Jeremiah 27 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 27:6
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.
Chapter 27
Jeremiah 27
Hebrew source: BHS27 • chapter 27
Greek source: LXX34 • chapter 34
Verse 27:1 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:1] At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying:
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No corresponding text in the declared Greek main text.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek chapter thirty-four begins with label two. Hebrew Jehoiakim is retained despite Zedekiah in 27:3 and 27:12; no chronological correction is silently substituted.
Verse 27:2 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:2] Thus said YHWH to me: Make yourself bonds and yoke bars and put them on your neck.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[34:2] Thus said the Lord: Make bonds and neck collars and put them around your neck,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek collars differs from Hebrew yoke bars and lacks to me.
Verse 27:3 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:3] Send them to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of Ammon's children, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the messengers coming to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[34:3] and send them to Idumea's king, Moab's king, the king of Ammon's sons, Tyre's king, and Sidon's king by their messengers coming to meet them in Jerusalem, to Zedekiah king of Judah.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek adds their and the difficult to meet them phrase, whose pronoun antecedent remains uncertain.
Verse 27:4 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:4] Command them to tell their masters: Thus says YHWH of hosts, Israel's God: Say this to your masters:
Greek–English Saints Priority
[34:4] And command them to tell their masters: Thus said the Lord, Israel's God: Say this to your masters:
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks of hosts.
Verse 27:5 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:5] I made the earth, the people, and the animals upon the earth's face by My great power and My outstretched arm, and I give it to whoever is right in My eyes.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[34:5] I made the earth by My great strength and My lofty undertaking, and I will give it to whoever seems right in My eyes.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lacks the people and animals and has epicheiron, provisionally undertaking or work of the hand, rather than Hebrew outstretched arm.
Verse 27:6 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:6] Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant; I have also given him the field's animals to serve him.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[34:6] I gave the earth to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to serve him, and the field's beasts to work for him.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek lacks My servant and instead makes the earth's service to the king explicit. The naming of the ruler as God's servant is not imported into Greek.
Verse 27:7 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:7] All nations will serve him, his son, and his son's son until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No corresponding text in the declared Greek main text.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek proceeds from label six to eight; the three-generation and subsequent subjugation statement is absent from this main text.
Verse 27:8 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:8] The nation and kingdom that will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and will not place its neck under Babylon's king's yoke—I will visit that nation with sword, famine, and pestilence—YHWH's declaration—until I finish them by his hand.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[34:8] And the nation and kingdom, whoever will not put their neck under Babylon's king's yoke—I will visit them with sword and famine, said the Lord, until they disappear by his hand.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the initial refusal-to-serve clause with the king's name and lacks pestilence; Hebrew has explicit divine finishing where Greek has their disappearance.
Verse 27:9 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:9] Do not listen to your prophets, diviners, dreams, omen-readers, or sorcerers who tell you: You will not serve Babylon's king.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[34:9] And do not listen to your false prophets, those divining for you, those dreaming for you, your omens, or your enchantments, who say: You will certainly not work for Babylon's king.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek labels prophets false, has dreamers rather than dreams, and uses neuter omen and enchantment terms rather than the Hebrew practitioners. Pharmaka is interpreted in this divinatory context, not as a statement against ordinary medicine.
Verse 27:10 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:10] For they prophesy falsehood to you, to remove you far from your soil; I will drive you away, and you will perish.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[34:10] Because they prophesy false things to you, to remove you far from your land.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the explicit divine expulsion and ensuing death.
Verse 27:11 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:11] But the nation that brings its neck under Babylon's king's yoke and serves him, I will leave on its own soil—YHWH's declaration—and it will cultivate it and dwell in it.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[34:11] And the nation that brings its neck under Babylon's king's yoke and works for him, I will leave it in its own land, and it works for him and will dwell in it.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek repeats working for him, the king, where Hebrew cultivates it, the land. Greek lacks the declaration formula and preserves a present works between futures.
