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LXX Hosea

Septuagint

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Chapter 6

1 Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us; he will strike, and bind us up. 2 After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him,⁠ 3 and we shall know him; let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find him ready as the morning, and he will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth. 4 What shall I do to you, Ephraim? What shall I do to you, Judah? whereas your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that goes away. 5 Therefore I have mown down your prophets; I have killed them with the word of my mouth: and my judgment shall go forth as the light. 6 For I will have mercy rather than sacrifice,⁠ and the knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings. 7 But they are as a man transgressing a covenant: there he despised me. 8 Gilead is a city working vanity, troubling water. 9 And your strength is that of a robber: the priests have hid the way of the Lord, they have murdered the people of Shechem; for they have done iniquity. 10 In the house of Israel I have seen horrible things, even the fornication of Ephraim there: Israel and Judah are defiled; 11 begin to gather grapes for yourself, when I turn the captivity of my people.

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Compare Hosea 6:2 and LXX Hosea 6:2

Hebrew Bible · Septuagint

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Summary

Hosea 6 describes Israel’s healing and restoration after a short time. The Greek Septuagint translation makes this language more explicit and may reflect a later tradition that understood it as referring to resurrection, not just national renewal.

Passages

Hosea 6:2

Hebrew Bible
1 Come on! Let’s return to the Lord. He himself has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us! He has injured us, but he will bandage our wounds! 2 He will restore us in a very short time; he will heal us in a little while, so that we may live in his presence. 3 So let us search for him! Let us seek to know the Lord! He will come to our rescue as certainly as the appearance of the dawn, as certainly as the winter rain comes, as certainly as the spring rain that waters the land.
600–501 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in Hosea

LXX Hosea 6:2

Septuagint
1 Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us; he will strike, and bind us up. 2 After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, 3 and we shall know him; let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find him ready as the morning, and he will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.
100–1 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in LXX Hosea

References

"... In its original context, there is little reason to doubt that Hosea 6:2 is a reference to the restoration and healing of Israel, and not the resurrection of the dead. In later interpretation, however, probably beginning with the Septuagint and culminating in the targumic translation, the text was taken to describe the resurrection. W. Edward Glenny notes that for “early readers of the LXX, who were reading Hosea 6:2 in its context, the verse would be understood first of all to refer to the Lord’s restoration of his people, Israel, to himself and the nation’s resurrection back to life after a period, hopefully short (‘the third day’), of his chastisement of them.” He also admits, however, that the combination of “the third day,” “we will rise up” and “we will live” “suggest the resurrection of the dead in Hosea 6:2.” This implies that early readers of the LXX could have interpreted 6:2 to refer to resurrection, and this is reflected in later Jewish interpretation of the passage ..."
John G. Cook, Raised on the Third Day According to the Scriptures: Hosea 6:2 in Jewish Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 188–211.

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