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Joshua 5 says specifically when the Israelites ate after Passover, a detail absent in the Greek Septuagint. The Greek text likely preserves an earlier form, while the Masoretic text added the detail to harmonize with priestly festival traditions.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
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.
Date: 600–501 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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.
Date: 200–101 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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"... Whereas previous scholars had treated the variants between LXX and the Masoretic text in a rather atomistic way, Holmes pointed to the inner logic of the shorter LXX version and the coherence of the pluses in the Masoretic. The fact, for instance, that in Joshua 5.11-12 both the phrase ‘on the day after Passover’ and the phrase ‘on the day’ are not represented in Greek cannot be attributed to scribal error. Rather they must reflect a later redaction of the shorter Hebrew version underlying LXX that sought to adjust the Joshua narrative to the priestly regulations in Leviticus 23.4-8, 9-14 ..."
Michaël N. van der Meer, “Joshua,” in The T&T Clark Companion to the Septuagint, ed. James K. Aitken, Bloomsbury Companions (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015), 86–101.
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