[486] Wellhausen calls ver. 18 a gloss to ver. 19.
[487] Massoretic Text, her.
[488] It is at this point, if at any, that i. 10, 11, ii. 1 (Eng., but ii. 1-3 Heb.) ought to come in. It will be observed, however, that even here they are superfluous: And the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor counted; and it shall be in the place where it was said to them, No People of Mine are ye! it shall be said to them, Sons of the Living God! And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up from the land: for great is the day of Jezreel. Say unto your brothers, My People, and to your sisters (LXX. sister), She-is-Pitied. On the whole passage see above, p. [213].
[489] Or that is loved of her husband though an adulteress.
[490] So LXX. The homer was eight bushels. The lethech is a measure not elsewhere mentioned.
[491] On these see above, [Introduction], Chap. III., p. [38].
[492] On the text see above, p. [214].
[493] xi. 9.
[494] As the stories all written down before this had made familiar to Israel.
[495] כי formally introduces the charge.