TO STRAY, to wander off, to err — and in its causative, to lead astray. The congregation that errs unknowingly at Leviticus 4:13 (already on these pages) does it with this verb. ⭐ Deuteronomy 27:18 curses he who leads a blind man astray on the road, mashgeh, and that participle stands in three verses of the Hebrew Bible — this one, Job 12:16, where God owns the deceived and the deceiver, and Proverbs 28:10, whoever leads the upright astray on an evil road shall fall into his own pit (neither yet on these pages); a fourth verse, Genesis 43:12 (already on these pages), spells a noun with the same letters, the oversight Jacob hopes the returned silver was. ⚠ The Psalter uses it of the way itself: let me not stray from your commandments (Psalm 119:10) and you have rebuked the proud, the cursed, who stray from your commandments (Psalm 119:21; neither yet on these pages) — Deuteronomy 27’s first word and its eighteenth verse’s verb in one line. A sister root, shagag, gives shegagah, the unintentional sin of Leviticus 4. The KJV reads ‘maketh the blind to wander out of the way’, the Geneva ‘maketh the blind go out of the way’, the NWT 1984 ‘causes the blind to go astray’; the RV 1909 and RV60 «hiciere errar al ciego», the NVI «desvíe de su camino a un ciego». → first discussed at Deut 27:18