Certain passages were recognised as having been changed by the LXX translators for legitimate reasons. B.Meg, 9a–b recorded the variants as follows:

‘“God created in the beginning”; “I shall make man in image and likeness”; “And God completed his works which he had made, on the sixth day, and he rested from his works … on the seventh day”; “Male with female partsd he created him”; “Now I will descend and there confound their tongues”; “And Sarah laughed among her relatives”; “For in their anger they slew an ox, and in their wrath they tore up a stall”; “And Moses took his wife and his sons, and made them ride on a carrier of man”; “And the sojourning of the children of Israel which they sojourned in Egypt and in other lands was four hundred (and thirty) years”; “And he sent the elect of the children of Israel”; “And against the elect of the children of Israel he put not forth his hand”; “I have taken not one valuable of theirs”; “Which the Lord thy God distributed to give light unto all the peoples”; “And he went and served other gods … which I commanded the nations should not be served”; they also wrote for Ptolemy, “and the slender-footed” instead of “the hare”, because Ptolemy's wife was called “Hare”, and he might have said, “They are mocking me by putting her name in Torah”.’