Susanna — Old Greek addition — Hebrew, Aramaic and Old Greek compared
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Susanna — Old Greek addition
This addition retains the publisher’s separate book and chapter numbering.
Source text for Susanna: Old Greek
Verse 1:6 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:6] And judicial cases from other cities came to them.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The selected Old Greek begins at the printed label six, with the judges already referred to as them. No preceding narrative or labels one through five are supplied from another recension.
Verse 1:7–8 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:7–8] These men saw a woman lovely in appearance, the wife of their brother from the sons of Israel, named Susanna, daughter of Hilkiah and wife of Joachim, walking in her husband’s garden in the evening. They desired her
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The source identifies Susanna’s father and husband and specifies evening. Their brother describes her husband within the Israelite community; the sentence continues in the next source unit.
Verse 1:9 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:9] and distorted their minds, turning their eyes aside so as not to look toward heaven or remember righteous judgments.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The elders themselves distort their minds and turn their gaze; the Greek does not make Susanna responsible for their desire.
Verse 1:10–11 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:10–11] Both were stricken with desire for her, but neither admitted to the other the evil that possessed them concerning her. The woman herself knew nothing of this matter.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The combined source unit explicitly states Susanna’s ignorance as well as the elders’ concealed desire.
Verse 1:12 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:12] As dawn came, they would come, trying to outwit one another in their hurry to see who would appear to her first and speak with her.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The repeated dawn visits and competition belong to this Old Greek narrative. Outwit renders the idiomatic attempt to steal a march on the other.
Verse 1:13–14 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:13–14] And behold, she was walking as usual. One of the elders had arrived, and behold, the other came. One questioned the other, saying, “Why did you go out so early without taking me?” Then each confessed his anguish to the other.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The selected publisher joins these two verse numbers into one unit. Their encounter occurs during her customary walk.
Verse 1:19 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:19] One said to the other, “Let us go to her.” Having agreed, they approached her and tried to force her.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The verb describes coercion. The source moves directly from the combined thirteen–fourteen unit to nineteen; the intervening labels are not present.
Verse 1:22 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:22] The Jewish woman said to them, “I know that if I do this, it means death for me; and if I do not, I will not escape your hands.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The narrator calls Susanna the Jewish woman. Her speech names the coercive alternatives presented by the elders.
Verse 1:23 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:23] But it is better for me to fall into your hands without having done it than to sin before the Lord.”
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Susanna chooses to refuse the act despite the threatened consequence. Lord renders the Greek divine title, not a supplied Hebrew name.
Verse 1:28 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:28] The lawless men went back, making threats among themselves and plotting to kill her. They came to the assembly of the city where they were residing, and all the sons of Israel who were there sat together in council.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The selected narrative now moves to the city assembly; no missing scene is reconstructed. The threats and lethal plot are the elders’ actions.
Verse 1:29 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:29] The two elders and judges stood up and said, “Send for Susanna, daughter of Hilkiah, who is Joachim’s wife.” They summoned her at once.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The men’s dual position as elders and judges is explicit. The assembly responds immediately to their summons.
Verse 1:30 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:30] The woman arrived with her father and mother. Her male and female servants, numbering five hundred, also arrived, together with Susanna’s four children.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The Old Greek explicitly gives five hundred servants and four children. Both quantities are retained, without adjustment from another text.
Verse 1:31 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:31] The woman was very delicate.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Tryphera describes delicacy or refinement; the verse itself does not repeat the adjective beautiful found elsewhere.
Verse 1:32 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:32] The lawless men ordered her to be uncovered, so that they might satisfy their desire for her beauty.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Uncovered follows the Greek without specifying how much clothing was removed. The desire remains that of the lawless men.
Verse 1:33 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:33] All her people, and everyone who knew her, wept.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Both those belonging to her household and all who knew her are included in the grief.
Verse 1:34 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:34] The elders and judges stood up and laid their hands on her head.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The accusing judges place their own hands on Susanna’s head. No additional ritual action is supplied.
Verse 1:35 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:35] But her heart trusted in the Lord her God. Raising her head, she wept within herself, saying,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The Greek combines inward trust and weeping with her raised head. The prayer follows in the separately lettered source unit.
Verse 1:35a Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:35a] “Lord, everlasting God, who know all things before they come into being, You know that I have not done what these lawless men wickedly allege against me.” And the Lord heard her petition.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The publisher prints the lettered label thirty-five a. Both the prayer and the narrator’s statement that the Lord heard it belong to this unit.
Verse 1:36 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:36] The two elders said, “We were walking in her husband’s garden,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The false testimony begins here and continues through forty-one; the quotation does not express the narrator’s endorsement.
Verse 1:37 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:37] and as we went around the course, we saw this woman reclining with a man. We stood and watched them being intimate with one another,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Stadion denotes a course or track in the garden context. Being intimate renders homilein in the elders’ sexual accusation, without treating the alleged event as fact.
Verse 1:38 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:38] and they did not know that we were standing there. Then we said to one another, ‘Let us find out who these people are.’
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The accusers claim both concealment and an initial failure to identify the people they allegedly saw.
