...Indeed, but getting (probably) even closer in time to the original, the LXX is EGW EIMI hO WN "I am the being (one)", all present tenses. This is because, according to many, Hebrew changed from being aspectual to being tensed during the Hellenistic period, from the influence of Greek. Early in this period, when LXX was translated, the original aspectual sense was still understood. By several centuries later, the time of Theodotion and Aquila, the aspectual sense was being lost and the verbs were being understood as future tense forms.
In attempting to bring the Greek of Exodus 3:14 closer in meaning to the Hebrew text, the 1st (or 2nd) century translators Theodotion and Aquila gave us ESOMAI (hOS) ESOMAI, "I will be who I will be."
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