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Acts 17:11

Passages where the Septuagint and the Apostles preserve a reading the later Hebrew text departs from. New discoveries are added as the study continues.

14 discoveries

Psalm 144:13later Hebrew 145:13

  • Missing Words & Lines
  • Dead Sea Scroll Agreement
  • Names & Titles of God

Septuagint / Greek witness

πιστὸς κύριος ἐν τοῖς λόγοις αὐτοῦ καὶ ὅσιος ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἔργοις αὐτοῦ

The Lord is faithful in His words, and holy in all His works.

Later Hebrew departure

(The line for the letter Nun is absent; the alphabet psalm passes from Mem to Samekh.)

The alphabet psalm is complete in the Greek and in the Great Psalms Scroll from Qumran; the later Hebrew lacks one letter's line.

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Sirach Prologue

  • Spirit of God
  • Gentile Inclusion
  • Wisdom & the Word

Septuagint / Greek witness

οὐ γὰρ ἰσοδυναμεῖ αὐτὰ ἐν ἑαυτοῖς Ἑβραϊστὶ λεγόμενα

For the same things uttered in Hebrew, and translated into another tongue, have not the same force in them.

Later Hebrew departure

The prologue is not in the Hebrew canon.

Ben Sira's grandson feared the force was lessened in Greek; at Shavuot the Spirit Himself spoke the mighty works of God in every tongue.

Apostolic witness:

Isaiah 61:1

  • Healing & Sight to the Blind
  • Messianic Fulfillment
  • Spirit of God

Septuagint / Greek witness

τυφλοῖς ἀνάβλεψιν

To proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind.

Later Hebrew departure

To proclaim liberty to the captives, and opening of the prison to them that are bound.

In the synagogue at Nazareth Yeshua reads 'recovery of sight to the blind' and then opens blind eyes.

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Exodus 1:5

  • Numbers & Counts
  • Israel's History
  • Apostolic Authority
  • Dead Sea Scroll Agreement

Septuagint / Greek witness

But Joseph was in Egypt. And all the souls from Jacob were seventy-five.

Later Hebrew departure

All the souls of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls.

Stephen numbers Jacob's household as seventy-five souls, the count of the Greek witness and a Qumran Exodus scroll.

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Genesis 47:31

  • Apostolic Authority
  • Israel's History

Septuagint / Greek witness

ἐπὶ τὸ ἄκρον τῆς ῥάβδου αὐτοῦ

Israel did reverence, leaning on the top of his staff.

Later Hebrew departure

Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.

Hebrews honours Jacob's faith as he worships leaning on his staff, the Septuagint reading.

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Isaiah 53:11

  • Resurrection & Light of Life
  • Dead Sea Scroll Agreement
  • Suffering & Piercing of Messiah

Septuagint / Greek witness

δεῖξαι αὐτῷ φῶς

The Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of his soul, to shew him light.

Later Hebrew departure

Of the travail of his soul he shall see.

After the suffering, the Servant sees light: life beyond death, preserved in the Greek and the Great Isaiah Scroll.

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