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In #1Samuel 20:2, there's an interesting ketiv/qere:
K: לו־עשה
Q: לֹֽא־יַעֲשֶׂ֨הHyphens & vowels were added later & word spacing is unreliable in ancient Hebrew manuscripts, so I wonder if there has been a w/y interchange here, and earlier it read ליעשה with negative L-.
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The principles lectio brevior potior and lectio dificilior which tell us to prefer shorter and more difficult readings are not universally valid. Many accidental errors result in short difficult readings, e.g. 1 Samuel 1:24 MT: וְהַנַּ֖עַר נָֽעַר ("and the boy was a boy").
The thing about difficult readings in scripture is that readers try HARD to make sense. Here almost all English versions translate "the child was young."
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