Letter of Jeremiah 1:69

7 translations of 23 that include the deuterocanon

Brenton English Septuagint

It is then by no means manifest unto us that they are gods: therefore fear them not.

It is then by no means manifest to us that they are gods: therefore fear them not.

It is then by no means manifest to us that they are gods: therefore fear them not.

It is then by no means manifest unto us that they are gods: therefore fear them not.

Te rhoek te pathen ni tila mingpha nah a om moenih, te dongah amih te rhih boeh.

ὥσπερ γὰρ ἐν σικυηράτῳ προβασκάνιον οὐδὲν φυλάσσον, οὕτως οἱ θεοὶ αὐτῶν εἰσὶ ξύλινοι καὶ περίχρυσοι καὶ περιάργυροι.

Κατʼ οὐδένα οὖν τρόπον ἡμῖν ἑστι φανερὸν ὅτι εἰσὶ θεοί· διὸ μὴ φοβηθῆτε αὐτούς.

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.

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.