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PHOTOGRAPHY BY ARDON BAR-HAMA, SPONSORED BY GEORGE S. BLUMENTHAL

In this detail of 2 Samuel 12:7 from the Aleppo Codex, Nathan’s brusque accusation—wayyomer natan ’el-dawid ’atta ha-’ish, “And Nathan said to David: ‘You are the man!’”—is set apart with a “closed” setuma break before it, here broken across two lines so that the statement is indented on its own line, and followed one line later by another “closed” setuma break, before the text proceeds with the remainder of the verse.