The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex.[10] Jeremiah 47 is a part of the prophecies in Jeremiah 46-49 in the section of Prophecies against the nations (Jeremiah 46-51). {P}: open parashah; {S}: closed parashah.
{P} 47:1-7 {P}
Verse numbering
The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text (Hebrew), and Vulgate (Latin), in some places differs from that in the Septuagint (LXX, the Greek Bible used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and others) according to Rahlfs or Brenton. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971.[11]
The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study (CATSS) based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta (1935) differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition (1957) in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs' edition (=CATSS).[11]
Hebrew, Vulgate, English
Rahlfs' LXX (CATSS)
47:1-7
29:1-7
40:1-16
47:1-16
Verse 1
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh attacked Gaza.[12]
The New International Version explains more clearly: Gaza will shave her head in mourning.[14] Biblical commentator A. W. Streane notes that it is an "unsuitable description" to refer to this coastal plain as a "valley" and he therefore prefers the wording of the Septuagint, "the remainder of the Anakim", in place of "the remnant of their valley".[15] The Anakim were a race of giants said to have lived in the southern part of the land of Canaan.[16]
O'Connor, Kathleen M. (2007). "23. Jeremiah". In Barton, John; Muddiman, John (eds.). The Oxford Bible Commentary (first (paperback) ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 487–533. ISBN978-0199277186. Retrieved February 6, 2019.