suffered he their manners in the wilderness This expression has the highest MSS. support. Yet the change of one letter in the Greek verb (reading ἐτροφοφόρησεν for ἐτροποφόρησεν) introduces a sense so much more beautiful, and at the same time so thoroughly in accord with the O. T. history and language, that it commends itself for acceptance above the Received Text. The rendering of the modified reading which has the support of many ancient authorities would be "he bare them as a nursing father in the wilderness." This is the expression in Deuteronomy 1:31, where the LXX. have the Greek verb which this slight change would bring in here. There is no such close parallel found in the books of Moses for "he suffered their manners."

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