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My Grandpa\u2019s typewriter was a smart navy blue. The keys sprung on long hinges, each perfectly round like a button, confidently marked with each letter of the alphabet. On the right-hand side, or maybe it was the left, was a round lever that fit naturally in your palm, which he would flick every few seconds to move the cursor to the next line. I remember the soft yet sure clicking of the keys, the satisfying sound of ink stamping paper as each letter became interminably embedded on the page. If he made a mistake \u2013 a typo \u2013 there was no delete button! Fixing it meant reloading the typewriter with a fresh sheet of paper and retyping the entire page again, or winding the typewriter back and overtyping the mistake with an X, or simply accepting the textual error.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some typos are acceptable to us. Some bother us a little more. In the transmission of ancient manuscripts, carefully copied by scribes, sometimes mistakes were made. The Hebrew letter yud<\/em> might grow longer and resemble a vav<\/em>, or a long final nun<\/em> might become shorter and be mistaken for a vav<\/em>. Or perhaps it was a vav<\/em> in the first place that became a final nun<\/em>. As we read the Book of Judges, our people\u2019s record of the biblical judges who led the people of Israel after they arrived in the promised land, we read about a judge named Ya\u2019ir. Intriguingly, the Bible tells us that: \u2018He had thirty sons [who] rode on thirty <\/span>\u05e2\u05b2\u05d9\u05b8\u05e8\u05b4\u0596\u05d9\u05dd<\/span> \u2018<\/span><\/i>ayarim<\/span><\/em> and they had thirty <\/span>\u05e2\u05b2\u05d9\u05b8\u05e8\u05b4\u0596\u05d9\u05dd<\/span> \u2018ayarim<\/span><\/em>, called Havot-Ya\u2019ir to this very day, which are in the land of Gilead\u2019 (Judges 10:4). The word <\/span>\u05e2\u05b2\u05d9\u05b8\u05e8\u05b4\u0596\u05d9\u05dd ayarim<\/em> appears twice, yet appears to mean something different each time. Literally, \u05e2\u05b2\u05d9\u05b8\u05e8\u05b4\u0596\u05d9\u05dd ayarim<\/em> means \u2018donkeys\u2019 \u2013 which certainly fits for the first instance. <\/span><\/p>\n

But what about the second?<\/span><\/p>\n

Just one letter makes a difference. Most biblical translations designate the second instance to mean \u2018cities\u2019 or \u2018towns\u2019, \u05e2\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd <\/span>\u2018<\/span><\/i>arim<\/span><\/em> in Hebrew. Rashi explains the extra letter yud<\/em> means that \u2018they owned thirty unwalled municipalities\u2019. Yet, perhaps as the venerable <\/span>Brown-Driver- Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon<\/span><\/em> suggests, it is a textual error or word play (see page 746 for the details). The <\/span>JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh<\/span><\/em> translates it as \u2018rode on thirty burros and owned thirty boroughs\u2019, preserving the homonyms and alliteration in the Hebrew. <\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps an ancient scribe added an extra yud<\/em>. Perhaps it was intentional, perhaps it was a clever joke. It is one of those lines that may have a typo, or may be exactly as it\u2019s meant to be. 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