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Law Prophets Writings

The Old Testament in the Original Tongues Jacob Ben Chayim Textus Receptus With Critical Apparatus

Revision: 25th April 2003 The latest draft of this book can be downloaded from: http://www.moses.uklinux.net/pdf/bible/

All parts of this book are Copyright © 2002, 2003 Tigran A. Aivazian Typeset with the LaTEX2ε Documentation System with Tiqwah under Linux. The Tiqwah System used for typesetting this book is © Yannis Haralambous http://www.fluxus-virus.com The Kerkis Greek fonts which were used to print this book are © Department of Mathematics, University of the Ægæan are freely available from the nearest CTAN mirror, for example: ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/greek/kerkis/

Introduction This edition of Old Testament in the original Hebrew and Aramaic languages is based on the Jacob ben Chayim recension as preserved in Christian David Ginsburg’s Second Edition published by the Trinitarian Bible Society in 1894. The notes found in his Third Edition and published by the British and Foreign Bible Society were also extensively used in preparation of this book. It was prepared in strict accordance with the following basic principles: 1. No variations, however strongly supported by the Hebrew manuscripts and printed editions have been introduced into the text but were relegated to the margins and footnotes. 2. The modern chapter and verse numbering in the margins was preserved for the sake of convenient reference. The words which have a textual variant note are marked with the circle above the affected letter or between the words if the note refers to more than one word. The words which have a massoretic note in the margin are marked with the asterisk. Special thanks are due to Dr Yannis Haralambous for allowing me to use his Tiqwah system and fonts for typesetting this book. And, most of all, I thank the Lord my God for providing everything I needed for working on this book.

Tigran A. Aivazian London, England May 2002.

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= 10 = 20 = 30 = 40 = 50 = 60 = 70 = 80 = 90

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= 100 = 200 = 300 = 400 = 500 = 600 = 700 = 800 = 900

The Greek Alphabet The Greek letters were 24, and the required number, 27, was made up by using the final ς (called Stigma) for 6, and adding two arbitrary symbols called respectively Koppa, for 90 and Sampsi, for 900. Why this letter ς and the number 6 are thus associated is unknown, except that both are intimately connected with the ancient Egyptian ‘‘mysteries.’’ The three letters S S S (in Greek Σ Σ Σ) were the symbol of Isis, which is thus connected with 666. Indeed the expression of this number, Χξς, consists of the initial and final letters of the word Χριστος, Christ, with the symbol of the serpent between them, Χ–ξ–ς. Alpha Beta Gamma Delta Epsilon Stigma Zeta Eta Theta

α=1 =2 γ=3 δ=4 ε=5 ς=6

=7 η=8 ϑ=9

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ι = 10 κ = 20 λ = 30 µ = 40 ν = 50 ξ = 60 ο = 70 π = 80  = 90

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