APPENDIX.

No. I.-Page 86.

Instead of keeping up to one uniform translation of Nah al Mitzraim, the LXX sometimes render it Φάραγξ Αἰγύπτου, the Gulph of Egypt; Josh. xv. 4. Sometimes Пorapos Alyúrou, the River of Egypt; 1 Kings viii. 65; Gen. xv. 18. Sometimes Xuμæpjos A¡yúærov, the Torrent of Egypt; 2 Chron. vii. 8.; 2 Kings xxiv. 7.; Numb. xxxiv. 5.; Josh. xv. 47.; and, in the text before us, Pivoxogovgos; hereby perplexing the very nature and quality, as well as the geographical circumstances of this river, by attributing to it four different appellations. The like disagreement we may

,Sihor or Shihor שיחור or שחור שחר observe in their translation of

another name as it will appear to be, of the River of Egypt. For 1 Chron. xiii. 5., where the original has it from Sihor of Egypt; the LXX render it arò igív Aiyúrou, from the Borders of Egypt. In Jer. ii. 18., for the waters of Sihor, they have the waters of гny; a river which encompassed the whole land of Chus, a province of Arabia, Gen. ii. 13. In Josh. xiii. 3., instead of Sihor, which is before Egypt, they have òrs anńτov yus κατὰ πρόσωπον ̓Αιγύπτου, from the uninhabited land that lies before Egypt. And in Isa. xxiii. 3, for the seed of Sihor, they have rigua us Tabóλwy, the seed of the merchants; mistaking a D Samech for a w Shin, or

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for

In geographical criticism therefore, little stress can be laid upon the authority of the LXX version, where the phrase so frequently varies from the original, and where so many different interpretations are put upon one and the same thing.—Shaw's Travels, p. 24.

xix. 23-25. pp. 90, 159. vi. 11. p. 299.