Amos 4:4
Hebrew Bible
3 Each of you will go straight through the gaps in the walls; you will be thrown out toward Harmon.” The Lord is speaking. 4 “Go to Bethel and rebel! At Gilgal rebel some more! Bring your sacrifices in the morning, your tithes on the third day! 5 Burn a thank offering of bread made with yeast! Make a public display of your voluntary offerings! For you love to do this, you Israelites.” The Sovereign Lord is speaking.
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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LXX Amos 4:4
Septuagint
3 And you will be carried out naked before one another, and you will be thrown away into Mount Rimmon,” says the Lord. 4 “You entered into Bethel and were impious, and in Gilgal you increased acting impiously, and you carried your sacrifices for the morning, your tithes for three days. 5 And they read the law outside, and they invoked confessions. You announced, because the sons of Israel loved these things,” says the Lord God.
Date: 1st Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... The concept of God’s goodness, a central issue of Plato’s philosophy, became also important for Jewish theology. Due to this doctrine, transmitters and translators sometimes modified the text. In order to avoid any suspicion of despotism, the Septuagint translator of Amos transmuted the ironic imperatives in Amos 4:4 to indicatives, and he rendered ילוא (“perhaps”) in Amos 5:15 by ὅπως: God’s reaction on human repentance is not to be categorized by “perhaps”! In LXX Isaiah 6:9–10, the theory of divine hardening is avoided. The translator of Ezekiel altered Ezekiel 21:3-4 [LXX 8-9] ... According to the Masoretic text, God will destroy the righteous and the wicked whereas the Septuagint alters: God will destroy the unrighteous and the wicked ..."
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