Matthew 2:18 klauqmo,j {B}

The longer reading, qrh/noj kai. klauqmo,j, appears to be a scribal assimilation to the Septuagint text of Jeremiah 31:15 (LXX 38:15). It entered the Textus Receptus and lies behind the rendering of the AV, “lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning.”

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Old Testament