Exodus 29:45

Hebrew Bible

44 “So I will set apart as holy the tent of meeting and the altar, and I will set apart as holy Aaron and his sons that they may minister as priests to me. 45 I will reside among the Israelites, and I will be their God, 46 and they will know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, so that I may reside among them. I am the Lord their God.

LXX Exodus 29:45

Septuagint

44 And I will make the tent of testimony and the altar holy, and I will make Aaron and his sons holy, to serve me as priests. 45 And I will be called upon by the sons of Israel, and I will be their God. 46 And they will recognize that I myself am the Lord God.

 Notes and References
"... In the Septuagint of Exodus, the idea of God’s dwelling in Exodus 25:7 is replaced by the notion of God’s appearance and in Exodus 29:45 by the motive of human invocation of God. The connection of “dwelling” with the glory of God is replaced in Exodus 24:16 by the motif of descending and in Exodus 40:35 by the motif of overshadowing. Critical examination of these changes suggests they are the conscious work of the translator. Due to this emphasis of God’s transcendence, any definition of physicality or containment of God is avoided ..."

Meiser, Martin The Septuagint and Its Reception: Collected Essays (p. 144) Mohr Siebeck, 2022

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