LXX Back-Translation Workbench

Suggest the Hebrew behind the Septuagint, word by word, checked by code against the MT and BibCrit’s scrolls.

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Select a passage to explore the Hebrew the Greek translator may have had. Each suggestion is a hypothesis. Code checks it against the MT and the scrolls BibCrit holds, and differences that could be the translator’s own choice are marked as such.

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