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Genesis instructs humanity to rule over the fish, birds, and land animals. The Greek Septuagint expands this by adding “and all the cattle and all the earth,” drawing on the Septuagint translation of Psalm 8 that describes how humans should rule.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Genesis 1:28
Hebrew Bible
27 God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.” 29 Then God said, “I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
Date: 750–400 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
LXX Genesis 1:28
Septuagint
27 And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them. 28 And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth. 29 And God said, Look, I have given to you every seed-bearing herb sowing seed which is upon all the earth, and every tree which has in itself the fruit of seed that is sown, to you it shall be for food.
Date: 300–201 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... The combination of Genesis 1:26 and Psalm 8 is evident in the Greek textual tradition as well ... This translation difference reflects the influence of ὑποτάσσω from Psalm 8:6. This is notable due to the different Hebrew words in Genesis 1:26 and Psalm 8:6 ..."
Tyler Allen Stewart, “‘The Present Evil Age’: The Origin and Persistence of Evil in Galatians” (diss., Marquette University, 2019), 308.
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