Commentary for Nedarim 74:6

אמר רבי יצחק מקרא סופרים ועיטור סופרים וקריין ולא כתיבן וכתיבן ולא קריין הלכה למשה מסיני

By textual reading is meant words as erez, shamayim, mizraim.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In pause (viz., an ethnahta or sof pasuk) the tone-vowels are lengthened. Since there is nothing in the lettering to indicate this grammatical change, it was the work of the Soferim to teach it. ');">¹¹</span> Stylistic embellishments: e.g., [and comfort ye your hearts;] after that ye shall pass on.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. XVIII, 5. ');">¹²</span>

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