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Part of the explanation for the virtual lack of differences between the copies of MT in early times and through the centuries, may be found in rabbinic traditions regarding precision in the copying of scrolls: the existence of master copies of the Torah books in the Temple Court,¹⁶ and the correction procedure of scrolls according to these master copies. On the basis of these traditions, it may be postulated that the Judean Desert scrolls were in fact »corrected copies« that circulated in ancient Israel.