Jonah 3:4
As I am going through the book of Jonah I have found
another serious error in the Septuagint.
Many theologians place much faith in the Septuagint but here is a very
serious error which I came across recently.
Jonah 3:4 (KJV)
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and
said, Yet forty days, and
Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Jonah
3:4 (Septuagint – Brenton 1851) And Jonas began to enter into the city about a
day's journey, and he proclaimed, and said, Yet
three days, and Nineve shall be overthrown.
In the
Masoretic Hebrew the word behind “forty” is “arba” which is the number four.
When “arba” is in the plural it becomes “forty.”
The Hebrew word is “arba‘im” means it is a plural word in the Hebrew.
The Septuagint uses the word “treis” which in the New Testament Greek is
“three.”