Obama, The Bible, and Taxes

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Obama, The Bible, and Taxes
Feb 2, 2012



Obama offended many people yesterday with his abuse of our Heavenly Father, and His Son's teachings.
First, let's go to USA TODAY's article Obama: 'We can't leave our moral values at the door' and read the article at the link.



Next, let's go to the Bible and get the full contest of the verse Luke 12:48 KJV.
To do that we have to start at Luke verse 1 and read.

... he began to say unto his disciples first of all,
Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed;
neither hid, that shall not be known.
Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light;
and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
And I say unto you my friends,
Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear:
Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell;
yea, I say unto you,
Fear him.


How revealing that Obama chose a reference in the Bible that was talking about spiritual hypocrisy
to try to deceive people into thinking it was talking about taxes.
Let's read on in verse 6 of Luke 12.

Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings,
and not one of them is forgotten before God?
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Also I say unto you,
Whosoever shall confess me before men,
him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:
But he that denieth me before men
shall be denied before the angels of God.
And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him:
but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost
it shall not be forgiven.
And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers,
take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
And one of the company said unto him,
Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.
And he said unto him,
Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?
And he said unto them,
Take heed, and beware of covetousness:
for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
And he spake a parable unto them, saying,
The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
And he thought within himself, saying,
What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
And he said,
This will I do:
I will pull down my barns, and build greater;
and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
And I will say to my soul,
Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years;
take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
But God said unto him,
Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee:
then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
And he said unto his disciples,
Therefore I say unto you,
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat;
neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
Consider the ravens:
for they neither sow nor reap;
which neither have storehouse nor barn;
and God feedeth them:
how much more are ye better than the fowls?
And which of you with taking thought
can add to his stature one cubit?
If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least,
why take ye thought for the rest?
Consider the lilies how they grow:
they toil not, they spin not;
and yet I say unto you,
that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
If then God so clothe the grass,
which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven;
how much more will he clothe you,
O ye of little faith?
And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink,
neither be ye of doubtful mind.
For all these things do the nations of the world seek after:
and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
But rather seek ye the kingdom of God;
and all these things shall be added unto you.
Fear not, little flock;
for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Sell that ye have, and give alms;
provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not,
where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord,
when he will return from the wedding;
that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching:
verily I say unto you,
that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat,
and will come forth and serve them.
And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so,
blessed are those servants.
And this know,
that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come,
he would have watched,
and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
Be ye therefore ready also:
for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
Then Peter said unto him,
Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?
And the Lord said,
Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household,
to give them their portion of meat in due season?
Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Of a truth I say unto you,
that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.
But and if that servant say in his heart,
My lord delayeth his coming;
and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens,
and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him,
and at an hour when he is not aware,
and will cut him in sunder,
and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself,
neither did according to his will,
shall be beaten with many stripes.
But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required:
and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.


Now that verse that Obama has chosen, is a warning to be spiritually prepared for Jesus's second coming.
It's NOT about taxes.
But let's read on in Luke 12: 48-53.

But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required:
and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

I am come to send fire on the earth;
and what will I, if it be already kindled?
But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth?
I tell you,
Nay; but rather division:
For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided,
three against two, and two against three.
The father shall be divided against the son,
and the son against the father;
the mother against the daughter,
and the daughter against the mother;
the mother in law against her daughter in law,
and the daughter in law against her mother in law.


So. Let me put this into clear terms.
This is about spiritual wisdom.

For unto whomsoever much [ Spiritual wisdom] is given, of him shall be much [spiritual deeds] required:
and to whom men have committed much
[spiritual effort and wisdom],
of him they will ask the more
[spiritual effort and wisdom] .

Is this making sense to you now?

The Bible and Taxes

First Jesus of the New Testament is also the LORD of the Old Testament.
For proof just read John 1:1-16.
Now the Bible addresses taxes in times of famine and war in Genesis 41:34 and says "take up a fifth part" or no more than 20 percent.
Let read it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
And there shall arise after them seven years of famine;
and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt;
and the famine shall consume the land;
And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following;
for it shall be very grievous.
And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice;
it is because the thing is established by God,
and God will shortly bring it to pass.
Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh,
and let them keep food in the cities.
And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine,
which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
And Pharaoh said unto his servants,
Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph,
Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art

Did you get that?
Not more than twenty percent, even in times of famine or war.

Let's go to Exodus 30:11-15 for the "fairness" of taxes and how God told us to implement them.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number,
then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them;
that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered,
half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary:
(a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
Every one that passeth among them that are numbered , from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less
than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD,
to make an atonement for your souls.

Did you get that?

The rich shall NOT give more, and the poor shall NOT give less
That sounds like a flat tax to me, for income tax.

Now let's read Leviticus 27:30-34.

