Acts 7:16 evn Suce,m {C}

The author has combined the accounts of two transactions: (a) Abraham bought a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite in Machpelah east of Hebron ( Genesis 23:3-20), where Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, Leah, and Jacob were buried ( Genesis 49:31; Genesis 50:13), and (b) Joseph was buried in a plot that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Schechem ( Genesis 33:19; Joshua 24:32). Except for the two passages just mentioned, in the Old Testament Shechem is always the name of a place, not of a person. The variant readings in Acts 7:16 reflect the two traditions concerning the name Shechem, except that the Western and Antiochian texts reverse the relationship, making Shechem the father instead of the son of Hamor. In seeking an explanation to account for the curious reading tou/ (î74 Dgr al), it should be observed that the Harclean Syriac reads “who was from Shechem”; could it be that para, or avpo, has fallen out of the archetype of the Western group of witnesses?

All things considered, the Committee judged evn to be the least unsatisfactory reading, supported, as it is, by a* B C 88 1739 copsa, bo, fay arm geo al.

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