Genesis 5: the ages in the MT, the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek
Editorial decision: print the MT ages, with the SP and LXX beside them.
SP: von Gall, pp. 7–9; LXX: Swete, pp. 7–9 (ENG 5:32 = Swete 6:1a). At 5:17 (Mahalalel's total) one Samaritan manuscript transposes letters in "ninety"; another is damaged there.
| fathering/after/total | MT | SP | LXX | |---|---|---|---| | Adam | 130/800/930 | 130/800/930 | 230/700/930 | | Seth | 105/807/912 | 105/807/912 | 205/707/912 | | Enosh | 90/815/905 | 90/815/905 | 190/715/905 | | Kenan | 70/840/910 | 70/840/910 | 170/740/910 | | Mahalalel | 65/830/895 | 65/830/895 | 165/730/895 | | Jared | 162/800/962 | 62/785/847 | 162/800/962 | | Enoch | 65/300/365 | 65/300/365 | 165/200/365 | | Methuselah | 187/782/969 | 67/653/720 | 187/782/969 | | Lamech | 182/595/777 | 53/600/653 | 188/565/753 | | Noah | 500 | 500 | 500 |
Says For Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel and Enoch, the Greek has a hundred more years before fathering, a hundred fewer after; the SP has the MT figures. For Jared and Methuselah the Greek agrees with the MT; for them and Lamech the SP has lower ages at fathering and lower totals. The BSB's ages follow the MT. At 5:25 Swete prints ἑκατὸν καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα ἑπτὰ, with the MT; its notes show that in Codex Alexandrinus the letters of "eighty" stand over an erasure, where the first hand apparently began the word for "sixty."
Uncertain Which set is earlier, and whether any was adjusted; no lean is taken.
Claims
- SaysLXX +100 / −100, same total, for Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel and Enoch; Jared and Methuselah agree with the MT; Lamech differs. SP agrees with the MT for Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel and Enoch; lower ages at fathering and lower totals for Jared, Methuselah and Lamech; at 5:17 one Samaritan manuscript transposes letters in "ninety"; another is damaged there. BSB follows the MT; 5:25 Swete 187, a correction over an erasure in Alexandrinus.
- UncertainWhich tradition is earlier, and whether any was adjusted; no lean.
Citations
- OSHB CC BY 4.0 Gen 5:3–32 (WLC/OSHB; morph numerals from the OSHB words: H7970, H3967, H8141 and the units and tens; 5:3, 4, 5, 5:6, 7, 8, 5:9, 10, 11, 5:12, 13, 14, 5:15, 16, 17, 5:18, 19, 20, 5:21, 22, 23, 5:25, 26, 27, 5:28, 30, 31; 5:32)
- von Gall, Sam. Pent. public domain Gen 5:3–13 (5:13 begins), main text; Samaritan text, von Gall p. 7 (leaf n554, archive.org vonGall_SamaritanPentateuch), read on the page image
- von Gall, Sam. Pent. public domain Gen 5:13–29, main text, and the apparatus at 5:17; Samaritan text, von Gall p. 8 (leaf n553, archive.org vonGall_SamaritanPentateuch), read on the page image
- von Gall, Sam. Pent. public domain Gen 5:30–32, main text; Samaritan text, von Gall p. 9 (leaf n552, archive.org vonGall_SamaritanPentateuch), read on the page image
- LXX (Swete) CC BY-SA 4.0 Gen 5:3–31 and 6:1a, text, and the apparatus at 5:25. LXX read on the Swete page image, vol. 1 (1901), pp. 7–9 (leaves n38–n40).
- BSB public domain Gen 5:3–32
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