Letter of Jeremiah 1:62

7 translations of 23 that include the deuterocanon

Brenton English Septuagint

And when God commandeth the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are bidden.

LXX2012 U. S. English

And when God commands the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are bidden.

British English Septuagint 2012

And when God commands the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are bidden.

Updated Brenton English Septuagint

And when God commandeth the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are bidden.

Matupi Chin Standard Bible 2019

Pathen loh khomong te ol a paek tih diklai pum ah cet uh. Te vaengah a olpaek te a khuen uh. so lamkah hmai a tueih vaengah tah a uen bangla tlang neh dup khaw boeih ung. Tedae mueirhol te bang mueimae thaomnah neh thuidoek ham a om moenih.

SEPTUAGINTA

ταῦτα δὲ οὔτε ταῖς ἰδέαις οὔτε ταῖς δυνάμεσιν αὐτῶν ἀφωμοιωμένα ἐστίν.

Brenton Septuagint

Καὶ νεφέλαις ὅταν ἐπιταγῆ ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπιπορεύεσθαι ἐπιπορεύεσθαι ἐφʼ ὅλην τὴν οἰκουμένην, συντελοῦσι τὸ ταχθέν.

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 1:62

Brenton English Septuagint ☆

LXX2012 U. S. English ☆

British English Septuagint 2012 ☆

Updated Brenton English Septuagint ☆

Matupi Chin Standard Bible 2019 ☆

SEPTUAGINTA ☆

Brenton Septuagint ☆