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Published 28 July 2026 · Updated 16 September 2026
Manuscript variant · documented
What the source reads — the Masoretic Hebrew Jeremiah
What this version reads — the 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.