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Hosea 11 refers to Israel as God’s “son” called out of Egypt, using singular language. The Greek Septuagint translation changes this to “his children,” shifting the focus from one to many, likely reflecting a later nationalistic tradition.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Hosea 11:1
Hebrew Bible
1 “When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt. 2 But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images. 3 Yet it was I who led Ephraim; I took them by the arm, but they did not acknowledge that I had healed them.
Date: 600–501 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
LXX Hosea 11:1
Septuagint
1 For Israel is a child, and I loved him, and out of Egypt I have called his children. 2 As I called them, so they departed from my presence: they sacrificed to Baals, and burnt incense to carved images. 3 Yet I bound the feet of Ephraim, I took him on my arm; but they did not know that I healed them.
Date: 100–1 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Unlike the Masoretic text and Matthew 2:15, the LXX has “out of Egypt I called his children” instead of “out of Egypt I called my son” ..."
Christopher Winchester, “Thematic Association in the Gospel of Matthew: Situating Exegesis in the Gospel of Matthew in Its Second Temple Context” (PhD diss., University of Edinburgh, 2017), 188.
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