Core Text
Core Text
מַעֲשֶׂה בְּתַלְמַי הַמֶּלֶךְ שֶׁכִּנֵּס שִׁבְעִים וּשְׁנַיִם זְקֵנִים וְהִכְנִיסָן בְּשִׁבְעִים וּשְׁנַיִם בָּתִּים וְלֹא גִּלָּה לָהֶם עַל מָה כִּנְּסָן. וְנִכְנַס אֵצֶל כָּל אֶחָד וְאֶחָד וְאָמַר לָהֶם: כִּתְבוּ לִי תּוֹרַת מֹשֶׁה רַבְּכֶם. נָתַן הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא בְּלֵב כָּל אֶחָד וְאֶחָד עֵצָה, וְהִסְכִּימוּ כֻּלָּם לְדַעַת אַחַת, וְכָתְבוּ לוֹ: אֱלֹהִים בָּרָא בְּרֵאשִׁית.
English of Core Text: An incident occurred with King Ptolemy who gathered seventy-two elders and placed them in seventy-two separate houses without telling them why he had gathered them. He went to each one and said: Write for me the Torah of Moses your teacher. The Holy One, blessed be He, placed counsel in the heart of each one, and they all arrived at the same decision and wrote for him: “God created in the beginning” (reversing the order).