1 Samuel 2 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: MT 2:9, MT 2:33
Each card keeps the independently rendered source readings above their shared comparison and reception notes. The badge records the source’s governing classification; disparate readings are marked in red. Each reading retains its original reference.
1 Samuel 2
The lowly raised: Hannah’s song in Christian reception
Editorial Christian reading: compare the reversals in Mary’s Magnificat, Luke 1:46–55 [NT3]. Augustine reads Hannah’s song as a prophetic voice of the Church [C1, XVII.4].
2:1–5 | Prayer, holiness, and overturned strength
Verse MT 2:1 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:1
Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in YHWH;
my horn is raised high in YHWH.
My mouth is opened wide against my enemies, for I rejoice in Your salvation.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:1
She said, “My heart is made firm in the Lord;
my horn is raised high in my God.
My mouth is opened wide against enemies;
I rejoice in Your salvation.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew names Hannah and her prayer and repeats YHWH; Greek has an unnamed she, firmness of heart, and my God in the second line. Both retain the horn and mouth images.
Verse MT 2:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:2
There is none holy like YHWH, for there is none besides You;
there is no rock like our God.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:2
For there is none holy like the Lord, and there is none righteous like our God;
there is none holy besides You.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew’s rock image is absent from Greek, which instead speaks of righteousness and repeats holy. The order and predicates remain distinct.
Verse MT 2:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:3
Do not multiply such lofty, lofty speech;
let no arrogance come from your mouth.
For YHWH is a God of knowledge, and by Him deeds are weighed.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:3
Do not boast, and do not speak loftily;
let no grandiose speech come from your mouth.
For the Lord is a God of knowledge, and a God who prepares His undertakings.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew follows the checked qere lo, to Him, rather than the written negative lo [Q2]. Greek describes God preparing His undertakings, not weighing unspecified deeds. The prohibition’s repeated Hebrew lofty and Greek boasting are retained.
Verse MT 2:4 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:4
The bow of mighty warriors is broken, but those who stumbled have girded themselves with strength.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:4
The bow of the mighty has grown weak, but those who were weak have girded themselves with strength.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both reverse the positions of the strong and weak. Hebrew describes breaking and stumbling; Greek repeats weakness.
Verse MT 2:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:5
Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger.
Even the barren woman has borne seven, while she who had many sons languishes.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:5
Those who were full of bread have been diminished, but the hungry have left the land.
For the barren woman has borne seven, while she who had many children has grown weak.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew has hired labor and an elliptical cessation, here understood as cessation of hunger. Greek has diminution and the hungry leaving land, a difficult expression retained provisionally. Both preserve the seven births and the formerly fruitful woman’s reversal.
2:6–10 | Life, judgment, and the anointed king
The longer Greek conclusion remains complete.
Verse MT 2:6 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:6
YHWH puts to death and makes alive;
He brings down to Sheol and brings up.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:6
The Lord puts to death and gives life;
He brings down to Hades and brings up.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The divine actions correspond. Sheol and Hades preserve each source’s designation of the realm of the dead; neither is replaced with a more specific later doctrine.
Verse MT 2:7 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:7
YHWH makes poor and makes rich;
He brings low and also raises high.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:7
The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
He humbles and raises high.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The paired reversals and divine agent agree.
Verse MT 2:8 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:8
He raises the poor from dust and lifts the needy from the refuse heap, to seat them with nobles and make them inherit a throne of glory.
For the pillars of the earth belong to YHWH, and He set the world upon them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:8
He raises the needy from the earth and lifts the poor from the dung heap, to seat them with rulers of peoples and grant them a throne of glory as their inheritance,
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek lacks the Hebrew clause about the earth’s pillars and the world set upon them. It adds peoples to the rulers and continues the divine action into verse 9. The creation imagery remains in the Hebrew column.
Verse MT 2:9 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:9
He guards the feet of His faithful ones, but the wicked are silenced in darkness;
for a man does not prevail by strength.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:9
granting a prayer to the one who prays, and He has blessed the years of the righteous one;
for a man is not mighty by strength.
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Text: Hebrew contrasts guarded faithful ones with wicked people silenced in darkness. Greek instead describes granted prayer and blessed years. These are materially different acts and recipients; only the closing denial of human strength closely corresponds. Hebrew follows the read plural faithful ones, against the written singular form noted by Rashi [R2, on 2:9].
Verse MT 2:10 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:10
YHWH—His adversaries will be shattered;
against him He will thunder in heaven.
YHWH will judge the ends of the earth.
