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That may be assuming too much.  It may be evidence that the LXX  translators 
interpreted the Hebrew text to say that, but it is not sufficient to  say 
that 
this is what the Hebrew text means, or meant originally.
 
The LXX shares the same curiosity found in many English translations of  
Exodus 3:14, in that they render the same Hebrew word ehyeh as ESOMAI,  "will 
be," 
in Exodus 3:12.
 
LXX: EIPE DE hO QEOS MWUSHi LEGWN hOTI *ESOMAI* META SOU,
 
MT: wayyomer ki *ehyeh* immak
 
Solomon Landers
 
In a message dated 09/12/2005 4:34:04 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
peterkirk AT qaya.org writes:

This is not  what LXX means. ὤν WN (omega-nu) is simply the 
presentparticiple  of EIMI "to be". So Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ὤν EGO EIMI hO WN simply 
means 
"I am the  being one", or, as Greek participles are commonly equivalent 
to English  (and presumably Hebrew) relative clauses, "I am who I am". 
This is of  course rather good evidence that the Hebrew probably means "I 
am who I  am", and is certainly evidence for a present tense 
interpretation of the  Hebrew.