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Gen 2:24 — — (MT, no "the two") / + οἱ δύο (LXX; SP "from the two of them")

Gen 2:24 · reading in

עַל־כֵּן֙ יַֽעֲזָב־אִ֔ישׁ אֶת־אָבִ֖יו וְאֶת־אִמּ֑וֹ וְדָבַ֣ק בְּאִשְׁתּ֔וֹ וְהָי֖וּ לְבָשָׂ֥ר אֶחָֽד׃

BSB: “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.”

WLC · OSHB: Original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb (lemma and morphology: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Westminster Leningrad Codex text: public domain. · BSB (public domain)

Printed reading

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no word for "the two": "and they shall become one flesh"

MTWLC

Alternative 1

+ οἱ δύο

hoi dyo

"the two" (shall become one flesh)

LXX (Swete, vol. 1 p. 4, leaf n35, read on the page image) · SP (von Gall p. 3, leaf n558, read on the page image: "from the two of them," a plus in its own wording, agreeing in sense only)

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Decision

✓ Approved

Printed: —
Confidence: medium (team scale)
Significance: minor

Editorial decision: print the MT without "the two." Reason: the MT is the base text, and the plus names a subject the plural verb וְהָיוּ already implies, so the sense is the same. No view is taken on how the plus arose. Confidence medium. The BSB's "they will become one flesh" follows the MT.

Evidence

6 sources

Says MT (WLC): וְהָיוּ לְבָשָׂר אֶחָד, "and they shall become one flesh," with no word for "the two"; the plural verb carries the subject.

Says The LXX has καὶ ἔσονται οἱ δύο εἰς σάρκα μίαν; Swete prints no apparatus entry at οἱ δύο. The Samaritan (von Gall, p. 3) has a plus of its own wording, "and it shall be, from the two of them, one flesh"; it agrees with the Greek in sense, not in wording. Matt 19:5, Mark 10:8, 1 Cor 6:16 and Eph 5:31 have the same Greek words as the LXX; that agreement of form does not show which text a writer used.

Uncertain Whether the plus reflects other Hebrew wording or an expansion that names the subject, perhaps drawn from 2:25, וַיִּהְיוּ שְׁנֵיהֶם ("and the two of them were"). No Hebrew is reconstructed here.

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Gen 2:24 — — (MT, no "the two") / + οἱ δύο (LXX; SP "from the two of them")

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