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1 Samuel 9 shows Saul receiving a special portion of meat set aside for him at a ceremonial meal. The Greek translation has different details about how it was served, likely caused by confusion between similar Hebrew letters read during the translation.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
1 Samuel 9:24
Hebrew Bible
22 Then Samuel brought Saul and his servant into the room and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited. There were about thirty people present. 23 Samuel said to the cook, “Give me the portion of meat that I gave to you—the one I asked you to keep with you.” 24 So the cook picked up the leg and brought it and set it in front of Saul. Samuel said, “What was kept is now set before you! Eat, for it has been kept for you for this meeting time, from the time I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul ate with Samuel that day. 25 When they came down from the high place to the town, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof. 26 They got up at dawn and Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get up, so I can send you on your way.” So Saul got up and the two of them—he and Samuel—went outside.
Date: 600–501 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
LXX 1 Samuel 9:24
Septuagint
22 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them to the inn, and set them there a place among the chief of those that were called, about seventy men. 23 And Samuel said to the cook, Give me the portion which I gave you, which I told you to set by you. 24 Now the cook had lifted up the thigh, and he set it before Saul; and Samuel said to Saul, Look at that which is left: set it before you, and eat; for it is set for you as a testimony in preference to the others; take of it: and Saul ate with Samuel on that day. 25 And he went down from Bamah into the city; and they prepared a lodging for Saul on the roof. 26 And he lay down. And it happened when the morning dawned, that Samuel called Saul on the roof, saying, Rise up, and I will dismiss you. And Saul arose, and he and Samuel went out.
Date: 100–1 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... it is much more likely that the scribe was influenced by the quoted expression, while interchanging the graphically similar letters Λ/Ν. For a similar instance, see the analysis of 1 Samuel 9:24 ... The use of the LXX in the text-critical study of the Hebrew Bible requires constant reference to the presumably original readings of the LXX. As a rule, such readings are selected from the extant variants, but sometimes they are reconstructed by way of emendation ... Three examples follow: 1 Samuel 9:24; Jeremiah 38(45):22; Jeremiah 49:10 (29:11) ..."
Emanuel Tov, The Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research, 3rd ed. (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015), 54, 60.
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