Letter of Jeremiah 1:3

7 translations of 23 that include the deuterocanon

Brenton English Septuagint

So when ye be come unto Babylon, ye shall remain there many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations: and after that I will bring you away peaceably from thence.

LXX2012 U. S. English

So when you⌃ be come to Babylon, you⌃ shall remain there many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations: and after that I will bring you away peaceably from thence.

British English Septuagint 2012

So when you⌃ be come to Babylon, you⌃ shall remain there many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations: and after that I will bring you away peaceably from thence.

Updated Brenton English Septuagint

So when ye be come unto Babylon, ye shall remain there many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations: and after that I will bring you away peaceably from thence.

Matupi Chin Standard Bible 2019

Te dongah Babylon na pha uh vetih, kum a yet, a tue a sen hlang cadil a khong parhih hil na om uh ni. Te phoeiah ngaimong la koep kan mael puei uh bit ni.

SEPTUAGINTA

νυνὶ δὲ ὄψεσθε ἐν Βαβυλῶνι θεοὺς ἀργυροῦς καὶ χρυσοῦς καὶ ξυλίνους ἐπ' ὤμοις αἰρομένους, δεικνύντας φόβον τοῖς ἔθνεσιν.

Brenton Septuagint

Εἰσελθόντες οὖν εἰς Βαβυλῶνα, ἔσεσθε ἐκεῖ ἔτη πλείονα καὶ χρόνον μακρὸν, ἕως γενεῶν ἑπτά· μετὰ τοῦτο δὲ ἐξάξω ὑμᾶς ἐκεῖθεν μετʼ εἰρήνης.

When was this written?

The traditions broadly agree on this one.

Broad agreement: 300 BC–100 BC Anonymous
A Greek fragment from Qumran gives a terminus before 100 BC.

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Elsewhere in the world

Events overlapping when this passage is dated (300 BC–100 BC).

1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
500 BC–500 AD The Nazca lines South America
Vast figures drawn on the Peruvian desert, visible only from the surrounding hills.
322 BC–185 BC The Mauryan empire India
The first empire to unite most of the Indian subcontinent.
300 BC Euclid's Elements Egypt
A geometry textbook still in use two thousand years later.
287 BC–212 BC Archimedes of Syracuse Greece
Mathematician and engineer, killed when Rome took Syracuse.
264 BC–146 BC Punic wars Rome
Rome defeated Carthage in three wars, becoming the dominant western Mediterranean power.
221 BC–206 BC Qin unification of China China
China was unified under its first emperor; writing, weights and measures were standardised.
167 BC–160 BC Maccabean revolt Levant
Judean resistance to Seleucid suppression of Jewish practice, producing a period of independence under the Hasmoneans.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:3

Brenton English Septuagint ☆

LXX2012 U. S. English ☆

British English Septuagint 2012 ☆

Updated Brenton English Septuagint ☆

Matupi Chin Standard Bible 2019 ☆

SEPTUAGINTA ☆

Brenton Septuagint ☆