James Price blunders on supposed emendations in the Masoretic Text by the AV

[Steven Avery]

Hebrew Masoretic Text vs the KJV

In a recent post in another thread, The Masoretic readings which the King James Bible is based on are inerrant. The King James Bible is based upon the Ben Chayyim text except in the following two passages: Joshua 21:36-37 and Nehemiah 7:68. Those are the only two exceptions. According to...

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[Steven Avery]

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Ginsburg noted that Jacob ben Chayim "decided to omit them [Joshua 21:36-37) in accordance with a certain school of Massorites" (Introduction, p. 965). Kyle

Christian David Ginsburg is important on Hebrew Bible text questions.
Your quote snips vital information.

Introduction of the Massoretico-critical edition of the Hebrew Bible
Christian David Ginsburg, 1831-1914
https://books.google.com/books?id=0sALTqq2ZSgC&pg=PA965
http://www.archive.org/stream/introductionofma00ginsuoft#page/964/mode/2up

These important glosses are no part of the Massorah, but record the result of Jacob b. Chayim's own collation. They disclose the fact that some of the model Codices and the Massoretic Annotators not unfrequently differed in their readings, and that Jacob b. Chayim had to exercise his own judgment as to which was the better reading. In this respect a modern editor is not bound to abide by Jacob b. Chayim's decision. A striking illustration of this fact we have in the two verses of Joshua XXI viz 36, 37. We have seen that some of the best MSS and all the early editions without exception have these two verses. Jacob b. Chayim, however, decided to omit them in accordance with a certain School of Massorites, but we are perfectly justified in restoring them on the authority which we have adduced.