Note 235 — Chapter III · THE EXODUS OUT OF EGYPT (continued 2)
Reading edition
Those who wish to see what can be done by ingenious philological conjectures which satisfy none but their authors may turn to a paper by Professor Budde in the Actes du Dixième Congrès Internationale des Orientalistes, iii. pp. 13-18, where they will find a ‘revised’ version of Numb. xxi. 17, 18. The two last lines are changed into ‘With the sceptre, with their staves: From the desert a gift!’