And all the tithe of the land,
whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree,
is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD.
And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod,
the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.
He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it:
and if he change it at all,
then both it and the change thereof shall be holy;
it shall not be redeemed.
These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.


For those of you that don't know, a "tithe" is a tenth.
So, the normal tax rate for ALL people during normal times is 10 percent.

Inheritance Taxes are addressed in Proverbs 13:22, Ezekiel 46:18, Proverbs 19:14, I Chronicles 28:8, and Ezra 9:12.

So, after all of this information, I ask,

"Is Obama's tax policies Biblical?"
"Does Barack Hussein Obama II have respect for the Bible and our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus?"

I think not!

[Yosemitest]

So, what do you think?
Rush, I'd like your comments on this.

[Rappini]

Barry Soetoro brings new meaning to the “N” word.

[Yosemitest]

Here are some RELATED LINKS:

Obama: Biblical principles prompted me to push for Dodd-Frank and Obamacare February 2, 2012 by Tina Korbe

Orrin Hatch: 'Someone Needs to Remind Obama There Was Only One Person Who Walked on Water' Feb 02, 2012 09:40 PM EST, by Erika Johnsen

'Unto whom much is given, much shall be required': Obama reveals his Christian faith is behind call for wealthy to pay more taxes 4:59 PM on 2nd February 2012 By Mark Duell

Obama: Jesus would back my tax-the-rich policy By Charles Riley @CNNMoney February 2, 2012: 4:12 PM ET

[MrB]

yeah, Nimrod, an anti-Christ.

[stormhill]

Thank you for bringing clarity; I find few things more frustrating than a politician distorting scripture to push an unbiblical agenda because the people have become so biblically illiterate they'll believe any lie. This is by design; they didn't ban the Bible from schoolrooms for no reason.

As an aside, how about the concept that what the rich have was "given" to them? Most people have sacrificed heroically for whatever they have.

[Yosemitest]

You might enjoy reading Aitken's BIBLE ENDORSED BY CONGRESS.

We need to reprint this great piece of our history and give it to the public again, with the appropriate page below.

Aitken's Bible

Aitken published Congress's recommendation of September 1782 and related documents (Item 115)
as an imprimatur on the two pages following his title page.
Aitken's Bible, published under Congressional patronage,
was the first English language Bible published on the North American continent.

[Republic Rocker]

Imagine if Bush said “ Jesus says..” !

[Army Air Corps]

Bookmark

[Theophilus]

Matthew 17
24 And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?
25 He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?
26 Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.
27 Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

[Yosemitest]

Rush ended his radio show talking about this issue with a caller, and again, with Ken Hutcherson.
Here's some of the transcript from those two articles.

Jesus Endorses Barack Obama
February 03, 2012

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Ted in Suffolk, Virginia. Hi. I'm glad you waited. It's Open Line Friday.
Hello.

CALLER: It's an honor to talk to you, Rush. I appreciate you taking my call.
I take exception with Obama's misuse of Scripture to promote his personal agenda concerning the capital gains tax and raising the taxes.
If he really understood what this Scripture meant, it really means just the opposite.
It means personal stewardship, personal accountability.
It really says that every one of us born in this world is gifted to produce.
Gifted so that we can give back to our families, provide for ourselves.
It does also say that, you know, some of us have more gifts than others.
But everyone is a "10" at least one thing so that we all can provide and contribute to ourselves and our family and the community.

RUSH: At the risk of being disrespectful because I clearly don't mean to be,
but since Obama has a direct line to Jesus --

CALLER: (chuckling)

RUSH: -- I'd like him to ask a question.

CALLER: Yeah. RUSH: "Dear sir: Where are we supposed to get the money
that we are then to give everybody else?"

CALLER: Right.

RUSH: I mean, where does it come from?

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: Charity is wonderful, but you have to have it to give it away.

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: How do you get it?

CALLER: Yeah. And that Scripture doesn't say
that some of us are incapacitated
where we can't get any gain, where we need everybody else.
It does say
that everyone -- every single person born with our DNA --
we have the gifting to be able to provide for ourselves.

RUSH: Well, this is what I find offensive about it is
the attempt to attach virtue to poverty.
It's an unfortunate thing, and they need care and attention and so forth.
There's the right kind of compassion, too, which is aimed at getting them up and out of it.
Not maintaining them there with constant, never-ending sympathy so that they all vote for you.
The whole notion that
Obama's got a direct line to Jesus
and Jesus would agree with doing everything we can to see to it
that people don't work
and that we just "take care of" those who don't work?
This attaching virtue to this... It's a typical liberal trick.

