Deuteronomy 12:11

Hebrew Bible

10 When you do go across the Jordan River and settle in the land he is granting you as an inheritance and you find relief from all the enemies who surround you, you will live in safety. 11 Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you—your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings that you devote to him.

LXX Deuteronomy 12:11

Septuagint

10 And you shall cross the Jordan and settle on the land that the Lord our God is giving as an inheritance to you, and he will give rest to you from all your surrounding enemies, and you will dwell with safety. 11 And it shall be that to the place wherever the Lord your God may choose his name to be invoked there, you shall bring all that I commanded you today: your whole burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and the firstfruits of your hands and all your choicest gifts—all that you might vow to God.

 Notes and References
"... In the Septuagint of Deuteronomy, the idea that God let his Name “dwell” in Jerusalem or “puts” his name there, is fundamentally replaced by the formulation “wherever the Lord … may choose for his name to be called there”. Exodus 29:45 served like a role model. According to John William Wevers, the intention of the Septuagint “is the understanding that God’s earthly presence signifies the reality of his invocation”. Perhaps the problem of the Deuteronomistic idea for the translator was not a problem of transcendence, but a problem of logic: what should one thereby understand when saying that the name of God “dwells” somewhere? Probably he meant: the name of God is present by invocation ..."

Meiser, Martin The Septuagint and Its Reception: Collected Essays (p. 146) Mohr Siebeck, 2022

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