Jeremiah Is Shorter in Greek

Of all the examples of textual difference, Jeremiah is the largest and the hardest to wave away.
The scale of it: "The LXX of Jeremiah is about one-eighth shorter than the Masoretic text of Jeremiah. Since the book of Jeremiah is so long, this amounts to hundreds of verses and thousands of words."
This is not a scribe nodding off. It is two editions of a book, differing in length and in the order of material. And the Dead Sea Scrolls contain evidence for both - there are "two dramatically different versions of the book at Qumran."
Which is worth sitting with rather than rushing past. The book itself describes being written, destroyed, and rewritten with additions. Jeremiah 36 tells you the book had more than one edition, because it says so.
Scripture links:
- Jeremiah 36:32 - "and many similar words were added to them."
- Jeremiah 36:27-28 - "Take another scroll and write on it all the former words."
- 2 Timothy 3:16 - "All Scripture is breathed out by God."
The book records its own second edition.