Chronological timeline of texts tagged with Masoretic Additions
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The Masoretic Text, the standard Hebrew Bible, sometimes contains material that is absent from older Hebrew copies, including the source behind the Greek Septuagint translation, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Samaritan Pentateuch. These pluses can come from later scribes harmonizing with other passages, conflating parallel traditions, or filling perceived gaps in the narrative. In such cases the Septuagint is not missing material, but preserving an older Hebrew reading before the standard Hebrew text was expanded.
Note: Dates shown in this timeline are approximate and based on scholarly estimates.
Back to TagNumbers 16:24 / LXX Numbers 16:24
750–400 BCE
Numbers 16:24
Hebrew Bible
23 So the Lord spoke to Moses: 24 “Tell the community: ‘Get away from around the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.’” 25 Then Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel went after him.
300–201 BCE
LXX Numbers 16:24
Septuagint
23 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 24 Speak to the congregation, saying, Depart from the company of Korah all around. 25 And Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and all the elders of Israel went with him.
600–501 BCE
Joshua 2:15
Hebrew Bible
14 The men said to her, “If you die, may we die too! If you do not report what we’ve been up to, then we will show unswerving allegiance to you when the Lord hands the land over to us.” 15 Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window. (Her house was built as part of the city wall; she lived in the wall.) 16 She told them, “Head to the hill country, so the ones chasing you don’t find you. Hide from them there for three days, long enough for those chasing you to return. Then you can be on your way.”
200–101 BCE
LXX Joshua 2:15
Septuagint
13 and save alive the house of my father, my mother, and my brothers, and all my house, and all that they have, and you shall rescue my soul from death. 14 And the men said to her, Our life for yours even to death: and she said, When the Lord shall have delivered the city to you, you shall deal mercifully and truly with me. 15 And she let them down by the window; 16 and she said to them, Depart into the hill-country, for fear that the pursuers might meet you, and you shall be hidden there three days until your pursuers return from after you, and afterwards you shall depart on your way.
600–501 BCE
Joshua 4:10
Hebrew Bible
9 Joshua also set up 12 stones in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day. 10 Now the priests carrying the ark of the covenant were standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything the Lord had commanded Joshua to tell the people was accomplished, in accordance with all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people went across quickly, 11 and when all the people had finished crossing, the ark of the Lord and the priests crossed as the people looked on.
200–101 BCE
LXX Joshua 4:10
Septuagint
9 And Joshua also set twelve other stones in Jordan itself, in the place that was under the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and there they are to this day. 10 And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant stood in Jordan, until Joshua had finished all that the Lord commanded him to report to the people; and the people hastened and passed over. 11 And it happened when all the people had passed over, that the ark of the covenant of the Lord passed over, and the stones before them.
600–501 BCE
Joshua 5:11
Hebrew Bible
9 The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have taken away the disgrace of Egypt from you.” So that place is called Gilgal even to this day. 10 So the Israelites camped in Gilgal and celebrated the Passover in the evening of the fourteenth day of the month in the rift valley plains of Jericho. 11 They ate some of the produce of the land the day after the Passover, including unleavened bread and roasted grain. 12 The manna stopped appearing the day they ate some of the produce of the land; the Israelites never ate manna again. They ate from the produce of the land of Canaan that year.
200–101 BCE
LXX Joshua 5:11
Septuagint
9 And the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, On this day I have removed the reproach of Egypt from you: and he called the name of that place Gilgal. 10 And the children of Israel kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, to the westward of Jericho on the opposite side of the Jordan in the plain. 11 And they ate of the grain of the earth unleavened and new on this day. 12 The manna failed, after they had eaten of the grain of the land, and the children of Israel no longer had manna: and they took the fruits of the land of the Phoenicians in that year.
600–501 BCE
Joshua 8:12
Hebrew Bible
10 Bright and early the next morning Joshua gathered the army, and he and the leaders of Israel marched at the head of it to Ai. 11 All the troops that were with him marched up and drew near the city. They camped north of Ai on the other side of the valley. 12 He took 5,000 men and set an ambush west of the city between Bethel and Ai. 13 The army was in position—the main army north of the city and the rear guard west of the city. That night Joshua went into the middle of the valley. 14 When the king of Ai and all his people saw Israel, they rushed to get up early. Then the king and the men of the city went out to meet Israel in battle, at the meeting place near the rift valley. But he did not realize an ambush was waiting for him behind the city.
200–101 BCE
LXX Joshua 8:12
Septuagint
10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people; and he went up, he and the elders before the people to Ai. 11 And all the men of war went up with him, and they went forward and came over against the city eastward. 12 And the ambuscade was on the west side of the city. 13 14 And it happened when the king of Ai saw it, he hastened and went out to meet them direct to the battle, he and all the people that were with him: and he did not know that there was an ambuscade formed against him behind the city. 15 And Joshua and Israel saw, and retreated from before them.
600–501 BCE
1 Samuel 17:41
Hebrew Bible
40 He took his staff in his hand, picked out five smooth stones from the stream, placed them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag, took his sling in hand, and approached the Philistine. 41 The Philistine, with his shield bearer walking in front of him, kept coming closer to David. 42 When the Philistine looked carefully at David, he despised him, for he was only a ruddy and handsome boy.
100–1 BCE
LXX 1 Samuel 17:41
Septuagint
40 And he took his staff in his hand, and he chose for himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's scrip which he had for his store, and his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine. 41 42 And Goliath saw David, and despised him; for he was a lad, and ruddy, with a fair face. 43 And the Philistine said to David, Am I as a dog, that you come against me with a staff and stones? and David said, No, but worse than a dog. And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.