He will give strength to His king and raise high the horn of His anointed.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:10
The Lord will weaken His opponent;
the Lord is holy.
Let the wise person not boast in his wisdom, nor the mighty person in his might, nor the rich person in his riches.
Rather, let the one who boasts boast in this: understanding and knowing the Lord, and doing judgment and righteousness in the midst of the earth.
The Lord ascended into the heavens and thundered.
He will judge the earth’s extremities, and He gives strength to our kings and will raise high the horn of His anointed.”
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek adds the extended instruction on boasting and describes the Lord’s ascent. It has our kings where Hebrew has His king. Hebrew follows the read plural adversaries but retains the singular against him; Rashi also records these written/read features [R2, on 2:9–10]. The singular may refer collectively to the opponent. Anointed remains a source term; identification with Jesus belongs to reception.
Saints: Augustine reads Hannah’s song in relation to Christ and the Church, including the promised kingship and judgment. This is explicit Christian prophetic interpretation of the song, not a replacement for either source’s wording [C1, City of God XVII.4].
Faithful service amid the corruption of worship
Editorial Christian reading: place the contrasting conduct of Eli’s sons and Samuel beside Christ’s call to hear and act [NT5, Luke 6:46–49].
2:11–17 | The priests seize the offerings
Verse MT 2:11 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:11
Elkanah went to his house at Ramah, while the boy ministered to YHWH before Eli the priest.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:11
They left him there before the Lord and departed to Armathaim, while the child ministered in the Lord’s presence before Eli the priest.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Hebrew names Elkanah’s departure; Greek expressly narrates leaving the child and has a plural departure. The child’s service before Eli corresponds.
Verse MT 2:12 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:12
Eli’s sons were worthless sons; they did not know YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:12
The sons of Eli the priest were pestilent sons who did not know the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both characterize the sons negatively and deny their knowledge of God. Greek adds the priest and uses the pestilent description seen in 1:16.
Verse MT 2:13 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:13
This was the priests’ practice with the people: whenever a man sacrificed a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:13
This was the priest’s claimed right from the people, from anyone sacrificing: the priest’s servant would come when the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged meat hook in his hand,
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both introduce the same practice and utensil. Hebrew mishpat and Greek dikaiōma can express a customary or claimed due; the narrative’s condemnation does not establish this practice as divinely authorized. Greek has singular priest.
Rabbinic: Rashi understands the priests’ claimed due as a practice they devised, rather than a divinely instituted entitlement. That reading distinguishes their conduct from legitimate sacrificial service [R2, on 2:13].
Verse MT 2:14 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:14
and thrust it into the basin, kettle, cauldron, or pot. Whatever the fork brought up, the priest took with it. This is what they did to all Israel who came there to Shiloh.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:14
and thrust it into the large cauldron, bronze kettle, or pot. Whatever came up on the meat hook, the priest took for himself. This is what they did to all Israel who came to sacrifice to the Lord at Shiloh.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew lists four vessels; Greek lists three and expressly states the visitors’ sacrificial purpose. The seizure of the raised meat corresponds. Vessel names are contextual English distinctions, not archaeological identifications.
Verse MT 2:15 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:15
Even before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man sacrificing, “Give meat to roast for the priest. He will not take boiled meat from you, but only raw.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:15
Before the fat was burned, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man sacrificing, “Give meat to roast for the priest. I will certainly not take boiled meat from the cauldron from you.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew has the servant speak of what he, the priest, will take and expressly demands raw meat. Greek uses I for the refusal, adds the cauldron, and lacks the final raw-meat clause. The change of grammatical agent is retained.
Verse MT 2:16 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:16
The man would say to him, “Let them first burn the fat, and then take for yourself whatever your soul desires.” But he would say, “No! You must give it now; otherwise I will take it by force.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:16
The man sacrificing would say, “Let the fat first be burned, as is proper, and take for yourself from whatever your soul desires.” But he said, “No! You must give it now; otherwise I will take it by force.”
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Greek expressly calls the proper order fitting. Hebrew follows the checked qere no, rather than the written to him [Q2]. Both retain the demand for immediate meat and the threat of force.
Verse MT 2:17 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:17
The young men’s sin was very great before YHWH, for the men treated YHWH’s offering with contempt.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:17
The servants’ sin was very great before the Lord, for they rejected the Lord’s sacrifice.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The condemnation agrees. Hebrew names the men and calls the gift a minhah, offering; Greek uses sacrifice and an unstated plural subject.
