Annotatio LXXXII

”The ark rested in the seventh month.” — Genesis 8:4

The Septuagint interpreters, for that which is had in Hebrew — “The ark rested in the seventh month,” בְּשִׁבְעָה עָשָׂר יוֹם [be-shiv’ah asar yom], that is, “on the seventeenth day” — rendered ἑβδόμῃ καὶ εἰκάδι, that is, “on the twenty-seventh day of the month,” an addition of ten days being made.¹ This error our interpreter too, in the Vulgate edition, followed: nor is it fitting to believe that the Hebrew codices are corrupt, since that number agrees with the hundred and fifty days in which the Flood devastated the lands, and the Chaldaic [Aramaic] edition attests the same.