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The Greek Septuagint translation of 2 Chronicles 35 mirrors the Septuagint translation of Deuteronomy 16 by stating that the Passover offering was both boiled and roasted, attempting to harmonize two conflicting commands found in Exodus and Deuteronomy.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
LXX Deuteronomy 16:7
Septuagint
5 you shall not have power to sacrifice the passover in any of your cities, which the Lord your God gives you. 6 But in the place which the Lord your God shall choose, to have his name called there, you shall sacrifice the passover in the evening at the setting of the sun, at the time when you came out of Egypt. 7 And you shall boil and roast and eat it in the place, which the Lord your God shall choose; and you shall return in the morning, and go to your house. 8 Six days you will eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day is a holiday, a feast to the Lord your God: you shall not do in it any work, save what must be done by any one. 9 Seven full weeks you will number to yourself; when you have begun to put the sickle to the grain, you shall begin to number seven weeks.
Date: 300–201 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
LXX 2 Chronicles 35:13
Septuagint
11 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hand, and the Levites flayed the victims. 12 And they prepared the whole burnt offering to give to them, according to the division by the houses of families, even to the sons of the people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses. And thus they did till the morning. 13 And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance; and boiled the holy pieces in copper vessels and cauldrons, and the feast went on well, and they quickly served all the children of the people. 14 And after they had prepared for themselves and for the priests, for the priests were engaged in offering the whole burnt offerings and the fat until night, then the Levites prepared for themselves, and for their brothers the sons of Aaron.
Date: 100–1 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... in Chronicles, the tôrah (“law”) is a term used to give legitimacy to post-exilic religious practices such as the maintenance and organization of the temple, which are omitted in the Pentateuch ... For instance, Chronicles lowers the age at which a Levite begins to serve in the temple from thirty to twenty (1 Chronicles 23:24-27; contrast this with 1 Chronicles 23:3 and Numbers 4:23) and requires ten lampstands (2 Chronicles 4:7, 20) amongst the temple furnishings instead of the one six-branched lampstand sufficient for the tabernacle (Exodus 25:32; 37:17-23). Moreover, Chronicles harmonizes the conflicting Passover regulations about the preparation of the Passover animal. In Exodus 12:9, it is to be roasted and not eaten raw or boiled, while in Deuteronomy 16:7, it is to be boiled. 2 Chronicles 35:13 combines the two: “And they boiled the Passover lamb in the fire according to the decision (mišpaṭ)”; mišpaṭ here must mean “according to the interpretive tradition” ..."
Tawny Holm, “Moses in the Prophets and the Writings of the Hebrew Bible,” in Illuminating Moses: A History of Reception from Exodus to the Renaissance, ed. Jane Beal, Commentaria 4 (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 37–57.
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