The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part 9

is sometimes written as a horizontal stroke over the preceding vowel. The chief characteristic of the text is a tendency to agree with combinations of DEM against the Codex Alexandrinus a 5th-century manuscript of the Bible; an exception occurs in l. 20.

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...the labor of my hands God saw and rebuked you yesterday. And Laban answered and said to Jacob: "The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the cattle are my cattle, and all that you see is mine. And of my daughters what shall I do to these today, or to their children whom I bore? Now therefore come, let us make a covenant, I and you, and it shall be for a testimony between me and you." And he said to him, "Behold, no one is with us. Behold, God is witness between me and you." And Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar; and Jacob said to his brothers, "Gather stones." And they gathered stones and made a mound...

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...He set it up. "The mound bears witness," Laban said to Jacob. "Behold this mound and the pillar which I set up between me and you; witness the mound, and witness this pillar." Therefore its name was called "Mound of Witness," and the vision which he saw, may God witness between me and you that I will not pass...