Genesis 7

Notes

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   Ruling 52

   ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ, "male and female," the words of v. 3 and of 1:27, where the Masoretic version reads "a man and his woman" (אִישׁ וְאִשְׁתּוֹ) of the clean and the unclean cattle. The Greek also has "bring in to yourself" (εἰσάγαγε) where the Masoretic version reads "you shall take for yourself."

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   Rulings 53, 54, 141, 143

   Swete's text, from Alexandrinus, reads καὶ ὁ κατακλυσμὸς ἦν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, "and the flood was on the land," with no word for the water. The Masoretic version reads "and the flood was, waters on the land," and Rahlfs and Göttingen have ἐγένετο ὕδατος, "came to be, of water." The alignment, made on a text with the water, does not mark the lack, which is marked here (54, 141).

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   Rulings 53, 54, 141, 143

   Swete's text names the flyers twice, at the head of the list and again after the unclean cattle, where the Masoretic version reads "and from the flyers"; Rahlfs and Göttingen have them once, at the head. The second mention stands where the Masoretic version has the flyers and is left unmarked; the first is the Greek's addition and is marked as a plus (54, 141).

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   Ruling 52

   ἑβδόμῃ καὶ εἰκάδι, "on the seventh and twentieth," where the Masoretic version reads "on the seventeenth day of the month." The Greek dates the ark's resting to the same day of the seventh month (8:4) and has the land dry on the twenty-seventh of the second month a year later (8:14), as the Masoretic version also has it: in the Greek the flood lasts one year to the day, in the Masoretic version a year and ten days. Jubilees 5:23–32 and the Qumran Genesis commentary (4Q252) work out the calendar of the Hebrew dates.

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   Expected: "the windows of heaven" (KJV) / "the windows of the heavens" (RSV)

   Rulings 5, 57

   καταράκται, "cataracts," down-rushing falls, the floodgates of the sky; English "cataract" keeps the sense of a deluge from above (Lear's "You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout"), so the Greek cognate is printed (5, 57). The Masoretic version reads "the lattices of the skies" (אֲרֻבֹּת). The word has no lemma id in the packet and is left untagged; it returns at 8:2.

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   Rulings 53, 54, 141, 143

   ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ, "male and female," stands here in Swete's text from Alexandrinus and not in Rahlfs, Göttingen or the Masoretic version, which reads "two two from all the flesh." The alignment does not mark it; it is marked as a plus (54, 141).

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   Ruling 52

   ἔκλεισεν … τὴν κιβωτὸν ἔξωθεν αὐτοῦ, "shut the chest from outside him," where the Masoretic version reads "shut about him" (בַּעֲדוֹ). The Greek names what was shut, marked as a plus with "God," and places the Lord outside.

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   Rulings 53, 54, 141, 143

   Swete's text has ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, "on the land," twice in the clause, before and after the forty days and forty nights; Rahlfs and the Masoretic version have it once. The second stands where the Masoretic version reads "on the land," and the first is marked as a plus (54, 141).

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   Rulings 2, 52

   ἐπεφέρετο ἡ κιβωτὸς ἐπάνω τοῦ ὕδατος, "the chest was borne above the water," the words of 1:2, where "a wind of God was borne above the water." The Masoretic version reads "the box went on the face of the waters," with the verb "go" (הָלַךְ); the Greek has the verb and the preposition of the second verse of the Bible.