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Gen 3:16 — תְּשׁוּקָתֵךְ (MT, SP) / ἡ ἀποστροφή σου (LXX)

Gen 3:16 · reading in

אֶֽל־הָאִשָּׁ֣ה אָמַ֗ר הַרְבָּ֤ה אַרְבֶּה֙ עִצְּבוֹנֵ֣ךְ וְהֵֽרֹנֵ֔ךְ בְּעֶ֖צֶב תֵּֽלְדִ֣י בָנִ֑ים וְאֶל־אִישֵׁךְ֙ תְּשׁ֣וּקָתֵ֔ךְ וְה֖וּא יִמְשָׁל־בָּֽךְ׃ס

BSB: “To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.””

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Printed reading

תְּשׁוּקָתֵךְ

teshuqatekh

your desire

MT · SP (von Gall p. 5, leaf n556, read on the page image)

MTWLCSP

Alternative 1

ἡ ἀποστροφή σου

hē apostrophē sou

your turning

LXX (Swete, vol. 1 p. 5, leaf n36, read on the page image)

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Decision

✓ Approved

Printed: תְּשׁוּקָתֵךְ
Confidence: medium (team scale)
Significance: meaning

Editorial decision: print the MT תְּשׁוּקָתֵךְ, "your desire," with the Samaritan. Reason: the MT and the Samaritan agree, and "turning" stands in the Greek alone. No view is taken on how the Greek arose, or on what the desire is (see note.language.Gen.3.16.teshuqah-mashal). Confidence medium. The BSB's "Your desire will be for your husband" follows the MT.

Evidence

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Says MT (WLC): וְאֶל־אִישֵׁךְ תְּשׁוּקָתֵךְ וְהוּא יִמְשָׁל־בָּךְ, "and toward your husband your desire, and he will rule over you"; BDB glosses the noun "longing." The Samaritan (von Gall, p. 5) has the same noun in its main text.

Says The LXX has καὶ πρὸς τὸν ἄνδρα σου ἡ ἀποστροφή σου, καὶ αὐτός σου κυριεύσει, "and toward your husband your turning, and he will rule over you." Swete prints no apparatus entry at 3:16. In the same verse the Greek has τὸν στεναγμόν σου, "your groaning," for וְהֵרֹנֵךְ.

Uncertain Whether the Greek reflects other Hebrew wording or the translator's sense of a rare noun (three uses: Gen 3:16; 4:7; Song 7:10). The Greek alone does not settle it, and no Hebrew is reconstructed here.

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Gen 3:16 — תְּשׁוּקָתֵךְ (MT, SP) / ἡ ἀποστροφή σου (LXX)

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