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Micah says “it is sound wisdom to fear your name.” The Greek Septuagint changes this to “he will save those who fear his name,” turning a proverb about wisdom into a promise of divine rescue for the faithful.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Micah 6:9
Hebrew Bible
8 He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord really wants from you: He wants you to carry out justice, to love faithfulness, and to live obediently before your God. 9 Listen! The Lord is calling to the city! It is wise to respect your authority, O Lord. Listen, O nation, and those assembled in the city! 10 “I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.
LXX Micah 6:9
Septuagint
8 Has it not been told you, man, what is good? or what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, and love mercy, and be ready to walk with the Lord your God? 9 The Lord's voice shall be proclaimed in the city, and he shall save those that fear his name: hear, tribe; and who shall order the city? 10 Is there not fire, and the house of the wicked heaping up wicked treasures, and that with the pride of unrighteousness?
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Notes and References
"... There are three shifts in a single clause (וְתוּשִׁיָּה יִרְאָה שְׁמֶךָ “and it is sound wisdom to acknowledge your name” > καὶ σώσει φοβουμένους τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ “and he will save those who fear his name”). The first two shifts may have resulted from orthographic/phonological errors. Yet, it is likely that the translator took the opportunity to infuse his salvation theology into the context of judgment (Micah 6:9c–16) ..."
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