The Masoretic Text — This refers to the Hebrew Bible (both today and from early days) and is the basis for some English Bible translations of the Old Testament from Hebrew and Aramaic, specifically the King James Version, the English Standard Version, the New International Version, the New American Standard Bible and some Catholic Bibles. The earliest complete document of the Masoretic Text that we have found is the Leningrad Codex from the 11th century.
More to come about the Masoretes and how this Text came about from ancient mauscripts.
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