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In Jeremiah 27, God warns the priests and people not to believe false prophets. The Greek Septuagint translation reverses the order of some of the language and adds an additional phrase that was meant to help clarify the motives of the prophets.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Jeremiah 27:15
Hebrew Bible
15 For I, the Lord, affirm that I did not send them. They are prophesying lies to you in my name. If you listen to them, I will drive you and the prophets who are prophesying lies out of the land and you will all die in exile.’” 16 I also told the priests and all the people, “The Lord says, ‘Do not listen to what your prophets are saying. They are prophesying to you that the valuable articles taken from the Lord’s temple will be brought back from Babylon very soon. But they are prophesying a lie to you. 17 Do not listen to them. Be subject to the king of Babylon. Then you will continue to live. Why should this city be made a pile of rubble?’”
Date: 500–401 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
LXX Jeremiah 34:15
Septuagint
15 for I did not send them, says the Lord; and they prophesy in my name unjustly, so as to destroy you, and you should perish, and your prophets, who unrighteously prophesy lies to you. 16 I spoke to you, and to all this people, and to the priests, saying, Thus said the Lord; Do not listen to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Look, the vessels of the Lord's house shall return from Babylon: for they prophesy to you unrighteous words. I did not send them.
Date: 100–1 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... The focus now is on the Temple treasures, which are of special concern to the priests. But priests and people are also told to serve the king of Babylon and live. The LXX reverses "priests" and "people" and adds an initial "to you": "To you and to all this people, and to all the priests I spoke." The added pronoun may belong to the LXX plus at the end of verse 15, which does not appear to be original. The LXX reverses "priests" and "people" also in Jeremiah 28:5 ..."
Jack R. Lundbom, Jeremiah 21-36: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, AB 21B (New York: Doubleday, 2004), 321.
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