cms@gatech.edu (10/01/90)
Subj: Re: Genesis 3:14,15
This is an old message, however, I've recently gotten hold of a
Septuagint, and thought I'd supply its translation of the above
passage.
[The question in the old message was about the translation of Gen
3:14,15. An older Catholic translation says "she shall crush thy head
and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." The question was what the
Vulgate and LXX say. --clh]
Genesis 3:14 (Vulgate):
et ait Dominus Deus ad serpentem
quia fecisti hoc maledictus es inter
omnia animantia et bestias terrae
super pectus tuum gradieris
et terram comedes cunctis diebus vitae tuae
inimicitias ponam inter te et mulierem
et semen tuum et semen illius
ipsa conteret caput tuum
et tu insidiaberis calcaneo eius
Okay, now here's the Septuagint. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what
the standards are for transliteration, but I'll try to reproduce the
Greek characters as best as can; please bear with me :-).
Kai eipeh Kyrios ho Theos tei gunaiki ti touto epoieisas; kai eipen
ei gunei, ho ophis eipateiseh mah, kai ephagon. Kai eipeh Kurios ho
Theos taw ophei oti epoieisas touto, epikataratos souapo pantawn tawn
kteinawn, kai apo pantawn tawn Theiriawn tawn epi teis geis epi
tawstreithei sou kai tei koilia por[eu]sei, kai gein phagei pasas tas
eimepas teis Zaweis sou.
As I'm not at all familiar with transliteration conventions, I'm not
sure if this was helpful. Pity we can't reproduce Greek characters on
this system. If this helps, here's a list of how I transliterated
the diphthongs:
alpha-iota = ai (like high)
alpha-upsilon = au (like how)
epsilon-iota = ei (like eight)
epsilon-upsilon = [eu] (no English equivelant)
eta-upsilon = same as episolon-upsilon
omicron-iota = oi (as in coin)
omicron-upsilon = ou (as in pool)
upsilon-iota = oui (like French oui, English we)
Epsilon = eh (at the end of a word); otherwise "e"
eta = ei
If anyone is familiar with standard transliteration conventions,
please let me know, and I'll try to reproduce this passage according
to that convention.
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Sincerely,
Cindy Smith
emory!dragon!cms
A dyed-in-the-wool Southern Catholic in the Episcopal Church