 The Samaritan Pentateuch uses less anthropomorphic language in descriptions of God with intermediaries performing actions the Masoretic version attributes directly to God.Where the Masoretic describes Yahweh as a "man of war" (), the Samaritan has "hero of war", a phrase applied to spiritual beings, and in , the Samaritan reading "The Angel of God found Balaam" contrasts with the Masoretic "And God met Balaam.