Verse 27:12 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:12] I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying: Bring your necks under Babylon's king's yoke; serve him and his people, and live.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[34:12] And I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying: Bring your neck,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek 34:12 stops at your neck and continues its command in 34:14, with no label thirteen. The missing yoke, his people, and live phrases are not silently supplied.
Verse 27:13 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:13] Why should you and your people die by sword, famine, and pestilence, as YHWH spoke concerning the nation that will not serve Babylon's king?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No corresponding text in the declared Greek main text.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek has no label thirteen or corresponding death-question clause here.
Verse 27:14 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:14] Do not listen to the prophets' words telling you, You will not serve Babylon's king, for they prophesy falsehood to you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[34:14] and work for Babylon's king, because they prophesy unjust things to you.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek continues the command begun in 34:12 and retains the accusation, but lacks Hebrew's prohibition and quoted refusal to serve. Its positive command is not misrepresented as the Hebrew prophets' negative claim.
Verse 27:15 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:15] For I did not send them—YHWH's declaration—but they prophesy falsely in My name, so that I drive you away and you perish, you and the prophets prophesying to you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[34:15] Because I did not send them, says the Lord, and they prophesy unjustly in My name to destroy you. You will perish, you and your prophets who prophesy false things unjustly to you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek destruction differs from Hebrew divine expulsion and adds a repeated characterization of the prophets' false and unjust speech.
Verse 27:16 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:16] I spoke to the priests and all this people, saying: Thus says YHWH: Do not listen to your prophets' words prophesying to you, Look, the vessels of YHWH's house are being brought back from Babylon very soon, for they prophesy falsehood to you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[34:16] I spoke to you, all this people, and the priests, saying: Thus said the Lord: Do not listen to the prophets' words prophesying to you, Look, the Lord's house's vessels will return from Babylon, because they prophesy unjust things to you. I did not send them.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek adds you and I did not send them, changes audience order, and lacks very soon.
Verse 27:17 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:17] Do not listen to them. Serve Babylon's king and live. Why should this city become a ruin?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No corresponding text in the declared Greek main text.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek proceeds from label sixteen to eighteen.
Verse 27:18 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:18] If they are prophets and YHWH's word is with them, let them plead with YHWH of hosts that the vessels remaining in YHWH's house, Judah's king's house, and Jerusalem not go to Babylon.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[34:18] If they are prophets and the Lord's word is in them, let them meet with Me.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek has the brief meet-with-Me challenge, without the petition's object, the locations, or the Babylon destination. Meeting may imply intercession here, but the omitted request is not supplied.
Verse 27:19 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:19] For thus says YHWH of hosts concerning the pillars, the Sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels remaining in this city,
Greek–English Saints Priority
[34:19] Because thus said the Lord: And of the remaining vessels,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the specific temple objects, the city, and of hosts. Its suspended genitive construction continues through 34:20 to 34:22; the Sea is the Hebrew temple basin's designation.
Verse 27:20 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:20] which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he exiled Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, together with all Judah's and Jerusalem's nobles—
Greek–English Saints Priority
[34:20] which Babylon's king did not take when he deported Jeconiah from Jerusalem,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks Nebuchadnezzar's name, Jeconiah's patronymic and title, the destination, and the nobles.
Verse 27:21 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:21] for thus says YHWH of hosts, Israel's God, concerning the vessels remaining in YHWH's house, Judah's king's house, and Jerusalem:
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No corresponding text in the declared Greek main text.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek proceeds from label twenty to twenty-two, lacking the repeated formula and locations.
Verse 27:22 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[27:22] They will be brought to Babylon and remain there until the day I attend to them—YHWH's declaration. Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[34:22] they will go into Babylon, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek retains only the movement to Babylon and speech formula, lacking the promised visitation and return. The English they provisionally resumes the suspended vessels construction of Greek 34:19–20.