Claim 4 of 6 · Case 03 · Reliability of Scripture
Jewish scribes copied the Old Testament with strict, built in checks for error.
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The people who copied the Hebrew Bible followed careful rules to catch mistakes. This copying culture is part of why the text stayed so stable over time. One honest point about timing is worth naming up front: the strict counting rules described below are documented a few centuries after the Dead Sea Scrolls were copied, even though the broader tradition of careful transmission goes back further.
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The counting rules of the scribes
Counting letters and words and rejecting flawed copies is a deliberate error catching system. That kind of discipline is exactly what would keep a text stable over centuries.