4Q122

4Q122 (4Q LXXDeut; TM 62297; LDAB 3458, Rahlfs 819) – is a septuagint manuscript written on parchment (prepared from animal skin), dated from second century B.C.E.. The scroll contains a fragment of the biblical Book of Deuteronomy 11:4. It was found in a cave at Qumran in Cave 4. This fragment is also referred to as number 819 on the list of the Septuagint manuscripts according classification system by Alfred Rahlfs.

Publication
The manuscript was published and described in 1992 by Patrick W. Skehan in his publication of Qumran cave 4.4 (Discoveries in the Judaean desert 9). Old designations roll indicates that it was found in Cave 4.

Reconstruction of the text
Preserved text comes from Deuteronomy 11: 4. It contains 27-28 characters per line..

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]• ἐρυθρᾶς ἐπ ὶ  [

]•κόντ ω ν α [

] καὶ ἀ π ώ• [

] • [ The letters written in red font and underlined were reconstructed.

Reconstructed preserved part of the LXX Deut 11:4 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

Full verse LXX Deut 11:4:

4καὶ ὅσα ἐποίησε τὴν δύναμιν τῶν Αἰγυπτίων, τὰ ἅρματα αὐτῶν καὶ τὴν ἵππον αὐτῶν, καὶ τὴν δύναμιν 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 ἕως τῆς σήμερον ἡμέρας,5

Romanized: 4 kai osa epoiēse tēn dynamin tōn Aigyptiōn, ta harmata autōn kai tēn hippon autōn, kai tēn dynamin autōn, hō s ep eklyse to hydōr tēs thalassēs tēs  erythras epi  prosōpou autōn katadiō kontōn a utōn ek tōn opisō hymōn  kai apōl esen autous Kyrios heōs tēs sēmeron hēmeras,5

NIV translation: 4 what he did to the Egyptian army, to its horses and chariots, how he overwhelmed them with the waters of the Red Sea as they were pursuing you, and how the Lord brought lasting ruin on them.5

Location
This manuscript is stored in the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem (Gr. 265 [4Q122]).