Comparing: Septuagint / Hebrew Bible
- LXX Genesis
- LXX Genesis 1:28 / Genesis 1:28
- LXX Genesis 2:2 / Genesis 2:2
- LXX Genesis 3:5 / Genesis 3:5
- LXX Genesis 3:9 / Genesis 3:9
- LXX Genesis 3:15 / Genesis 3:15
- LXX Genesis 3:16 / Genesis 3:16 / Jubilees 3:24
- LXX Genesis 3:23 / Genesis 3:23
- LXX Genesis 4:7 / Genesis 4:7
- LXX Genesis 4:8 / Genesis 4:8
- LXX Genesis 4:26 / Genesis 4:26
- LXX Genesis 5:6 / Genesis 5:6
- LXX Genesis 5:26 / Genesis 5:26
- LXX Genesis 6:4 / Genesis 6:4
- LXX Genesis 6:6 / Genesis 6:6
- LXX Genesis 7:4 / Genesis 7:4
- LXX Genesis 7:11 / Genesis 7:11
- LXX Genesis 8:5 / Genesis 8:5
- LXX Genesis 8:7 / Genesis 8:7
- LXX Genesis 8:21 / Genesis 8:21
- LXX Genesis 9:15 / Genesis 9:15
- LXX Genesis 10:2 / Genesis 10:2
- LXX Genesis 10:9 / Genesis 10:9
- LXX Genesis 11:4 / Genesis 11:4
- LXX Genesis 11:10 / Genesis 11:10
- LXX Genesis 11:12 / Genesis 11:12 / Jubilees 8:1 / Luke 3:36
- LXX Genesis 12:16 / Genesis 12:16
- LXX Genesis 12:20 / Genesis 12:20
- LXX Genesis 13:12 / Genesis 13:12
- LXX Genesis 14:15 / Genesis 14:15
- LXX Genesis 15:11 / Genesis 15:11
- LXX Genesis 21:6 / Genesis 21:6
- LXX Genesis 21:9 / Genesis 21:9 / Jubilees 17:4
- LXX Genesis 21:16 / Genesis 21:16
- LXX Genesis 22:2 / Genesis 22:2
- LXX Genesis 22:2 / Genesis 22:2 / Jubilees 18:2
- LXX Genesis 24:22 / Genesis 24:22
- LXX Genesis 29:17 / Genesis 29:17 / Jubilees 28:5
- LXX Genesis 29:26 / Genesis 29:26
- LXX Genesis 31:33 / Genesis 31:33
- LXX Genesis 32:28 / Genesis 32:28 / Wisdom of Solomon 10:12
- LXX Genesis 33:18 / Genesis 33:18
- LXX Genesis 34:17 / Genesis 34:17
- LXX Genesis 37:28 / Genesis 37:28
- LXX Genesis 46:27 / Genesis 46:27
- LXX Genesis 49:5 / Genesis 49:5
- LXX Genesis 49:10 / Genesis 49:10
- LXX Exodus
- LXX Exodus 3:14 / Exodus 3:14
- LXX Exodus 4:20 / Exodus 4:20
- LXX Exodus 4:24 / Exodus 4:24
- LXX Exodus 12:40 / Exodus 12:40
- LXX Exodus 15:3 / Exodus 15:3
- LXX Exodus 21:6 / Exodus 21:6
- LXX Exodus 21:22 / Exodus 21:22
- LXX Exodus 22:27 / Exodus 22:27
- LXX Exodus 24:10 / Exodus 24:10
- LXX Exodus 33:2 / Exodus 33:2
- LXX Leviticus
- LXX Leviticus 17:4 / Leviticus 17:4
- LXX Numbers
- LXX Numbers 4:14 / Numbers 4:14
- LXX Numbers 12:8 / Numbers 12:8
- LXX Numbers 12:8 / Numbers 12:8 / Onkelos Numbers 12:8
- LXX Numbers 14:45 / Numbers 14:45
- LXX Numbers 16:24 / Numbers 16:24
- LXX Numbers 21:30 / Numbers 21:30
- LXX Numbers 24:17 / Numbers 24:17
- LXX Numbers 27:12 / Numbers 27:12
- LXX Deuteronomy
- LXX Deuteronomy 6:3 / Deuteronomy 6:3