You know, at Christmas back in the eighties and in the early nineties, when homelessness was all the rage,
guess who were the poster people for homelessness?
Mary and Joseph!
Mary and Joseph.
Every one of us was just a paycheck away from being Mary and Joseph. They were "homeless."
They were trundling through the Middle East.
They were desperately looking for the inn.
They didn't guarantee their reservation with the American Express Card.
They got there, their room had been given away to the mules,
and they were in trouble.
But they were the modern equivalent of the homeless.
They were the modern equivalent of Mary and Joseph.
So the left always try these kinds of things. It's highly offensive.
I totally understand.
And this is from a guy who has a brother living in a six-by-nine-foot hut, by the way!
Don't forget that. Not even a sign that says "Home, Sweet Hut" anywhere.

END TRANSCRIPT

Related Links


• CNN: Obama: Jesus Would Back My Tax-the-Rich Policy
  
  

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And here's part of Rush's second article talking to Reverend Dr. Ken Hutcherson.

The Hutch Talks Politics and Super Bowl
February 03, 2012

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: We happily welcome back to our program the Reverend Dr. Ken Hutcherson who joins us from the Antioch Bible Church in Seattle.
I assume you're at church. You might be at home.
Welcome back to the program, Hutch.
How are you, sir?

THE HUTCH: (chuckling) May I say, brother: You are a sick man.

RUSH: (laughing)

CALLER: Obama's brother doesn't have "Home, Sweet Hut," anywhere?

RUSH: Sick?

THE HUTCH: "Home, Sweet Hut." (laughing)

RUSH: (laughing) He's got a brother that lives in Kenya in a six-by-nine-foot hut.

THE HUTCH: (laughing)

RUSH: And he's got an aunt that just last year got running water in her house.

THE HUTCH: (laughing)

RUSH: This guy lives on a dollar a month.

THE HUTCH: Whew!

RUSH: $20 would make such a difference to this guy's life, and Obama won't come across.
But he's talking to Jesus.

THE HUTCH: (laughing) Hey, you know, you're talking to the right man when you say what Jesus has to say.

RUSH: Yeah, but the scary thing is Jesus talking back to him, Hutch.

THE HUTCH: (laughing)

RUSH: He thinks He is.

THE HUTCH: (laughing)

RUSH: Look what He's telling him!

THE HUTCH: Well, he's definitely not telling him Scripture, because Scripture tells me:
If a man don't work, he don't eat.

RUSH: Exactly right.

THE HUTCH: Hey, you gotta be praying for your brother up here, man.
We're fighting for our life up here.

RUSH: Let me reintroduce Dr. Hutcherson. He is affectionately known as "The Hutch."
Dr. Hutcherson presided at the wedding of myself and the lovely Kathryn -- the greatest, best wife ever.
And he is a former linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys, the Seattle Seahawks, and the San Diego Chargers in the National Football League.
He currently is a pastor in Seattle.
You were the "mike" linebacker. What was your number?

THE HUTCH: I was number 59, my brother.

RUSH: Number 59.
And at the time he played with the Cowboys, "Too Tall" Jones was on the team with that group.

...[ click here for more of the article] ...

{continued]

RUSH: Well, that's the old argument: General manager and owner don't go together.
Let's get to the Super Bowl. Are you excited about this one?

THE HUTCH: I'm excited. I'm excited. But you still have...
I gotta get you to pray for me, brother, like I said.
We're fighting for our life up here.
We had four Republican be stab me in the back up here,
and they voted for same-sex marriage, bro,
and we lost in the Senate.
We've still got the House to go and that is just absolutely ridiculous of what's going on --
and, bro? We're gonna win.

RUSH: Did they lie to you?

THE HUTCH: We're gonna win,
but these Republicans are never gonna be sitting again when we have our next election.

RUSH: Did they mislead you?
Did they lead you to believe that they were not gonna vote the way they did?

THE HUTCH: Well, a bunch of them was going back and forth. Sitting on the fence, back and forth.
Sitting on the fence, sitting on the fence, and we knew that we had one that was gonna go,
which was probably gonna take 'em over, but we had three go.
And if they woulda stayed we woulda won the Senate by one vote.
And, people, we need you.
You all need to be praying for us, if they want to keep up what I'm doing, I hope.
Can I give my blog out?

RUSH: Yeah, sure.

THE HUTCH: If anyone wants to keep up with us it's the HutchPost.org. Www.HutchPost.org.
We gonna win this fight, bro, because I don't know what it means to lose.

RUSH: What do you...? Hutch Post, P-o-s-t?

THE HUTCH: Mmm-hmm.

RUSH: HutchPost.org.

THE HUTCH: Yes.

RUSH: The Hutch, a man of the cloth, is doing the Lord's work.

THE HUTCH: You wanted to ask me a question about the loss of jobs, didn't you?

RUSH: Say that again?

THE HUTCH: I heard you say in the second hour you wanted to ask The Hutch,
"How can these numbers with that many jobs lost be a positive?"

RUSH: Yeah. Yeah. Do you get an answer for this?