2:18–21 | Samuel serves and Hannah is blessed
Verse MT 2:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:18
But Samuel ministered before YHWH, a boy girded with a linen ephod.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:18
Samuel ministered before the Lord, a child girded with an ephoud bar,
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew names a linen ephod; Greek preserves the borrowed expression ephoud bar rather than translating its material. The displayed bar is retained, with no silent repair to a more familiar form. Greek continues into the mother’s gift.
Verse MT 2:19 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:19
His mother would make him a little robe and bring it up to him year by year, when she went up with her husband to sacrifice the yearly sacrifice.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:19
His mother made him a little double cloak and would bring it up to him year by year, when she went up with her husband to sacrifice the yearly sacrifice.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew meʿil is a robe; Greek diploïs designates a double or folded cloak. The annual delivery and family pilgrimage agree.
Verse MT 2:20 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:20
Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, “May YHWH give you offspring from this woman in place of the request he made to YHWH.” They went to his place.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:20
Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the Lord repay you with offspring from this woman in return for the loan you made to the Lord.” The man departed to his place,
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew’s asking-and-lending wordplay is difficult: its verb is third-person he, while Greek explicitly says you made the loan. The Hebrew request rendering is provisional. Hebrew then has they went to his place; Greek names the man’s singular departure.
Verse MT 2:21 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:21
For YHWH visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The boy Samuel grew up with YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:21
and the Lord visited Hannah, and she bore three more sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew up before the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The three sons and two daughters agree. Hebrew expressly mentions conception and says with YHWH; Greek has more and before the Lord.
2:22–26 | Eli rebukes his sons; Samuel grows
Verse MT 2:22 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:22
Eli was very old, and he heard everything his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:22
Eli was very old, and he heard what his sons were doing to the sons of Israel,
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The selected Greek lacks the Hebrew allegation about the women at the Tent of Meeting. Hebrew’s sexual action remains explicit, without inventing further details about the encounter. Greek continues directly into Eli’s speech.
Rabbinic: Alongside the plain sexual reading, Rashi reports the rabbinic interpretation that the priests delayed the women’s bird offerings and were therefore reckoned as having lain with them. This later interpretation is not substituted for the Hebrew clause [R2, on 2:22].
Verse MT 2:23 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:23
He said to them, “Why do you do such things? I hear these evil reports about you from all these people.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:23
He said to them, “Why do you act according to this report that I hear from the mouth of all the Lord’s people?
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew explicitly calls the reports evil here; Greek instead identifies the people as the Lord’s. Both report Eli’s confrontation based on what he hears.
Verse MT 2:24 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:24
No, my sons! The report I hear is not good; you are causing YHWH’s people to transgress.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:24
No, children! The report I hear is not good. Do not act this way, for the reports I hear are not good, so that the people do not serve God.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek repeats the bad-report statement, adds a renewed prohibition, and names the people’s failure to serve God. Hebrew’s difficult final construction is read as causing transgression; a report circulated by YHWH’s people is another interpretation.
Verse MT 2:25 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:25
If a man sins against a man, God will judge him; but if a man sins against YHWH, who will intercede for him?” Yet they would not listen to their father’s voice, for YHWH desired to put them to death.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:25
If a man indeed sins against a man, people will pray for him to the Lord; but if he sins against the Lord, who will pray for him?” They would not listen to their father’s voice, for the Lord was firmly resolved to destroy them.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew makes God the agent of judgment or mediation in the first case; Greek has an unspecified plural praying to the Lord. Both retain the final divine intention concerning the sons. Greek’s emphatic desire is translated without changing it into mere permission.
Verse MT 2:26 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:26
The boy Samuel continued to grow and was in favor both with YHWH and with people.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:26
The child Samuel continued to grow and was in favor both with the Lord and with people.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The continuing growth and favorable standing correspond. Later Christian connections are reception, not additional words in this verse.
The faithful priest and the hope of Christ
Attributed Christian reception: Augustine interprets the promised priest christologically [C1, XVII.5]. The historical interpretation represented by Rashi is also recorded at 2:35.
2:27–30 | The house’s privilege and dishonor
Verse MT 2:27 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:27
A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “Thus says YHWH: ‘Did I not clearly reveal Myself to your father’s house when they were in Egypt, belonging to Pharaoh’s house?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:27
A man of God came to Eli and said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘I clearly revealed Myself to your father’s house when they were in the land of Egypt as slaves to Pharaoh’s house,
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew frames the emphatic revelation as a question; Greek makes it an assertion and expressly calls the household slaves. Neither source names the visiting man of God.
