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Gen 3:24 — וַיַּשְׁכֵּן … אֶת־הַכְּרֻבִים (MT, SP) / κατῴκισεν αὐτὸν … ἔταξεν τὰ χερουβὶν (LXX)
Gen 3:24 · reading in
וַיְגָ֖רֶשׁ אֶת־הָֽאָדָ֑ם וַיַּשְׁכֵּן֩ מִקֶּ֨דֶם לְגַן־עֵ֜דֶן אֶת־הַכְּרֻבִ֗ים וְאֵ֨ת לַ֤הַט הַחֶ֨רֶב֙ הַמִּתְהַפֶּ֔כֶת לִשְׁמֹ֕ר אֶת־דֶּ֖רֶךְ עֵ֥ץ הַֽחַיִּֽים׃ס
BSB: “So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.”
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
וַיַּשְׁכֵּן מִקֶּדֶם לְגַן־עֵדֶן אֶת־הַכְּרֻבִים
vayyashken miqqedem legan-'eden 'et-hakkeruvim
and he stationed east of the garden of Eden the cherubim
MT · SP (von Gall p. 5, leaf n556, read on the page image; "cherubim" spelled more fully)
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Alternative 1
καὶ κατῴκισεν αὐτὸν ἀπέναντι τοῦ παραδείσου τῆς τρυφῆς, καὶ ἔταξεν τὰ χερουβὶν
kai katōkisen auton apenanti tou paradeisou tēs tryphēs, kai etaxen ta cheroubin
and he settled him opposite the garden of delight, and stationed the cherubim
LXX (Swete, vol. 1 pp. 5–6, leaves n36–n37, read on the page images)
LXX
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