Are there Sadducees in the Masoretic Text?
The scribes of the LXX (the 70, the Septuagint) in antiquity changed the text in places when they rendered it into Greek. From the testimonies of the Jewish rabbis of antiquity we learn that the 70 Jewish translators rendered the text of the Pentateuch (the first five biblical books) incorrectly in certain places, of which they give us 13 examples... If such texts nevertheless appear, it is because of scribal errors, either intentional or due to negligence. The rabbis of Israel contemporary with those of the translation called LXX did not receive the first Septuagint edition well, because of passages that were possibly intentionally translated incorrectly, made by the translators for certain reasons. Their displeasure was so great that they decreed the day the translation was completed as a day of mourning and perpetual fasting (8 Tebet). It is said that after the translation was completed, a three-day darkness fell over Egypt, which the rabbis saw as a sign of divine disapproval....