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Jeremiah (LXX) — What Changed in the Bible Text

Manuscript variant · documented

What the source readsthe Masoretic Hebrew Jeremiah

What this version readsthe Septuagint Jeremiah — about an eighth shorter, and the oracles against the nations stand in a different place and order

One of the clearest cases where Greek and Hebrew preserve two genuinely different editions of a book, not two copies of one. The Dead Sea Scrolls show both existed side by side in antiquity. A whole-book variant, not a scribal slip.

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