Jerome marked these additions with an obelus before them to distinguish them from the rest of the text.[13] He says that because those parts "are spread throughout the whole world, [we] have appended by banishing and placing them after the spit (or "obelus"), so we will not be seen among the unlearned to have cut off a large part of the scroll."[14]
Mar'aanu wax kawaydiinay shaxda ay garoonka lasoo gali doonaan, waxa uu yidhi; "Koox ahaan, xidigaha Geeska waxa kujira ciyaartooyo badan oo kubada ku caan ahaa, dhamaan cida noo ciyaari doonta ama aanu garoonka lasoo gali doonaa waa Fanaaniinta aad wada taqaanaan, kuma jiraan cid kale qudhayada ayaaba isku badan, tabobar aanu ugu diyaar garoobaynana waanu wadnaa."