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LXX Amos

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1 The words of Amos which came to him in Accarim out of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. 2 And he said, The Lord has spoken out of Zion, and has uttered his voice out of Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds have mourned, and the top of Carmel is dried up. 3 And the Lord said, For three sins of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they sawed with iron saws⁠ the women with child of the Gileadites. 4 And I will send a fire on the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the foundations of the son of Hadar. 5 And I will break to pieces the bars of Damascus, and will destroy the inhabitants out of the plain of On, and will cut in pieces a tribe out of the men of Haran: and the famous people of Syria shall be led captive, says the Lord. 6 Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they took prisoners the captivity of Solomon, to shut them up into Idumea. 7 And I will send forth a fire on the walls of Gaza, and it shall devour its foundations. 8 And I will destroy the inhabitants out of Ashdod, and a tribe shall be cut off from Ashkelon, and I will stretch out my hand upon Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, says the Lord. 9 Thus says the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they shut up the prisoners of Solomon into Idumea, and did not remember the covenant of brothers. 10 And I will send forth a fire on the walls of Tyre, and it shall devour the foundations of it. 11 Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Idumea, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the womb upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury for strife. 12 And I will send forth a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the foundations of her walls. 13 Thus says the Lord; For three sins of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they ripped up the women with child of the Gileadites, that they might widen their borders. 14 And I will kindle a fire on the walls of Rabbath, and it shall devour her foundations with shouting in the day of war, and she shall be shaken in the day of her destruction: 15 and her kings shall go into captivity, their priests and their rulers together, says the Lord.

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The Greek Septuagint translation of Amos adds that pregnant women were killed, a detail missing in the Hebrew. This may reflect an older Hebrew source the translator used, showing the Hebrew text was not fixed when the Greek translation was made.

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Amos 1:3

Hebrew Bible
2 Amos said: “The Lord comes roaring out of Zion; from Jerusalem he comes bellowing! The shepherds’ pastures wilt; the summit of Carmel withers.” 3 This is what the Lord says: “Because Damascus has committed three crimes—make that four!—I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They ripped through Gilead like threshing sledges with iron teeth. 4 So I will set Hazael’s house on fire; fire will consume Ben Hadad’s fortresses.
600–501 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in Amos

LXX Amos 1:3

Septuagint
2 And he said, The Lord has spoken out of Zion, and has uttered his voice out of Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds have mourned, and the top of Carmel is dried up. 3 And the Lord said, For three sins of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they sawed with iron saws the women with child of the Gileadites. 4 And I will send a fire on the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the foundations of the son of Hadar.
100–1 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in LXX Amos

References

"... The simplest explanation for the plus in LXX Amos 1:3 appears to be that הרות (pregnant women) was already present in the translator’s Vorlage and the translator simply rendered הרות (pregnant women) by the common Greek expression τὰς ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσας, used for “pregnant women” ..."
Myrto Theocharous, Lexical Dependence and Intertextual Allusion in the Septuagint of the Twelve Prophets: Studies in Hosea, Amos and Micah (London: T&T Clark, 2012), 114–115.

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