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<DIV>In a message dated 4/16/2017 <FONT size=2><SPAN class=gD
name="Sholom Simon via Mesorah" email="mesorah@lists.aishdas.org">Sholom Simon
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<P>In four places in Tanakh, our text has an aleph with a dagesh: Gen 43:26,
Lev 23:17, Job 33:21, and Ezra 8:18. What is the significance of
this....?</FONT></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>My ArtScroll Tanach has the alephs you mention in Job and Ezra but not
the two in Chumash. Could those dageshim be simple errors that have crept
in over the centuries?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT><BR><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>--Toby
Katz<BR>t613k@aol.com</STRONG></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#ffffff face=Arial
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