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The Greek Septuagint and the Dead Sea Scrolls version of Joshua 6 are shorter and remove Joshua’s repetition of God’s command. The Greek version likely follows an older Hebrew version different than the Masoretic tradition.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Joshua 6:6
Hebrew Bible
5 When you hear the signal from the rams’ horns, have the whole army give a loud battle cry. Then the city wall will collapse, and the warriors should charge straight ahead.” 6 So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and instructed them, “Pick up the ark of the covenant, and seven priests must carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark of the Lord.” 7 And he told the army, “Move ahead and march around the city, with armed troops going ahead of the ark of the Lord.”
Date: 600–501 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
LXX Joshua 6:6
Septuagint
5 And it shall be that when you shall sound with the trumpet, all the people shall shout together. And when they have shouted, the walls of the city shall fall of themselves; and all the people shall enter, each one rushing direct into the city. 6 And Joshua the son of Nun went in to the priests, 7 and spoke to them, saying, Charge the people to go round, and encompass the city; and let the men of war pass on armed before the Lord.
Date: 200–101 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Parallels between 4QJosha and the Septuagint in a common short text ... elsewhere (Joshua 5:2–7 and 6:6–7) this scroll does not reflect the short text of the Septuagint. However, in chapter 5 this argument is not conclusive, as the translator may have shortened his Vorlage because of contextual difficulties ... A substantial amount of text is lacking in the scroll, which therefore must have been close to the short text of the LXX. The resemblance of 4QJosha and the LXX in their short text is supported by the common readings in this small fragment ..."
Emanuel Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Qumran, Septuagint: Collected Essays, VTSup 167 (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 3:134.
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