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Originally posted by Contra_Mundum
Quote: Originally posted by larryjf
1 Sam 13:1
Saul was...years old when he began to reign, and he reigned... and two years over Israel. | That is the oddest thing I think I've ever seen in a translation of any kind, that wasn't some fragmentary Sumerian inscription or Qumran flake, or the like. What is that doing in an otherwise reliable translation of the Scriptures? That is the best they could do to make that place readable?
I am looking at the electronic version, after all. What do the print versions say? Same garble?
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The Notes:
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Notes:
1 )The number is lacking in Hebrew and Septuagint
2 )Two may not be the entire number; something may have dropped out
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NASB:
Saul was
forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
thirty-two years over Israel. (italics in original)
NIV:
Saul was thirty {1 A few late manuscripts of the Septuagint; Hebrew does not have thirty.} years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-{1 See the round number in Acts 13:21; Hebrew does not have forty-.}two years.