OSB’s Differences from the LXX
Introduction
The OT of the OSB relies too much on the NKJV. It often translates the Hebrew rather than the Greek.
Genesis
Gen 2.2
OSB has “7th” instead of “6th”. “6th” is in Samaritan and Syriac, in addition to LXX
Gen 4.8
OSB omits “Let us go out to the field.”
Indicated in the notes of many Bibles such as the ESV: “Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate add ‘Let us go out to the field’”. So at some point the phrase dropped out of the Hebrew, and a Bible that claims to be a translation of LXX ought to include it.
Binding of Isaac
Psalms
Psalm 22
OSB has “Your cup runs over” instead of “Your cup is satisfying as the best”/“Your cup is supremely intoxicating.”
LXX:
NETS: your cup was supremely intoxicating
LES: your drinking cup is satisfying as the best
Brenton: thy cup cheers me like the best
HTM: Thy cup which fillest me, how excellent it is!
MT:
ESV: My cup runs over.
Interestingly the New English Translation (NET) has a note on the word in question and apparently one can understand the Hebrew word as ‘saturated’ or ‘filled up’, rather than ‘overflows’. But the word in Greek also has the basic meaning of ‘saturate’ (or ‘fillest’ as HTM puts it) with ‘intoxication’ as a specialty meaning, that is ‘saturated with wine’. (St Gregory of Nyssa develops his idea of ‘sober drunkenness’ with this verse — among others such as Ephesians 5.18 and Acts 2.15.) This example ends up expounding on why English Bibles even if translated from the Hebrew need to examine the Greek, to understand how the earliest translators understood the text.