The Septuagint - Part 2

The last adjustment made by the sages when creating the Septuagint was to disguise the word for 'hare'. King Ptolemy's close relative (wife or father) was named "Hare" and two verses in Torah discuss the hare as being a non-kosher animal. Not wanting to insult the King, the 72 sages changed this word to "the short-legged (one)". The first picture for this shows ELS's: short (red), minimal skip in Leviticus; and leg (green); directly meeting with "hare" in the text (highlighted in yellow). This is Leviticus 11:6 - "and the hare, because it chews the cud but does not have a cleft hoof, it is unclean to you".

In this other picture for the same concept, the plural, 'legs' (in yellow; from the text), directly meets with another ELS for 'short' (red), very close to the same verse:

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