Some details about copying/preserving God’s Word
Clean animal skins 48-60 lines per column
30 letters per column Black ink made w/ a special recipe
Each time they wrote the word Jehovah they had to wash themselves and their entire bodies (Gen 3:8, 9)
They had to have the page reviewed w/I 30 days
If they pages had errors all the pages would be set aside as unusable
If any two letters touched the entire document would be discarded (letter or thread between)
Same amount of lines Same amount of words
Same amount of letters Same amount of each letter
Same amount of letters per line and per page
Center word and letter had to be the same
They were not allowed to be destroyed, they had to be stored or buried
The copyist had to write letter by letter, NOT word by word… NO LETTER or word could be written by memory
Each copy had to be inspected within 30 days. They could correct up to three mistakes. If it had more than three it would have to be buried or stored…
What do you conclude from this information?
BPS outline
I. The place of preserving then
II. The place of preserving now
III. The process of preserving through pen
IV. The process of preserving through printed press
Key passages: Psa 12:6, 7; 68:11; Deut 10:1-5; 2 Pet 1:16-21
