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.
677 Generally accepted instead of Hebrew _vows_.
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_.
693 So Greek; Hebrew _thou lettest me see_.
694 Greek; Hebrew takes this with the next line.
695 So generally read since Hitzig; Hebrew has _bread_, i.e. _fruit_.
696 Others: _on Thee I have rolled_; cp. xx. 12.
698 Hebrew copyists senselessly repeat, _Thus saith the Lord of Hosts_; Greek omits.
701 Greek, meaning, Thy sanction to their curses.
702 The text of the last six lines is corrupt; the above is Duhm's reading after the Greek. See too J. R. Gillies. Verses 13, 14 are out of place here, see xvii. 3, 4.
704 So Greek; Hebrew (with same consonants, but the first two transposed) _Found were Thy words_.
705 So Greek; Hebrew _I did eat them_. But all this bracketed quatrain breaks the connection between what precedes and verse 17.
707 Omit _of bronze_ for the metre's sake; it is a copyist's echo of i. 18. Cornill omits _impassable_ instead.
709 Hebrew precedes this with And the Word of _the Lord came unto me_, which Greek is without, thus closely connecting xvi. 2 ff. with xv. 21.
710 In 3, 4 the bracketed lines are probably expansions of the original.
711 Hebrew, etc., add _nor bemoan them_--expansion.
717 Perhaps 14 connects with 9, 10. The line _For Thou art my praise_ is a late addition.
718 So Aq. Symm. Syr., reading _ra'ah, evil_ for _ro'eh, shepherd_.
721 To this line Greek adds _have privily laid a stumbling block_. Most regard both lines as an expansion from 22.
725 In contrast with its boldness in textual criticism a curious timidity of sentiment has set through recent O.T. scholarship in Germany from which the older German scholars were free.
730 Verse 13, a doxology, is probably a later addition.