LXX Deuteronomy 32:35

Septuagint

33 their wine is the wrath of dragons, and the wrath of asps beyond cure. 34 Look, have not these things been gathered with me and sealed up in my treasuries? 35 In a day of vengeance, I will repay, in a time when their foot slips, because near is the day of their destruction and things prepared for you are at hand. 36 For the Lord will judge his people and be comforted over his slaves. For he saw them paralyzed, both failed under attack and enfeebled. 37 And the Lord said: Where are their gods, they in whom they trusted,

Samaritan Deuteronomy 32:35

Samaritan Penteteuch
Samaritan

33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of strange asps. 34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? 35 For the day of vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. 37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted

 Notes and References

"... The key difference between the Masoretic Text and the Samaritan Pentateuch comes at the start of verse 35 where the Masoretic reads: יִל ‘mine,’ but the Samaritan text has two additional consonants to read: םויל ‘for the day.’ The Masoretic text reading is supported by the Vulgate, the Targums and the Peshitta (Longacre 2009, 3-6). In addition, the Masoretic reading is further supported by two New Testament citations: Romans 12:19 and Hebrews 10:30.91 However, the LXX reads: ἐν ἡµέρᾳ ἐκδικήσεως ἀνταποδώσω ‘on the day of judgement I will repay’, which supports the Samaritan Pentateuch reading םויל ‘for the day’. Tigay (1996, 405n144) suggests the Masoretic reading יִל, was an abbreviation of םויל. Tov (2001, 256-7) agrees, and gives other examples of possible abbreviations in the Masoretic text, or where the LXX translators read the Masoretic as an abbreviation ..."

Reid, Philip Mark A Preliminary Investigation into the Samaritan Pentateuch as an Intralingual Translation (pp. 94-95) University of the Free State South Africa, 2021

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