Verse MT 2:28 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:28
I chose him from all Israel’s tribes to be My priest, to ascend My altar, burn incense, and bear an ephod before Me. I gave your father’s house all the Israelites’ offerings made by fire.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:28
and I chose your father’s house from all Israel’s tribes to serve Me as priests, ascend My altar, burn incense, and bear an ephoud. I gave your father’s house all the Israelites’ fire offerings for food.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew chooses him from the tribes; Greek explicitly chooses the father’s house. Hebrew includes before Me with the ephod; Greek adds for food to the offerings. Greek skeptron has its tribal sense here [D1].
Verse MT 2:29 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:29
Why do you kick at My sacrifice and My offering that I commanded for My dwelling? Why do you honor your sons more than Me, fattening yourselves on the first of every offering of Israel, My people?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:29
Why did you look upon My incense and My sacrifice with a shameless eye, and honor your sons more than Me, so that they bless themselves with the firstfruits of every sacrifice of Israel before Me?
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew uses kicking and fattening; Greek has a shameless gaze and self-blessing. The offerings, grammatical persons, and final My people / before Me also differ. Hebrew’s dwelling and closing phrase are compressed; the stated rendering remains provisional.
Verse MT 2:30 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:30
Therefore YHWH, the God of Israel, declares: I indeed said that your house and your father’s house would walk before Me forever. But now YHWH declares: Far be it from Me! Those who honor Me I will honor, but those who despise Me will be lightly esteemed.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:30
Therefore thus said the Lord, the God of Israel: I said that your house and your father’s house would pass before Me forever. But now the Lord says: By no means! I will honor only those who honor Me, and the one who despises Me will be dishonored.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both recall and qualify the household promise through reciprocal honor and dishonor. Greek has explicit only and a singular despiser; Hebrew has emphatic I said and plural despisers.
2:31–36 | Judgment and the promised faithful priest
Verse MT 2:31 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:31
Look, days are coming when I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, so that there will be no old man in your house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:31
Look, days are coming when I will destroy your offspring and the offspring of your father’s house,
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew threatens the arm, a strength image, while Greek expressly threatens offspring. The Hebrew no-old-man clause occurs here; Greek’s corresponding clause follows in verse 32 with a different household reference.
Verse MT 2:32 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:32
You will see distress in My dwelling amid all the good done for Israel, and there will never be an old man in your house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:32
and no old man of yours will be in My house all the days.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek lacks the difficult Hebrew clause about the dwelling and Israel’s good. It also has My house where Hebrew has your house. Hebrew distress may instead denote a rival; the chosen reading is provisional.
Verse MT 2:33 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:33
Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar, so that your eyes waste away and your soul grieves. All the increase of your house will die in manhood.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:33
Yet I will not destroy every man of yours from My altar, so that his eyes fail and his soul ebbs away. Everyone remaining in your house will fall by the sword of men.
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Text: Hebrew addresses your eyes and soul and predicts death in manhood; Greek has his eyes and soul and specifies death by men’s sword. The affected person and manner of death differ materially. The Hebrew final expression remains difficult.
Verse MT 2:34 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:34
This will be the sign for you that will come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: both will die in one day.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:34
This will be the sign for you that will come upon these two sons of yours, Hophni and Phinehas: both will die in one day.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The named sons, sign, and single-day deaths agree.
Verse MT 2:35 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:35
I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do what is in My heart and in My soul. I will build him a faithful house, and he will walk before My anointed all the days.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:35
I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do everything in My heart and in My soul. I will build him a faithful house, and he will pass before My anointed all the days.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The faithful priest, household, divine intention, and service before the anointed correspond. Neither translated column inserts a later personal identification.
Rabbinic: Rashi identifies the faithful priest as Zadok [R2, on 2:35].
Saints: Augustine interprets the faithful priest as Christ and the enduring house as the heavenly Jerusalem, extending the prophecy beyond a single historical priest. The notes preserve these distinct levels of interpretation [C1, City of God XVII.5].
Verse MT 2:36 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 2:36
Everyone left in your house will come to bow down to him for a payment of silver and a loaf of bread, and say, “Please attach me to one of the priestly offices, so I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 2:36
The one remaining in your house will come to bow down to him for a silver obol, saying, “Place me in one of your priestly offices, so I may eat bread.”’”
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Hebrew agorah is rendered payment, following BDB; no fixed coin or weight is asserted [D2]. Greek names an obol and lacks the first request for a loaf of bread. Its final request has bread without the Hebrew morsel, and it expressly says your priestly offices. The resulting dependence and request for service agree.