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• Writings of the Early Church Fathers

The Variorum Bible is useful in learning about a great number of variant word renderings, but it does
not contain all possible variants. The editors did not include variant renderings they deemed to be
implausible, and undoubtedly a significant number of possible interpretations remained unknown
to them. Following are a couple of examples of variant readings that I find interesting which are not
mentioned in the Variorum Bible.

Crows and Camels

Most Christians are familiar with the story found in I Kings of Elijah being instructed to hide himself
at the Brook Cherith during a time of famine. Yahweh promised to feed the prophet there. All of the
popular English Bibles tell us that Yahweh used ravens to bring Elijah his daily food.

I Kings 17:4-6
And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee
there. So he went and did according unto the word of the Lord: for he went and dwelt by the brook
Cherith, that is before Jordan. And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread
and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
KJV

Although this appears to be a miraculous account of Yahweh’s provision for one of His servants, and
the Bible contains numerous accounts of animals behaving in extraordinary ways at Yahweh’s
command, some have been troubled by the fact that the raven is an unclean bird.

Leviticus 11:13-15
These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle
and the vulture and the buzzard, and the kite and the falcon in its kind, every raven in its kind...