Exodus 3:7

Hebrew Bible

6 He added, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. 7 The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 8 I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

1 Samuel 9:16

Hebrew Bible

15 Now the day before Saul arrived, the Lord had told Samuel: 16 “At this time tomorrow I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin. You must consecrate him as a leader over my people Israel. He will save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked with favor on my people. Their cry has reached me.” 17 When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said, “Here is the man that I told you about. He will rule over my people.”

LXX 1 Samuel 9:16

Septuagint

15 And the Lord uncovered the ear of Samuel one day before Saul came to him, saying, 16 At this time to-morrow I will send to thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be ruler over my people Israel, and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon the humiliation of my people, for their cry is come unto me. 17 And Samuel looked upon Saul, and the Lord answered him, Behold the man of whom I spoke to thee, This one shall rule over my people.

 Notes and References

"... In 1 Samuel 9:16, the Masoretic text offers (“I have seen my people”) whereas the Septuagint presupposes “I have looked upon the humiliation of my people” which is offered also in Exodus 3:7. In the Targum, we find a similar addition. The translator of the Septuagint of 1 Samuel 9:16 had a source text which made an intertextual link to Exodus 3:7 but he did not imitate this intertextuality by choosing the translation of Exodus for his own rendering ..."

Meiser, Martin The Septuagint and Its Reception: Collected Essays (pp. 71-72) Mohr Siebeck, 2022

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