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LXX Deuteronomy

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Chapter 16

1 Observe the month of new grain, and you shall sacrifice the passover to the Lord your God; because in the month of new grain you came out of Egypt by night. 2 And you shall sacrifice the passover to the Lord your God, sheep and oxen in the place which the Lord your God shall choose to have his name called upon it. 3 You shall not eat leaven with it; seven days you will eat unleavened bread with it, bread of affliction, because you came forth out of Egypt in haste; that you may remember the day of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. 4 Leaven shall not be seen with you in all your borders for seven days, and there shall not be left of the flesh which you shall sacrifice in the evening on the first day until the morning. 5 you shall not have power to sacrifice the passover in any of your cities, which the Lord your God gives you. 6 But in the place which the Lord your God shall choose, to have his name called there, you shall sacrifice the passover in the evening at the setting of the sun, at the time when you came out of Egypt. 7 And you shall boil and roast and eat it in the place, which the Lord your God shall choose;⁠ and you shall return in the morning, and go to your house. 8 Six days you will eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day is a holiday, a feast to the Lord your God: you shall not do in it any work, save what must be done by any one. 9 Seven full weeks you will number to yourself; when you have begun to put the sickle to the grain, you shall begin to number seven weeks. 10 And you shall keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, accordingly as your hand has power in as many things as he shall give you, according as the Lord your God has blessed you. 11 And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son, and your daughter, your man-servant and your maidservant, and the Levite that is in your cities, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which dwells among you, in whatever place the Lord your God shall choose, that his name should be called there. 12 And you shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and you shall observe and do these commands. 13 You shall keep for yourself the feast of tabernacles seven days, when you gather in your produce from your threshing-floor and your wine-press. 14 And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, your man-servant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow that is in your cities. 15 Seven days you will keep a feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God shall choose for himself; and if the Lord your God shall bless you in all your fruits, and in every work of your hands, then you shall rejoice. 16 Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord shall choose in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: you shall not appear before the Lord your God empty. 17 Each one according to his ability, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you. 18 You shall make for yourself judges and officers in all your cities, which the Lord your God gives you in your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment: 19 they shall not wrest judgment, nor favor persons, nor receive a gift; for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. 20 You shall justly pursue justice, that you may live, and go in and inherit the land which the Lord your God gives you. 21 You shall not plant for yourself a grove; you shall not plant for yourself any tree near the altar of the Lord your God, which you shall make for yourself. 22 You shall not set up for yourself a pillar, which the Lord your God hates.

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Compare LXX Deuteronomy 16:7 and LXX 2 Chronicles 35:13

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Summary

The Greek Septuagint translation of 2 Chronicles 35 mirrors the Septuagint translation of Deuteronomy 16 by stating that the Passover offering was both boiled and roasted, attempting to harmonize two conflicting commands found in Exodus and Deuteronomy.

Passages

LXX Deuteronomy 16:7

Septuagint
5 you shall not have power to sacrifice the passover in any of your cities, which the Lord your God gives you. 6 But in the place which the Lord your God shall choose, to have his name called there, you shall sacrifice the passover in the evening at the setting of the sun, at the time when you came out of Egypt. 7 And you shall boil and roast and eat it in the place, which the Lord your God shall choose; and you shall return in the morning, and go to your house. 8 Six days you will eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day is a holiday, a feast to the Lord your God: you shall not do in it any work, save what must be done by any one. 9 Seven full weeks you will number to yourself; when you have begun to put the sickle to the grain, you shall begin to number seven weeks.
300–201 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in LXX Deuteronomy

LXX 2 Chronicles 35:13

Septuagint
11 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hand, and the Levites flayed the victims. 12 And they prepared the whole burnt offering to give to them, according to the division by the houses of families, even to the sons of the people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses. And thus they did till the morning. 13 And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance; and boiled the holy pieces in copper vessels and cauldrons, and the feast went on well, and they quickly served all the children of the people. 14 And after they had prepared for themselves and for the priests, for the priests were engaged in offering the whole burnt offerings and the fat until night, then the Levites prepared for themselves, and for their brothers the sons of Aaron.
100–1 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in LXX 2 Chronicles

References

"... in Chronicles, the tôrah (“law”) is a term used to give legitimacy to post-exilic religious practices such as the maintenance and organization of the temple, which are omitted in the Pentateuch ... For instance, Chronicles lowers the age at which a Levite begins to serve in the temple from thirty to twenty (1 Chronicles 23:24-27; contrast this with 1 Chronicles 23:3 and Numbers 4:23) and requires ten lampstands (2 Chronicles 4:7, 20) amongst the temple furnishings instead of the one six-branched lampstand sufficient for the tabernacle (Exodus 25:32; 37:17-23). Moreover, Chronicles harmonizes the conflicting Passover regulations about the preparation of the Passover animal. In Exodus 12:9, it is to be roasted and not eaten raw or boiled, while in Deuteronomy 16:7, it is to be boiled. 2 Chronicles 35:13 combines the two: “And they boiled the Passover lamb in the fire according to the decision (mišpaṭ)”; mišpaṭ here must mean “according to the interpretive tradition” ..."
Tawny Holm, “Moses in the Prophets and the Writings of the Hebrew Bible,” in Illuminating Moses: A History of Reception from Exodus to the Renaissance, ed. Jane Beal, Commentaria 4 (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 37–57.

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