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Masoretic text for a full discussion of their work. See for the role of the masoretes. The Karaite ben Asher family is responsible for the preservation and production of the Masoretic Text, which all current Hebrew Bibles are based upon.
Their system of notes represents the literary labors of innumerable scholars, of which the beginning falls probably in pre-Maccabean times and the end reaches to the year 1425 CE.
See also: Masoretic text