Meticulous Jewish Scribes
Before the invention of the printing press, every copy of every manuscript had to be made by hand—painstakingly page after page, line after line, word after word. To prevent errors from being introduced, the Jews developed rules for preventing scribal errors in scrolls used in the synagogue.
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In case you were wondering, the Torah (Pentateuch) has 304,805 letters and 79,976 words in Hebrew. |