It was taught in a Baraita that King Ptolemy brought together 72 elders and placed them in 72 separate rooms, without telling them why he had brought them together, and he asked each one of them to translate the Torah. God then prompted each one of them to conceive the same idea and write a number of cases in which the translation did not follow the Masoretic Text, including, for , "For in their anger they slew an "ox", and in their wrath they dug up a stall" — writing "ox" instead of "man" to protect the reputation of Jacob's sons.