The Septuagint - Part 1
The first adjustment when creating the Septuagint
was to place the name of G-d as the first word in the
translation. In the original Hebrew, the words are literally:
(1) 'in the beginning', (2) 'created', (3) 'G-d'.
But in Greek, the sages did not want to give the blasphemous impression
that some force called "in the beginning" created G-d. Therefore they made
"G-d" the first Greek word in the Septuagint, so that the order of the
above words in Greek is 3-2-1.
Based on this, we looked for an ELS
for "G-d created" near the first 3 words
of the (Hebrew) Torah. Shown in the picture is exactly that:
G-d (red)
- created (blue).
The ELS meets exactly with the end of the first 2 words of Genesis
(green and pink, 'in the beginning' and 'created').
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