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LXX Joel

Septuagint

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Chapter 3

1 And afterward I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh;⁠ and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.⁠ 2 And on the servants and on the female servants in those days I will pour out of my Spirit. 3 And I will show wonders in heaven, and upon the earth,⁠ blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 4 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes. 5 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved:⁠ for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem the saved one will be as the Lord has said, and those who have good news preached to them, whom the Lord has called.⁠

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Compare Joel 2:32 and LXX Joel 3:5

Hebrew Bible · Septuagint

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Summary

The Hebrew version of Joel ends with the survivors whom God calls on Mount Zion. The Greek Septuagint interprets the Hebrew differently, changing the remnant into people who have good news, or a ‘gospel’ preached to them.

Passages

Joel 2:32

Hebrew Bible
31 The sunlight will be turned to darkness and the moon to the color of blood, before the day of the Lord comes—that great and terrible day! 32 It will so happen that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be delivered. For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who survive, just as the Lord has promised; the remnant will be those whom the Lord will call.
600–501 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in Joel

LXX Joel 3:5

Septuagint
4 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes. 5 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem the saved one will be as the Lord has said, and those who have good news preached to them, whom the Lord has called.
100–1 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in LXX Joel

References

... The addition of 'God declares,' the reversal of the order of 'old men and young men,' the addition of 'and they shall prophesy' in 3:2 [2:29] from 3:1a, the substitution of the dative for the cognate accusative 'dream dreams' are further minor differences between Peter's version and the Masoretic Text of Joel 3:1-5 [2:28-32]. Oddly, the Old Greek euangelizomenoi ('bearers of good news') for ûbaśśerîdîm (because of similarity with ûmebaśśerîm) is not reflected in Peter's version of the prophecy. In Romans 10:13 the Apostle Paul cites Joel 3:5a [2:32a] as proof that before God there is absolutely no distinction between Jew and Greek, thus giving Joel's statement wider scope. ...
James L. Crenshaw, Joel (New York: Doubleday, 1995), 172.

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