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The story of Gedaliah’s death in Jeremiah describes mourners in grief. The Greek Septuagint translation adds language not found in the Hebrew version to describe more intense grief.
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Jeremiah 41:5
Hebrew Bible
4 On the day after Gedaliah had been murdered, before anyone even knew about it, 5 80 men arrived from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria. They had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut themselves to show they were mourning. They were carrying grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem. 6 Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them. He was pretending to cry as he walked along. When he met them, he said to them, “Come with me to meet Gedaliah son of Ahikam.”
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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LXX Jeremiah 48:4
Septuagint
4 And this happened on the second day after his striking Gedaliah and no person knew it: 5 And men arrived from Shechem and from Salem and from Samaria, eighty men with beards shaven and cloaks torn, and striking their breasts, and manna and frankincense in their hands to bring into the house of the Lord. 6 And Ishmael came out to meet them. They kept going and weeping, and he said to them, “Enter to Gedaliah.”
Date: 1st Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... LXX Jeremiah 48 (Masoretic text chapter 41) contains a plus, “beating their breasts” ..."
Modine, Mitchel
The Dialogues of Jeremiah: Toward a Phenomenology of Exile
(p. 200) Gorgias Press, 2014
* The use of references are not endorsements of their contents. Please read the entirety of the provided reference(s) to understand the author's full intentions regarding the use of these texts.
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