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Nehemiah 13 says the temple storeroom had held the grain offering, the incense, and the vessels. The Greek Septuagint translation interprets this to say manna instead of a grain offering, the bread of the wilderness.
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Nehemiah 13:5
Hebrew Bible
4 But before this time, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been appointed over the storerooms of the temple of our God. 5 He made for him a large storeroom where previously they had been keeping the grain offering, the incense, and the vessels, along with the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil as commanded for the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the offering for the priests. 6 During all this time I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes of Babylon, I had gone back to the king. After some time I had requested leave of the king,
LXX Nehemiah 13:5
Septuagint
4 And before this, Eliashib the priest, while living in the treasury of the house of our God, being next of kin to Tobiah, 5 also prepared for him a large treasure chamber, and there they had previously put the manna and the frankincense and the vessels and the tithe of the grain and of the wine and of the olive oil (a commandment of the Levites and of the singers and of the gatekeepers) and the first fruits of the priests. 6 And in all this I was not in Jerusalem, because in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes, king of Babylon, I went to the king. And after the end of days I asked of the king,
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Notes and References
“... One of the associations with Theodotion has been the use of transcriptions rather than translations of some terms (Torrey, ‘Apparatus’, pages 64–71; compare Janz, ‘Second Book’, page 164 note 36). Leaving aside the more than 500 proper nouns, there are 38 distinct transcriptions of common nouns as proper nouns (for example, Βηθαγγαβαρίμ rather than ‘the house of the warriors’, 13.16), technical terms (for example, Μαναά, 23.5, 9; πάσχα, 6.19, 20, 21) and negative interpretations (for example, Ἀβδησελμά rather than ‘servants of Solomon’, 2.55, 58; see Wooden, ‘Interlinearity’, pages 125–29; Bible d’Alexandrie 11.2, pages 100–106). The transcriptions are not consistent throughout the book and so we find both ναθιναῖοι (2.43; 21.3) and ναθινίμ (2.58, 70, and so on) for נתינים, and ἀβιρά (11.1) and τῆς βιρά for הבירה. The same is true for proper nouns, such as Ἀδδίν (2.15) and Ἀδίν (8.6) and Ἠδῖν (17.20) for עדין. ...”
Wooden, R. Glenn
"2 Esdras" in Aitken, James K. (ed.) 2 Esdras, in The T&T Clark Companion to the Septuagint
(p. 199) Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015
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