mz: To be fair, R’ Schachter once said something similar. He said that the different voices you see in Chumash is because HKBH took pieces from different books and traditions (from the Avos, Sefer Bilam, and things like that) and put His stamp of approval on them when He told Moshe Rabbeinu what to write from them at Sinai. But any and all of those were things that were pre-Sinai (or Arvos Moav, in the case of Bilam, I guess; that bears looking into; maybe Sefer Bilam is not the curses and such but rather only his Nevua of Acharis HaYamim that could have been written down at Sinai) and they only made it into Chumash if HKBH dictated to Moshe Rabbeinu to put them in and exactly how to write them so that we could Darshen them accordingly.
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