<p class="footnote" id="pz97-7"><a href="#fn08_3.96"><b>3.96</b></a> <span epub:type="footnote" id="nf08_3.96" role="doc-footnote">– <em>Surely the first House laid down for the people was indeed that at Becca</em></span></p>
<p class="footnote" id="pz97-8">To what does the Arabic word <em>bakka</em> (Becca) refer? A number of Muslim translations of this verse make it another name for Mecca. But the word <em>makka</em> only appears once in the Quran, at 48.24. In Arabic script, the letter <em>bā</em>’ is quite a different shape from the <em>mīm</em>.</p>
<p class="footnote" id="pz97-9">As for “the House” where Abraham stood up to pray (v. 97), see the comments at 2.124.</p>