volume 16, issue 2, 2024, pages 195-200

DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsAPWY9294
Published online: 2024-12-01
Published in print: 2024-12-30

Abstract: The participle בשֵׁ וֹי “dwelling” in Num 21:34 and parallels raises grammatical and exegetical problems: when God promises to deliver Og into the hand of the Israelites, Sihon is no longer “dwelling” in Heshbon. The consonantal text and the reading tradition of the Samaritan Pentateuch read the form as a perfect. The article argues that the Samaritan reading is to be preferred and tries to account for the Masoretic text.