 The first published edition of this midrash appeared at Venice in the year 1598, prepared from a copy dated 1186.In 1677 an edition by Samuel b. Moses Haida, with changes in the text and with a commentary (דאשא זקוקין דנורא בעורין), appeared in Prague.The text itself was presented in a ""nusḥa ḥadasha"" (new text) and in a ""nusḥa yeshana"" (old text), being wholly distorted from its original form by Talmudic and cabalistic interpolations.