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"The ancient copies of the book of Jeremiah all have the same length and put its chapters in the same order." Agree or disagree?

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The answer

Disagree. The ancient Greek translation of Jeremiah is about an eighth shorter than the traditional Hebrew text, and it puts the prophecies against foreign nations, Jeremiah 46-51 in the Hebrew, in a different place. Two Hebrew copies among the Dead Sea Scrolls are closer to the Greek.

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Why it’s interesting

The Dead Sea Scrolls are centuries older than the manuscripts behind today's standard Hebrew text. Because a Hebrew copy there is short too, the shorter Greek Jeremiah does not look like the translators' own trimming.

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