- LXX Deuteronomy 8:2 / Deuteronomy 8:2
- LXX Deuteronomy 12:5 / Deuteronomy 12:5
- LXX Deuteronomy 16:7 / Deuteronomy 16:7
- LXX Deuteronomy 16:7 / 2 Chronicles 35:13
- LXX Deuteronomy 23:17 / Deuteronomy 23:17
- LXX Deuteronomy 26:12 / Deuteronomy 26:12
- LXX Deuteronomy 31:1 / Deuteronomy 31:1
- LXX Deuteronomy 32:8 / Deuteronomy 32:8
- LXX Deuteronomy 32:17 / Deuteronomy 32:17
- LXX Deuteronomy 32:43 / Job 38:7
- LXX Deuteronomy 32:43 / Deuteronomy 32:43
- LXX Deuteronomy 33:2 / Deuteronomy 33:2
- LXX Joshua
- LXX Joshua 2:15 / Joshua 2:15
- LXX Joshua 4:10 / Joshua 4:10
- LXX Joshua 5:11 / Joshua 5:11
- LXX Joshua 6:25 / Joshua 6:26
- LXX Joshua 8:12 / Joshua 8:12
- LXX Joshua 24:5 / Joshua 24:5
- LXX Joshua 24:27 / Joshua 24:27
- LXX Joshua 24:31 / Joshua 24:30
- LXX Judges
- LXX Judges 4:8 / Judges 4:8
- LXX Judges 4:11 / Judges 4:11
- LXX Judges 5:8 / Judges 5:8
- LXX Judges 5:21 / Judges 5:21
- LXX Judges 6:16 / Judges 6:16
- LXX 1 Samuel
- LXX 1 Samuel 1:24 / 1 Samuel 1:24
- LXX 1 Samuel 3:13 / 1 Samuel 3:13
- LXX 1 Samuel 4:1 / 1 Samuel 4:1
- LXX 1 Samuel 4:8 / 1 Samuel 4:8
- LXX 1 Samuel 6:19 / 1 Samuel 6:19
- LXX 1 Samuel 9:12 / 1 Samuel 9:12
- LXX 1 Samuel 9:16 / Exodus 3:7 / 1 Samuel 9:16
- LXX 1 Samuel 9:24 / 1 Samuel 9:24
- LXX 1 Samuel 13:2 / 1 Samuel 13:3
- LXX 1 Samuel 14:18 / 1 Samuel 14:18
- LXX 1 Samuel 15:2 / 1 Samuel 15:2
- LXX 1 Samuel 17:4 / 1 Samuel 17:4
- LXX 1 Samuel 17:35 / 1 Samuel 17:35
- LXX 1 Samuel 17:36 / 1 Samuel 17:36
- LXX 1 Samuel 17:38 / 1 Samuel 17:38
- LXX 1 Samuel 17:41 / 1 Samuel 17:41
- LXX 1 Samuel 17:42 / 1 Samuel 17:43
- LXX 1 Samuel 17:50 / 1 Samuel 17:52
- LXX 1 Samuel 25:37 / 1 Samuel 25:37
- LXX 1 Samuel 28:16 / 1 Samuel 28:16
- LXX 2 Samuel
- LXX 2 Samuel 6:6 / 2 Samuel 6:6
- LXX 2 Samuel 6:14 / 2 Samuel 6:14
- LXX 2 Samuel 6:14 / 1 Samuel 2:27 / 2 Samuel 6:14
- LXX 2 Samuel 7:15 / 2 Samuel 7:15
- LXX 2 Samuel 7:23 / 2 Samuel 7:23
- LXX 2 Samuel 20:15 / 2 Samuel 20:15
- LXX 2 Samuel 21:19 / 2 Samuel 21:19
- LXX 2 Samuel 23:3 / 2 Samuel 23:3
- LXX 2 Samuel 24:17 / 2 Samuel 24:16
- LXX 1 Kings
- LXX 1 Kings 18:19 / 1 Kings 18:19
- LXX 1 Chronicles
- LXX 1 Chronicles 10:13 / 1 Chronicles 10:13
- LXX Esther
- LXX Esther 2:20 / Esther 2:20
- LXX Esther 8:6 / Esther 8:6
- LXX Job
- LXX Job 1:5 / Job 1:5
- LXX Job 2:9 / Job 2:9
- LXX Job 2:17 / Job 2:11
- LXX Job 4:21 / Job 4:21
- LXX Job 9:8 / Job 9:8
- LXX Job 14:10 / Job 14:10
- LXX Job 38:3 / Job 38:3
- LXX Job 38:38 / Job 38:38
- LXX Job 40:7 / Job 40:7
- LXX Job 42:2 / Job 42:2
- LXX Job 42:9 / Job 42:9
