Leviticus — Hebrew and Greek compared
Choose a chapter to explore the source readings and their notes. Original references, source labels, and review records are retained.
Source guide and review record
SAINTS TRANSLATION
Leviticus 1–27
Version 2 • Complete source and reception review
All 859 verses are presented in independent Hebrew–English and Greek–English columns, with a classified comparison for every verse and forty attributed reception notes. Every clause and existing note has been reviewed against the selected main texts and accessible primary reception sources.
Declared source texts
Hebrew. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS), edited by Karl Elliger and Wilhelm Rudolph, fifth corrected edition prepared by Adrian Schenker (1997), in the German Bible Society’s online presentation. The pointed Masoretic main text governs this column; traditional reading forms are noted where material. BHS: Leviticus 1
Greek. Septuaginta, Alfred Rahlfs, revised by Robert Hanhart, second revised edition (2006), in the German Bible Society’s online presentation. This Rahlfs–Hanhart (RH) main text governs the Greek column. RH: Leviticus 1
Göttingen status. The relevant book-specific critical edition is John William Wevers with Udo Quast, Leviticus, Göttingen Septuagint II/2 (1986). Its catalogue record was checked, but its complete Greek text and apparatus were not accessible for collation. No reading in this draft is represented as apparatus-verified or as a securely reconstructed third-century-BCE form. Göttingen edition record
Scope of this version
Both online source texts were read across all twenty-seven chapters. The columns preserve significant changes in wording, subjects, actions, objects, ritual procedure, and legal consequences. Recurrent linguistic equivalents do not automatically signal opposed meanings. No unmarked emendation is introduced to make the two columns agree.
All twenty-seven chapters of the selected RH and BHS main texts have been reviewed. The Göttingen main text and apparatus and the BHS apparatus remain uncollated. Independent philological publication review remains a separate task; the evidence below does not certify every disputed lexical identification.
Comparison key and reading conventions
Disparate marks a demonstrated major difference in meaning or consequence, including legal scope, ritual outcome, narrative portrayal, or portrayal of God. Strict logical contradiction is not required; an addition whose consequence is already present in context is classified on its actual textual form.
Category | Verses | Working criterion |
|---|---|---|
Same | 202 | Corresponding meaning and content, allowing ordinary differences between languages. |
Similar | 186 | Shared essentials with a modest difference of idiom, emphasis, or expression. |
Different | 279 | A meaningful difference in a particular detail, image, action, person, or number. |
Divergent | 106 | Added, omitted, or substantially rearranged material. The label does not establish the historical direction of change. |
Disparate | 86 | A major difference in meaning or consequence, even where the statements are not logically contradictory. |
One classification is assigned per verse according to its principal material feature. Counts are results of this draft’s analysis, not targets or claims about textual superiority. Repeated rules can yield repeated differences; uncertain cases remain marked in their notes.
Dates and witnesses. The Greek Pentateuch’s translation belongs broadly to the third century BCE; surviving Greek witnesses and reconstructed readings must each be dated and evaluated separately. Medieval Masoretic codices preserve a much older Hebrew textual tradition. The dates of surviving manuscripts are not the dates when their entire wording originated. This comparison therefore does not label one complete text “300 BCE” and the other a new composition of “1000 AD.” Septuagint history
Numbering. Main references use the conventional English sequence. English 5:1–19 corresponds to BHS/RH 5:1–19; English 6:1–7 to BHS/RH 5:20–26; English 6:8–30 to BHS/RH 6:1–23. Alternate source references appear in both translation cells throughout chapter 6.
Translation and reception. The Hebrew and Greek wording governs its own column. Rabbinic and Saints notes are attributed interpretations, not substitutes for that wording. Quotation, allusion, typology, and thematic application are distinguished. Numbers are spelled out in the translated prose; source units and significant repetitions remain visible. Divine pronouns are capitalized, with YHWH in Hebrew and the Lord in Greek.
Headings. Pericope titles are editorial aids, not scriptural wording or an asserted official lectionary. The page size is a working review format.