Tikkun Soferim

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This is as Rav Ika bar Avin said that Rav Ḥananel said that Rav said: What is the meaning of that which is written: “And they read in the book, in the Torah of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading” (Nehemiah 8:8)? The Gemara explains: “They read in the book, in the Torah of God”; that is the Bible. “Distinctly”; that is the Aramaic translation. “And they gave the sense”; these are the division into verses…

Nedarim 37b:5-8

Similarly it is written: For he who toucheth thee toucheth the apple of his eye (Zech. 2:12). “My eye” should be written here, for it refers, as it were, to the Heavenly One. However, the text was modified by the scribes of the Great Synagogue. The verse Ye say also: “Behold, what a weariness is it! And ye have snuffed at it” (Mal. 1:13) was likewise altered. The verse I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity, in that he knew that his sons did bring a curse on themselves, and he rebuked them not (I Sam. 3:13) was also modified…

Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 16:2

“The men turned from there and went to Sodom, and Abraham was still standing before the Lord” (Genesis 18:22).
“The men turned from there” – this teaches that angels do not have backs to their heads.
“And went to Sodom, and Abraham was still standing before the Lord” – Rabbi Simon said: This is a scribal emendation, as it was [actually] the Divine Presence that was waiting for Abraham.

Bereshit Rabbah 49:7

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