shall be blocked. The
Masoretic Text reads wenastem, “and you shall flee,” but the strong
scholarly consensus is that the word should be revocalized to show wenistam,
as it does in some Hebrew manuscripts and in three ancient versions.
. . .
with Him. The Masoretic
reading is “with you,” but almost all the ancient versions have “with Him.” (Robert
Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company,
2019], 2:1382, 1383)