THE HUTCH: Oh, absolutely! You know I do.
It is [Million Man] Math Made Easy by Louis Farrakhan.

RUSH: (laughing)

THE HUTCH: (laughing)

RUSH: Louis Farrakhan's Math Made Easy!
Have you ever thought about running for office rather than --

THE HUTCH: I did.

RUSH: -- rely on these guys?

THE HUTCH: You know, I did.
Before Bush ran the first time I was courted and was asked ten different times to run for the presidency.

RUSH: (laughing)

THE HUTCH: And I said,
"No, I'm called by God --
and I have a lot more power as a pastor than I would as president."
Plus, people won't be looking at me as much in my own house, see?

RUSH: (laughing)

THE HUTCH: (laughing)

RUSH: We're talking to Dr. Ken Hutcherson, former linebacker in the National Football League
and now Antioch Bible Church. He is the pastor there.

THE HUTCH: Thank you.

RUSH: The fortunate pastor presided my wedding on June 5th.
Now, Hutch, let's go to the Super Bowl. You keep trying to avoid talking about this.
Every time I bring it up you go to gay marriage
or you go to the fact you ran for president or you want to talk about Math Made Easy.
What is it?

THE HUTCH: (laughing) I just don't want you to be wrong, that's all.

RUSH: How do you know where I'm going on this?

THE HUTCH: I think you do. You gotta go with the Patriots, right?

RUSH: Why do I have to go with the Patriots?

THE HUTCH: (garbled)

... ...

END TRANSCRIPT



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One other thing, let's NOT FORGET that

Charity must be voluntary and Taxes are mandatory!

[Yosemitest]

Let's read Matthew 22:14-22.

For many are called, but few are chosen.
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying,
Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth,
neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.
Tell us therefore,
What thinkest thou?
Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?
But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said,
Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
Shew me the tribute money.
And they brought unto him a penny.
And he saith unto them,
Whose is this image and superscription?
They say unto him,
Caesar's.
Then saith he unto them,
Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's;
and unto God the things that are God's.
When they had heard these words,
they marvelled, and left him,
and went their way.

Martin G. Selbrede wrote an article in The Covenant News on January 25, 2009 titled Taxation, Liberty, and the Bible.
In it, he had a paragraph called “Rendering unto Caesar” that, I believe, covers this Bible quote very well.

“Rendering unto Caesar”

The tribute money episode in Matt. 22:17-21 is not about taxes but about sovereignty.
God’s Law forbids the use of graven images.
In the days of Jesus, Jewish shekels were free of idolatrous images, but the Roman denarii were not.
Jesus had to call for someone to produce a denarius
because neither He nor His disciples used them.
That the Jews used forbidden coins was evidence that theirs was a nation under God’s judgment, by way of Roman subjugation.
The Jews’ inquiry about the denarius earned them Christ’s rebuke of being “hypocrites” (v. 18).
Christ’s command was FIRST to the Jews to
“give back to Caesar that which is his.”
It was an indictment of Jewish apostasy that they used such coins at all.
SECOND, Christ’s command was to Caesar
to “render unto God” what was God’s due,
for Caesar was not exempt from God’s demands.
God and Caesar are not two equal authorities independently ruling different spheres with absolute power:
rather, Caesar and all civil rulers are subordinated to Christ by God’s explicit command (Psalm 2:10-12).
In Romans 13, Paul calls civil magistrates “servants of God” answerable to Him as such.
Rome considered Paul’s command to pray for the king (1 Tim. 2:1-2) as blasphemous
because Paul was expected to pray to the emperor, not for the emperor.
Rome claimed sovereignty, which belongs only to God.

[Theophilus]

Great Post!

I've added CovenentNews to my homepage.

Thanks and God Bless!

[Yosemitest]

Thank you.
May I recommend ( ? )

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With the Structures and Notes, Critical, Explanatory and Suggestive and With 198 Appendices

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[Theophilus]

May I recommend ( ? )

Sure, but why? What do you really like about it vs. any other KJV?

[Yosemitest]

Without having one to show you, this is not going to be so easy to describe.
First, my eyes aren't what they use to be, so I like the Large text.
Second, I like the side notes and cross references on each page.
Third, I like the 198 Appendixes.
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The Structures and Notes, Critical, Explanatory and Suggestive, and with 198 Appendixes is unlike any other Bible I've seen.
Go to E. W. Bullinger, From Wikipedia and read about the author. Look at this sample page below.


I guess the best way I could describe it, is to send you to learn about THE MASSORAH.

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It does not contain notes or comments as such, but facts and phenomena.
...
This Massorah is not contained in the margins of any one MS.
No MS. contains the whole, or even the same part.
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...
This is the first time that an edition of the A.V. has been given containing any of these treasures of the Massorah, that affect so seriously the understanding of the Text.
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It should be worth your time and money to check it out, because it has been a great help to me.