _that stood by_, in 18 _and to pour out ... unto
her_, in 19 _to portray her_, in 22, _without inhabitant_, in 23 _as
it is this day_, in 28 _mine or theirs_. Also Greek begins 19, _And
all the women answered and said_, and in 25 for _ye and your wives_
reads properly _ye women_.

670 Hebrew adds _and at Noph_ (Memphis).

671 Duhm, Rothstein, Cornill, Gillies, etc., eliminate from 15 as a
later addition _all the men who knew that their wives burned to
other gods_ on the ground that 19 shows the women alone to be the
speakers; Duhm, precariously changing besides _a great assembly_ (by
the alteration of one letter) to _with a great_ (loud) _voice_. And
these critics and Driver, Giesebrecht and Peake rightly take _even
all the people ... in Pathros_ as a late gloss founded on verse 1.

672 That is _solemnly sworn_; Judg. xi. 36; Numb. xxx. 2, 12.

673 Some Greek MSS. and Syriac have _and all the women answered_, an
addition felt to be necessary after the mention of _both_ men and
women in 15.

674 Hebrew adds _to portray her_, that is on the cakes.

675 Erbt first made clear the metrical form of these verses, though I
think too grudgingly, and has ignored the fact that they are not one
but two Oracles.

676 So Greek.

677 Generally accepted instead of Hebrew _vows_.

678 Calvin.

679 The rest of 27 and 28_a_, the destruction of all the Jews in Egypt,
is a prose expansion.

680 Hebrew adds, but Greek lacks, _from me or from them_.

681 xx. 8.

682 i. 6.

683 xx. 7.

684 vi. 11, xx. 9.

685 xv. 10; cp. xii. 1.

686 i. 10, p. 83.

687 xx. 2 ff.; see p. 192.

688 xxii. 18 f.; see p. 167.

689 xxxviii. 19 ff.; pp. 282 f.

690 xxix. 24-32.

691 xxviii. 17.

692 xlv. 5; p. 228.

693 So Greek; Hebrew _thou lettest me see_.

694 Gre