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This is why the ketiv [the Scriptural text as written, in v. 15] has “he and she had food,” while the keri [the traditional reading] has “she and he had food.”
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It is only the application of medieval masoretic vowels that makes it seem so, and this reflects an earlier qere/ketiv tradition that started out as a fence against uttering the divine name frivolously.
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