Prior to the whole verse, 4QSam and Josephus (Antiquities 6.5.1. [68-71]) attest to an addition which explains Nahash's practice of enemy mutilation, and by so doing provides a smoother transition to the following paragraph than is found in the Masoretic Text, or Greek Septuagint manuscripts. NRSV renders it as verse 10:27b as follows: "Now Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the Gadites and the Reubenites. He would gouge out the right eye of each of them and would not grant Israel a deliverer. No one was left of the Israelites across the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. But there were 7,000 men who had escaped from the Ammonites and had entered Jabesh Gilead. About a month later, Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh Gilead." The variations may be explained as scribal errors due to homeoteleuton, in which case the scribe jumps from one word to another word with a similar ending later in the text. Comparing to the reading in 4QSam, NET Bible suggests that the scribe of the MT may have skipped from the phrase , vayehi kemakharish, at the end of 1 Samuel 10:27, which should possibly be , vayehi kemo kheresh, and picked up after the phrase , vayehi kemo khodesh, "it happened about a month later...". 4QSam also contains a case of homeoteleuton in this passage, that the scribe first skipped from one case of , Gilʿad, "Gilead", to another, then inserted the missing 10 words between the lines of the 4QSam text. The fact that the scribe made this type of mistake and was able to make corrections indicates that the person was copying from a source that had these verses in it. Moreover, the 4QSam text first introduces Nahash with his full title, as the king of the Ammonites, which is considered the usual style.