Manuscript variant · disputed
What the source reads — it is easier for a camel (Greek kámēlos) to pass through the eye of a needle
What this version reads — Aramaic gamla (ܓܡܠܐ) — the same word means both 'camel' and 'rope / ship's cable'
The Peshitta reads gamla, which carries both senses. Aramaic-primacy readers argue the image is a 'rope through a needle's eye'; mainstream scholarship keeps 'camel', reading it as deliberate hyperbole. A genuine lexical ambiguity of the Aramaic — recorded, the choice left open.
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