Verse 1:39 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:39] We approached and recognized her, but the young man fled, covered up.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The Greek says the young man was covered up as he fled; no clothing is described more specifically.
Verse 1:40 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:40] We seized her and asked her, ‘Who is the man?’
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The alleged seizure and question remain within the elders’ fabricated testimony.
Verse 1:41 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:41] She did not tell us who he was. We testify to these things.” The whole assembly believed them because they were elders and judges of the people.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The unnumbered continuation about the assembly’s belief belongs to the preceding printed forty-one unit. Their authority explains the credence given to them.
Verse 1:44–45 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:44–45] And behold, an angel of the Lord was there as she was being led out to perish. As he had been commanded, the angel gave a spirit of understanding to Daniel, who was young.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The selected Old Greek explicitly makes an angel the giver of understanding under a command. Daniel’s youth is stated; the Hebrew column has no counterpart for this addition.
Verse 1:48 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:48] Daniel parted the crowd, stood in their midst, and said, “Are you so foolish, sons of Israel? Have you condemned a daughter of Israel without an inquiry or a clear knowledge of the facts?
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Daniel challenges the lack of investigation and established facts. The source proceeds to forty-eight without printed forty-six or forty-seven units.
Verse 1:51 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:51] Now separate them far from one another for me, so that I may examine them.”
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The witnesses are to be separated before Daniel’s examination. The source does not print units forty-nine or fifty here.
Verse 1:52 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:52] When they had been separated, Daniel said to the assembly, “Do not now look at the fact that these men are elders and say, ‘They certainly will not lie.’ I will question them according to what occurs to me.” He called one of them, and they brought the elder to the young man. Daniel said to him, “Listen, listen, you who have grown old in evil days! Now your sins have come upon you, the things you formerly did
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The whole unnumbered continuation after the assembly address belongs to fifty-two. The Greek emphasizes the contrast between the elder and the young examiner and repeats Listen.
Verse 1:53 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:53] when you were entrusted with hearing and judging cases that bring death: you condemned the innocent and released the guilty, although the Lord says, ‘You shall not kill the innocent and the righteous.’
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The charge concerns misuse of judicial authority in capital cases. The quoted command is preserved within Daniel’s address, without importing further legal commentary.
Verse 1:54 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:54] Now then, under what tree, and in what part of the garden, did you see them together?” The impious man said, “Under a mastic tree.”
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Schinos is the mastic tree. Daniel asks about both the tree and the garden location; the reply supplies the tree alone.
Verse 1:55 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:55] The young man said, “You have indeed lied against your own soul, for the angel of the Lord will split your soul today.”
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The Greek wordplay links schinos, mastic tree, with schisei, will split. Soul retains psyche in both clauses; the English does not invent a replacement botanical pun.
Verse 1:56 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:56] He moved this man aside and said to bring the other to him. To this man he said, “Why is your offspring corrupted, like Sidon’s and not like Judah’s? Beauty deceived you, filthy desire!
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Seed or offspring translates sperma. The comparison with Sidon and Judah is Daniel’s accusation; no actual Sidonian genealogy is inferred.
Verse 1:57 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:57] This is how you used to treat the daughters of Israel, and they were intimate with you because they were afraid. But a daughter of Judah did not endure bearing your disease in lawlessness.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The accusation explicitly names the women’s fear and the elders’ repeated coercion. The source contrasts daughters of Israel with a daughter of Judah; that rhetoric is retained without adding an editorial judgment against the coerced women.
Verse 1:58 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:58] Now then, tell me: under what tree, and in what part of the garden, did you catch them being intimate with one another?” He said, “Under a holm-oak.”
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Prinos is rendered holm-oak. As with the first witness, the question includes the garden location but the answer names only a tree.
Verse 1:59 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:59] Daniel said, “Sinner, the angel of the Lord now stands holding his sword, until the people utterly destroy you both, so that he may saw you apart.”
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The Greek changes from plural you in the people’s destruction to singular you in the sawing. Prinos and kataprise, holm-oak and saw apart, form the second Greek tree-and-punishment wordplay.
Verse 1:60–62 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:60–62] The whole assembly cried out over the young man, because from their own mouths he had established that both were admittedly false witnesses. As the law prescribes, they did to them what they had wickedly plotted against their sister. They gagged them, took them out, and threw them into a ravine. Then the angel of the Lord cast fire through their midst. Innocent blood was saved that day.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: This combined Old Greek unit includes gagging, a ravine, and angelic fire. All are preserved. The law’s reciprocal punishment is stated without replacing this ending by another recension’s narrative.
Verse 1:63 Divergent
Hebrew / Aramaic–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[No Hebrew counterpart in the selected Masoretic Daniel.]
Old Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[Susanna 1:63] For this reason the young are beloved of Jacob in their simplicity. Let us also be attentive to capable young sons, for the young will be devout, and a spirit of knowledge and understanding will be in them forever and ever.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The selected narrative ends with praise of the young. The construction phylassometha eis is difficult; be attentive to is provisional. The middle verb can also express being on guard or keeping watch [L2], so a cautious or watchful force remains possible. The lexicon does not settle this Susanna construction. No final verse about Daniel’s later reputation is supplied from another recension.