each of these cases is the presence or absence of the pronominal object (e.g. Q9, Q29,
Q200, Q254, Q343, Q395, Q887).
Stylistic Variants (Type 3)
Instances in which the sequence of words or verses is changed occur far less frequently in
the sources than any of the previously mentioned variant types. In all there are 29 such
variations, and the vast majority of these involve minor re-arrangements of words across
short phrases or single verses. Of interest among these minor changes in sequence are
Q110 and Q205 which represent different orders of the list of nations that occurs fre-
quently throughout the Pentateuch (see the discussion in note above).
Significant alterations to the order of verses can be found in three instances. One of these,
Q202, probably occurs in a liturgical scroll rather than a variant edition of Exodus
(4QExodd, for which see note above). The two remaining instances, however, occur in
the well preserved Exodus scroll 4QpaleoExodm, and reflect the same ordering of the text
as is found in the SP (Q326, Q332). This scroll therefore displays variants of multiple
characteristics that align it with the same textual tradition from which the SP has devel-
oped.
Hermeneutic Variants
There are only four variants between the sources and the MT that can be categorised as
HV. Three of these variations involve differences in cardinal numbers. One such differ-
ence, Q602 in 4QDeutc, possibly represents a harmonisation with an immediately preced-