... Exodus 2:25 involves a significant textual variant. The unspecified phrase וַיֵּדַע אֱל ֹהִ ים (‘And God knew’) occurs in the Septuagint as καὶ ἐγνώσθη αὐτοῖς (‘and he was made known to them’). While this variant helpfully contributes to the theme of YHWH becoming known through the events of the exodus, the Septuagint evidence remains suspect. The Septuagint often deviates from the Masoretic Text with regard to divine designators, and here the Greek translator may have read אליהם as אלהים, as did the Latin translator (i.e., אליהם as eos). The Masoretic Text should be considered original because it is unlikely that the consonantal waw of a niphal yiqtol form would have dropped out. Rather, the Greek and Latin translators made an interpretive, smooth rendering of a difficult and ambiguous text. ...