4QpaleoExodm III 2-
4
]y(drp[ ... ]xbw tional text in 4QpaleoExodm.^936Q272 MT Exod 8:14 yhtw SV(1) – Difference in gender.^937
4QpaleoExodm III 26 yhyw
Q273 MT Exod 8:16 omits SV(2) – The MT lacks the syntac-
4QpaleoExodm III 29 rwm)l tically redundant infinitive.
Q274 MT Exod 8:17 Mh OV(l) – Possible difference in
4QpaleoExodm III 33 hmh pronunciation.
Q275 MT Exod 8:19 omits SV(2) – The MT lacks the addi-
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The Tatbericht in 4QpaleoExodm can be restored on the basis of the SP:
yndb(yw ym( t) xl# hwhy rm) hk wyl) wrbdyw h(rp l) Nrh)w h#m )byw
r)yh Cr#w My(drpcb Klwbg lk t) Pgn ykn) hnh xl#l ht) N)m M)w
Kydb(b ytbbw Kyt+m l(w Kybk#m yrdhbw Kytbb w)bw wl(w My(drpc
My(drpch wl(y Kydb( lkbw Km(bw Kbw Kytr)#mbw Kyrwntbw Km(bw
And Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and they spoke to him. ‘Thus said
Yahweh: send my people away that they may serve me; and if you refuse to
send , behold, I am afflicting your every border with frogs, and the river will
teem with frogs and they will go up and enter into your houses, and into your
bed chambers, and upon your beds, and into your servants’ houses, and against
your people, and into your ovens and into your kneading troughs; and against
your and against your people and against all of your servants the frogs will go
937 up.’^
The subject of the verb √hyh is Mnk (Mynk), “gnats, lice.” The pluralis inhumanus is “frequently construed
with the feminine singular of the verbal predicate” (see W. Gesenius, E. Kautzsch, and A.E. Cowley, He-
brew Grammar, 464, §145k).