- LXX Job 42:17 / Job 42:17
- LXX Job 42:17 / Genesis 10:29
- LXX Psalm
- LXX Psalm 4:4 / Psalm 4:4
- LXX Psalm 9:6 / Psalm 9:6
- LXX Psalm 9:20 / Psalm 9:20
- LXX Psalms
- LXX Psalms 21:1 / Psalm 22:1
- LXX Psalms 21:16 / Psalm 22:16
- LXX Psalm
- LXX Psalm 23:7 / Psalm 24:7
- LXX Psalm 39:7 / Psalm 40:7 / Hebrews 10:5
- LXX Psalm 55:8 / Psalm 56:8
- LXX Psalms
- LXX Psalms 68:23 / Psalm 69:23
- LXX Psalm
- LXX Psalm 77:2 / Psalm 78:2
- LXX Psalm 81:1 / Psalm 82:1
- LXX Psalm 90:13 / Psalm 91:13
- LXX Psalm 96:7 / Psalm 97:7
- LXX Psalm 109:3 / Psalm 110:3
- LXX Psalm 118:85 / Psalm 119:85
- LXX Psalms
- LXX Psalms 145:8 / Psalm 146:8
- LXX Proverbs
- LXX Proverbs 3:15 / Proverbs 3:15
- LXX Proverbs 6:3 / Proverbs 6:3
- LXX Proverbs 30:16 / Proverbs 30:16
- LXX Isaiah
- LXX Isaiah 1:9 / Isaiah 1:9
- LXX Isaiah 3:10 / Isaiah 3:10
- LXX Isaiah 5:13 / Isaiah 5:13
- LXX Isaiah 6:1 / Isaiah 6:1
- LXX Isaiah 6:1 / Isaiah 6:1 / Jonathan Isaiah 6:1
- LXX Isaiah 6:10 / Isaiah 6:10
- LXX Isaiah 7:15 / Isaiah 7:15
- LXX Isaiah 8:8 / Isaiah 8:8
- LXX Isaiah 8:16 / Isaiah 8:16
- LXX Isaiah 9:2 / Isaiah 9:2
- LXX Isaiah 9:6 / Isaiah 9:6
- LXX Isaiah 11:3 / Isaiah 11:3
- LXX Isaiah 13:21 / Isaiah 13:21
- LXX Isaiah 16:3 / Isaiah 16:3
- LXX Isaiah 19:18 / Isaiah 19:18
- LXX Isaiah 19:25 / Isaiah 19:25
- LXX Isaiah 21:7 / Isaiah 21:7
- LXX Isaiah 24:23 / Isaiah 24:23
- LXX Isaiah 26:8 / Isaiah 26:8
- LXX Isaiah 26:9 / Isaiah 26:9
- LXX Isaiah 26:10 / Isaiah 26:10
- LXX Isaiah 26:16 / Isaiah 26:16
- LXX Isaiah 40:5 / Isaiah 40:5
- LXX Isaiah 40:27 / Isaiah 40:27
- LXX Isaiah 42:1 / Isaiah 42:1
- LXX Isaiah 42:13 / Isaiah 42:13
- LXX Isaiah 44:14 / Isaiah 44:14
- LXX Isaiah 44:21 / Isaiah 44:21
- LXX Isaiah 49:8 / Isaiah 49:8
- LXX Isaiah 51:3 / Isaiah 51:3
- LXX Isaiah 51:9 / Isaiah 51:9
- LXX Isaiah 53:4 / Isaiah 53:4
- LXX Isaiah 53:10 / Isaiah 53:10
- LXX Isaiah 54:6 / Isaiah 54:6
- LXX Isaiah 56:10 / Isaiah 56:10
- LXX Isaiah 57:17 / Isaiah 57:17
- LXX Isaiah 60:14 / Isaiah 60:14
- LXX Isaiah 60:16 / Isaiah 60:16
- LXX Isaiah 61:1 / Isaiah 61:1
- LXX Isaiah 61:6 / Isaiah 61:6
- LXX Isaiah 61:7 / Isaiah 61:7
- LXX Isaiah 63:5 / Isaiah 63:5
- LXX Isaiah 63:14 / Isaiah 63:14
- LXX Isaiah 63:16 / Isaiah 63:16
- LXX Isaiah 65:1 / Isaiah 65:1
- LXX Isaiah 65:3 / Isaiah 65:3
- LXX Isaiah 65:11 / Isaiah 65:11
- LXX Isaiah 66:5 / Isaiah 66:5
- LXX Jeremiah
- LXX Jeremiah 2:15 / Jeremiah 2:16
- LXX Jeremiah 28:16 / Jeremiah 10:13
- LXX Lamentations
- LXX Lamentations 4:3 / Lamentations 4:3
- LXX Ezekiel
