Gen 7:1, 9: "God" or "the Lord"
Editorial decision: print the MT.
Says At 7:9 the MT has אֱלֹהִ֖ים, "God," in the closing clause: "as God had commanded Noah" (BSB). The Samaritan text (von Gall, p. 11) has the divine name, "the Lord," in the same clause; von Gall's notes give no other reading here. At 7:1 the two names fall the other way: the MT has the divine name, "the Lord" (BSB), and the Samaritan text has "God" (von Gall, p. 10); von Gall's notes give no other reading there either.
Says In Swete's notes one Greek manuscript has "Lord" for "God" at 7:9 (see the note on minor variants in Gen 7).
Uncertain Which name stood first in each verse, and whether the Samaritan and Greek readings at 7:9 are connected, is open. No lean is taken here.
Claims
- SaysMT אֱלֹהִ֖ים, "God," at 7:9; the Samaritan text (von Gall p. 11) has the divine name, "the Lord"; no other reading in von Gall's notes.
- SaysMT has the divine name, "the Lord," at 7:1; the Samaritan text (von Gall p. 10) has "God"; no other reading in von Gall's notes.
- SaysOne Greek manuscript in Swete's notes has "Lord" for "God" at 7:9.
- UncertainWhich name stood first in each verse, and whether the Samaritan and Greek readings at 7:9 are connected, is open. No lean is taken here.
Citations
- OSHB CC BY 4.0 Gen 7:9 (WLC/OSHB; morph HNcmpa)
- von Gall, Sam. Pent. public domain Gen 7:9, main text and apparatus; Samaritan text, von Gall p. 11 (leaf n550, archive.org vonGall_SamaritanPentateuch), checked against the printed page (scan)
- von Gall, Sam. Pent. public domain Gen 7:1, main text and apparatus; Samaritan text, von Gall p. 10 (leaf n551, archive.org vonGall_SamaritanPentateuch), checked against the printed page (scan)
- LXX (Swete) CC BY-SA 4.0 Gen 7:9, apparatus. LXX: Swete, vol. 1 (1901), p. 11 (leaf n42). Checked against the printed page (scan).
- BSB public domain Gen 7:1, 9
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