Verse 12
That they may eat their own dung "Destined to eat their own dung" - לאכל leechol , that they may eat, as our translation literally renders it. But the Syriac reads מאכל meechol , that they may not eat, perhaps rightly, and afterward ומשתות umishshethoth , or ושתות ushethoth , to the same purpose. Seventeen of Dr. Kennicott's MSS., ten of De Rossi's and two of my own, read מימי meymey , the water; mine have שניהם מימי meymey sheneyhem , and write in the margin רגליהם מימי meymey regaleyhem , the water of their feet, a modest way of expressing urine.
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