Note 255 — Chapter XLIV · A.D. 1800-1885. THE JEWS IN AFRICA, AMERICA, AND ASIA.—CONCLUSION.
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The Massorites were an inferior description of Scribes, whose profession it was to write out copies of the Hebrew Scriptures; also to teach the people the true readings, as well as to comment on them. They called their work ‘Massora,’ or tradition, because they believed that God gave the Law on Sinai, imparting to Moses, at the same time, the true interpretation.