4Q122

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4Q122

4Q122 (also 4QLXXDtn , No. 819 after Rahlfs) is a fragment of a parchment manuscript from the 2nd century BC. It contains a small part from the book Deuteronomy 11.4 in Greek . It is one of the oldest surviving fragments of a Septuagint translation of the Torah.

The text parts received are

] • ς π • [
] • ἐρυθρᾶς ἐπ ὶ [
] • κόντ ω ν α [
] καὶ ἀ π ώ • [
] • [

Gaps are filled in in green

The full text would be

αὐτῶν, ὡ ς ἐπ έκλυσε τὸ ὕδωρ τῆς θαλάσσης
τῆς ἐρυθρᾶς ἐπὶ προσώπου αὐτῶν
καταδιω κόντων α ὐτῶν ἐκ τῶν ὀπίσω
ὑμῶν καὶ ἀπώλ εσεν αὐτοὺς Κύριος

The fragment was part of a scroll in Cave 4Q near Qumran on the Dead Sea in Israel. It is now in the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem , Inv. Size 265 (4Q122).

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