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Muhammad in the Bible David Benjamin KeldaniEdited & Annotated by: Prof. Dawud M. R. Alhanbali & Prof, Dr. Kaseb A. Albadran ( 22 )TMuhammad (pbuh) is the Shilohhe famous prophecy, which may be considered asthe nucleus of this Testament, is contained in the tenth verse of the forty-ninthchapter of Genesis as follows:“The Sceptre shall not depart from Judah, And the Lawgiver from between his feet, Until the coming of Shiloh,And to him belongeth the obedience of peoples.”This is the literal translation of the Hebrew text as much as I can understand it. There are two words in the text, which are unique and occur nowhere else in the Old Testament. The first of these words is “Shilōh,” and the other “yiqha” or “yiqhath (by construction or contraction).Shilōh is formed of four letters, shín, yod, lámed and hi. There is a “Shiloh,” the proper name of a town in Ephraim, (1 Sam. i., etc.), but there is no yod in it. This name cannot be identical with, orrefer to,the town where the Ark of the Covenant or the Tabernacle was, for until then no sceptre or lawgiver had appeared in the tribe of Judah. The word certainly refers to a person, and not to a place.As far as I can remember, all the versions of the Old Testament have preserved this original Shiloh without giving it a rendering. It is only the Syriac Pshitta (in Arabic called al-Bessita) that hastranslated it