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Gen.2:2. “And God finished on the sixth day His works which He had done.” Instead of "sixth day" in the Hebrew text there is "seventh day." Therefore, we will slightly limit the insolence of the Jews who boast of the Sabbath rest, since even then, in the beginning, the Sabbath was abolished, if God does things on the Sabbath, bringing them to an end on this day and blessing the day itself, because on the Sabbath He completed everything. Gen.2:8. “And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east.” Instead of "paradise" in the Hebrew text there is "garden", that is, gan (גַּן). Further, eden (עֵ ֖ דֶן) means "enjoyment". Instead, Symmachus translated “blooming paradise.” Also, what follows (“in the east”) is written in the Hebrew text as mecedem (מִקֶּ ֑ דֶם). Akila put ἀπὸ ἀρχῆ ϛ instead, and I would say “from the beginning.” But for Symmachus - ἐν πρώτη ϛ, for Theodotion - ἐν πρώτοι ϛ, which also means not the east, but the beginning. From here it is most clearly proven that even before God created heaven and earth, He created paradise, as it is written in the Hebrew text: “The Lord God planted paradise in Eden from the beginning.” Gen.2:11. “The name of one is Pison.” It is believed that this is the Indian Ganges River. Gen.2:12. “There is coal and light green stone.” Instead of "coal" and "light green stone", others translated "bdellion" and "onyx". Gen.2:15. “And the Lord God took the man and placed him in the paradise of pleasure.” Instead of "enjoyment" in the Hebrew text there is eden (עֵ ֖ דֶן). It turns out that in this case the Seventy interpreters themselves translated eden as “pleasure.” And Symmachus, who a little earlier translated “blooming paradise,” here put ἐν τῷ παρα δε ί σ ῳ τῆ ϛ ἀκτῆ ϛ, which also means “charm” and “pleasure.” Gen.2:17. “But on the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.” Symmachus translated it better. He says: “You will be mortal.” Gen.2:21. “And the Lord God sent against Adam ἔκστασι ϛ ". Instead of the word ἔκστασι ϛ, that is, “exit of the mind,” in the Hebrew text there is thardema (תַּרְדֵּמָ ֛ ה), which Aquila translated as καταϕορά, and Symmachus - [...] άρο ϛ, that is, “heavy and deep sleep.” And at the end it follows: “And he slept.” The same verb is used to describe Jonah’s sleep when he snored. Gen.2:23. “Behold, this is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she will be called wife because she was taken from her husband.” It does not seem clear in the Greek and Latin texts why she would be called a wife because she was taken from her husband. But in the Hebrew text the etymology is preserved. Because the husband sounds like is (אִ ֖ ישׁ), and the wife sounds like issa (אִשָּׁ ֔ ה). Thus, from is, the wife was quite rightly called issa. Therefore, Symmachus perfectly preserved the etymology even in the Greek translation. He says: “It will be called ἀνδρὶ ϛ ὅ τι ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸς ἐλ ή μφθη.” In Latin I would say it this way: “She will be called virago, because she was taken from her husband (vir).” In addition, Theodotion suggested a different etymology. He says: “She will be called taking, because she was taken from her husband.” The fact is that the word issa, depending on the modification of the sound, can also be understood as “taking”.