"… In the Masoretic Text, the phrase ‘it is in their power’ explains that whenever the Israelites had the ability to sin, they did. In the Septuagint, however, the phrase ‘they did not lift their hands to God’ seems to connote prayer and it reflects an intentional theological shift. He changed the sense of this verse in order to attribute the cause of their misdeeds to their failure to pray to God (i.e., not aligning themselves with God in order to do what is right in his eyes). Though it is possible that the Septuagint translator was reading a different Hebrew Vorlage, other translations (α′, σ′, θ′ and T) reflect the Masoretic Text. It is also possible that the translator did not understand the Hebrew idiom and was doing the best he could to render it adequately. Evidence against this explanation involves the other occurrences of this idiom in the Septuagint which are rendered in the same sense. …"