Exodus 31:8

Verse 8. Table and (all) the. The Sam. copy retains the word col, “all,” as well as the Sam. Septuagint Syr. and Arab. versions, and one Hebrew MS. though the printed editions have rejected it. In a Chaldaic MS. it is also found. The omission, probably was occasioned by the custom of the Jews, who always fill up their lines with the initial letters of the next line; and as coliu followed, the transcriber supposed that col was in that predicament. Ken. dis. 2.—Most pure gold, always giving light, or kept clean. Calmet. 39:37.