Qere and Ketiv refers to a system for marking differences between what is written in the consonantal text of the Hebrew Bible, as preserved by scribal tradition, and what is read. In such situations,
An image from the Masoretic Aleppo Codex of Deuteronomy 33, containing a qere and ketiv in the second column, the fifth line, the second word (33:9). The ketiv is "Beno" - "his son" בְּנוֹ, while the qere is "banaw" - "his sons" בָּנָיו.
The Masoretic Text is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible in Rabbinic Judaism. The Masoretic Text defines the Jewish canon and its precise letter-text, with i
Carpet page from the Leningrad Codex, the oldest complete manuscript of the Masoretic Text