LXX Gen 8:1–12: the waters recede, the raven and the dove

Says Swete’s Genesis 8 numbering matches the English and the MT. At 8:1 ὁ θεός renders אֱלֹהִים twice, and Swete adds καὶ πάντων τῶν πετεινῶν καὶ πάντων τῶν ἑρπετῶν to the Hebrew’s beasts and cattle (כָּל־הַחַיָּה, כָּל־הַבְּהֵמָה). Swete’s apparatus lacks the creeping things in the Cotton and Bodleian Genesis.

Says 8:1 has πνεῦμα (pneuma, “wind, spirit”) for רוּחַ (ruakh) and ἐκόπασεν τὸ ὕδωρ for וַיָּשֹׁכּוּ הַמָּיִם (vayyashokku hammayim). 8:2 repeats αἱ πηγαὶ τῆς ἀβύσσου and οἱ καταράκται τοῦ οὐρανοῦ from Swete 7:11.

Says At 8:4 the ark rests ἑβδόμῃ καὶ εἰκάδι τοῦ μηνός, “the twenty-seventh of the month”, where the MT has בְּשִׁבְעָה־עָשָׂר יוֹם (beshiv'ah-'asar yom, “on the seventeenth day”); the Bodleian Genesis omits ἑβδόμῃ. At 8:5 the mountaintops appear ἐν δὲ τῷ ἑνδεκάτῳ μηνί, the eleventh month, where the MT has בָּעֲשִׂירִי (ba'asiri, “in the tenth”).

Says At 8:7 the raven is sent τοῦ ἰδεῖν εἰ κεκόπακεν τὸ ὕδωρ, a purpose clause the Hebrew lacks, and ἐξελθὼν οὐχ ὑπέστρεψεν, “having gone out, it did not return”, for וַיֵּצֵא יָצוֹא וָשׁוֹב (vayyetse yatso vashov, “it went out, going out and returning”).

Uncertain No lean is taken on which wording of 8:7 is original.

Says In 8:8–12 the dove is περιστερά for הַיּוֹנָה; 8:9 has ἀνάπαυσιν for מָנוֹחַ (manoakh), and 8:11 φύλλον ἐλαίας κάρφος for עֲלֵה־זַיִת טָרָף ('aleh-zayit taraf). ἐπισχὼν stands at both 8:10 and 8:12 for the two Hebrew forms וַיָּחֶל and וַיִּיָּחֶל.