Translation choice · documented
What the source reads — the skin of his face shone / sent out rays (Hebrew qāran)
What this version reads — his face was horned (Latin cornuta esset facies sua)
The Hebrew qāran ('to send out rays') shares its root with qeren ('horn'). Jerome chose the horns. Centuries of horned-Moses art — Michelangelo's statue among them — descend from this one word.
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