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Above, we focused on aspects of the inconsistent spelling of MT. Here we note that despite these inconsistencies, the Masoretic corpus should be taken as constituting one organic unit because in a number of features, early and late books reflect the same practice in contrast to other texts, mainly those found at Qumran. Thus, it is remarkable that the following words are consistently spelled defectively in MT starting with the proto-MT scrolls and this same defective spelling is found in the proto-MT scrolls as well:

1. /o/ sounds in ,משה ,כל ,מאד²²אלהים ,כהן ,כח

2. /o/ sounds in the same word pattern:²³בקר חדש ,אהל,קדש

3. the archaic form of the name of Jerusalem as ירושלם²⁴

4. /u/ sound in נאם

Likewise, it is remarkable that the following words are always spelled with full spelling (plene):

1. נביא in the singular.

2. The word מדוע.²⁵

3. The pattern qatol (vowels a‒o), e.g., ,כבוד ,טהור²⁶ שלום.²⁷

4. The full spelling of the name פינחס is notable.²⁸

These spelling practices most likely were developed first for the writing of the Torah, and were adopted from there to the writing of the later books.