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Job 1:6 — What Changed in the Bible Text

Translation choice · documented · Divine Council

What the source readsbene ha-elohim — 'the sons of God', the divine beings of the heavenly court, presenting themselves before the LORD (so the Hebrew, kept by the KJV and the Italians)

What this version readshoi angeloi tou theou — 'the angels of God'; the Septuagint turns the council's divine sons into angels (again at Job 38:7, 'my angels' for the 'morning stars / sons of God')

In the Hebrew, 'the sons of God' — members of the divine council — come to stand before the LORD. The Septuagint renders them 'the angels of God', demoting a council of divine beings into a rank of messengers; it does the same at Job 38:7, where the Hebrew's 'morning stars' and 'sons of God' become simply 'my angels' — a demotion the Coptic and Ethiopic, made from the Greek, both inherit. It is the same move the Greek makes at Deuteronomy 32:8. The council survives in the Hebrew and the later translations; the Greek quietly ranks it down.

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