- LXX Ezekiel 1:7 / Ezekiel 1:7
- LXX Ezekiel 21:8 / Ezekiel 21:3
- LXX Ezekiel 28:13 / Ezekiel 28:13
- LXX Ezekiel 43:2 / Ezekiel 43:2
- LXX Ezekiel 43:7 / Ezekiel 43:7
- LXX Ezekiel 44:30 / Ezekiel 44:30
- LXX Hosea
- LXX Hosea 6:2 / Hosea 6:2
- LXX Hosea 10:12 / Hosea 10:12
- LXX Hosea 11:1 / Hosea 11:1
- LXX Hosea 13:4 / Hosea 13:4
- LXX Hosea 13:14 / Isaiah 25:8 / 1 Corinthians 15:55
- LXX Amos
- LXX Amos 3:5 / Amos 3:5
- LXX Amos 4:4 / Amos 4:4
- LXX Amos 5:8 / Amos 5:8
- LXX Amos 5:15 / Amos 5:15
- LXX Amos 7:5 / Amos 7:5
- LXX Amos 9:13 / Amos 9:12
- LXX Jonah
- LXX Jonah 2:1(2) / Jonah 2:1
- LXX Jonah 3:4 / Jonah 3:4
- LXX Jonah 3:8 / Jonah 3:8
- LXX Jonah 3:10 / Jonah 3:10
- LXX Nahum
- LXX Nahum 1:14 / Nahum 1:14
- LXX Habakkuk
- LXX Habakkuk 2:4 / Habakkuk 2:4
- LXX Habakkuk 3:2 / Habakkuk 3:2
- LXX Haggai
- LXX Haggai 2:9 / Haggai 2:9
- LXX Zechariah
- LXX Zechariah 2:13 / Zechariah 2:8
- LXX Zechariah 5:1 / Zechariah 5:1
The Septuagint and the Hebrew Bible Tradition
The theories of the prehistory of the biblical texts were based largely on the scholar’s intuition from close reading, but there was no tangible proof in the form of textual artifacts in Hebrew. Only one manuscript tradition of the Hebrew scriptures existed, and it matched the Hebrew Bible of modem editions and therefore the modern English translations. In the absence of Hebrew sources to verify their hypotheses, scholars pointed to the ancient versions of the Hebrew Bible. The Greek translation known as the Septuagint was central to the discussion, since numerous passages stood at odds with the Hebrew. Commentators suggested that the Septuagint illuminates a lost part of the history of the formation of the Old Testament, that the Greek translation actually shows us different stages of the Hebrew text long before it reached its final form.
And then suddenly everything changed ... Perhaps the Septuagint translators were not responsible for the differences in the biblical text; maybe they were translating other Hebrew texts after all. For many who had insisted on the authority of the Hebrew Bible, the most uncomfortable realization was that these Hebrew manuscripts appeared to reflect earlier stages of the biblical books. The argument against scholarly reconstructions and hypotheses suddenly lost its breath. Here was real, hold-in-your-hands proof that some biblical books once existed in a different form. Even so, the Septuagint remains foreign to most, including biblical scholars, indeed even Old Testament scholars.