I will establish my covenant with you
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καὶ στήσω τὴν διαθήκην μου πρὸς σέ· εἰσελεύσῃ δὲ εἰς τὴν κιβωτόν, σὺ καὶ οἱ υἱοί σου καὶ ἡ γυνή σου καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες τῶν υἱῶν σου μετὰ σοῦ.
Διαθήκη makes its very first appearance in the Bible here — a landmark word. Διαθήκη (διά + τίθημι, “a thing laid out/arranged”) meant in ordinary Greek a “will, testament, disposition of property” — an arrangement one party sets the terms of. The LXX translators pointedly avoided συνθήκη, the ordinary Greek word for a “contract, mutual agreement” between equals, choosing instead a word for a one-sided grant — because a covenant with God is not a negotiation between peers. This is the same word that gives the New Testament its very name (ἡ καινὴ διαθήκη, “the new covenant/testament”, Matt 26:28, Heb 8–9), and it renders Hebrew בְּרִית (berith). Στήσω, “I will establish” (from ἵστημι, “to set up, cause to stand”), is the verb behind the covenant’s ratification: it is made to “stand firm.”
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