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Genesis 22 says Abraham saw a ram caught in a thicket. The Greek Septuagint transliterates the Hebrew word as "sabek" rather than translating it, creating a link to the Aramaic word for forgiveness.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Genesis 22:13
Hebrew Bible
12 “Do not harm the boy!” the angel said. “Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me.” 13 Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 And Abraham called the name of that place “The Lord provides.” It is said to this day, “In the mountain of the Lord provision will be made.”
LXX Genesis 22:13
Septuagint
12 And he said, “Do not lay your hand on the youngster nor do anything to him. For now I know that you do fear God, and for my sake you have not spared your beloved son.” 13 And as Abraam looked up with his eyes he saw, and see, a ram held fast in a sabek plant by the horns. And Abraam went and took the ram and offered it up as a whole burnt offering instead of his son Isaak. 14 And Abraam called the name of that place “The Lord saw,” that they might say today, “On the mountain the Lord appeared.”
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Notes and References
"... the LXX writer transcribes it as (sabek bush). It may have been a misreading or a deliberate choice. Hayward suggests that the LXX translator chooses to transcribe Sabek, because it resonates with the Aramaic term for forgiveness, a soteriological term that LXX's original readers may have recognised."
De Andrado, Paba Nidhani
The Akedah Servant Complex: Tracing the Linkage of Genesis 22 and Isaiah 53 in Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Texts
(p. 56) Durham University, 2011
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