Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 43

This is a synoptic biblical reference work presenting the Book of Jeremiah in four parallel textual traditions simultaneously: the Hebrew Masoretic Text, the Greek Septuagint (LXX), the Latin Vulgate, and the English King James Version, with Strong's Concordance numbers embedded in the KJV column. The KJV and Hebrew columns cover Jeremiah 43, narrating the Jewish remnant's defiant flight to Egypt against God's command, followed by Jeremiah's symbolic act of burying stones at Pharaoh's gate as a prophecy of Nebuchadnezzar's coming conquest of Egypt. The Septuagint column, notably, presents what corresponds to Jeremiah 36 in KJV/MT — the episode of Baruch writing and publicly reading Jeremiah's scroll, King Jehoiakim burning it, and God commanding its rewriting — reflecting the well-documented fact that the LXX Jeremiah is substantially shorter and differently ordered than the Masoretic Text. The work's most distinctive feature is its direct juxtaposition of these divergent manuscript traditions without harmonizing them, making the significant textual differences between the LXX and MT versions of Jeremiah immediately visible. It would be most useful to scholars, students, or serious readers engaged in textual criticism, comparative translation study, or tracing how the Jeremiah tradition developed across different ancient communities.

Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 43

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