Genesis 2:2

Hebrew Bible

1 The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them. 2 By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing. 3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation. 4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created—when the Lord God made the earth and heavens.

Samaritan Genesis 2:2

Samaritan Penteteuch
Samaritan

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the sixth day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made heavens and earth

 Notes and References

"... The LXX agrees with the Samaritan Pentateuch (יששה) and S in reading “sixth” for “seventh” of the Masoretic text. This reading probably derived from contextual theological harmonization because it was found difficult to explain how God could finish his work “on the seventh day” without having worked on that day. It is impossible to determine whether the easier reading of the LXX was based on an actual variant יששה or whether the exegetical tendency developed independently in all three sources ..."

Tov, Emanuel The Text-Critical use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research (p. 88) Eisenbrauns, 2015

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