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Direct Answer Based on David Bercot’s teaching, this incident suggests God’s priority is preserving His message and commandments, not guaranteeing one identical wording in every textual form. That challenges the instinct to defend biblical authority as if it depends on one exact phrasing in our current OT translations.

Support from Transcript:

• Bercot shows the “perfected praise” wording is in the Septuagint and is what Jesus quoted; Jesus was “quoting from a different Old Testament text than we have in our Bibles today.”
• He argues Jesus wasn’t misquoting, and the leaders didn’t object because the quotation matched Scripture as they knew it (the Septuagint).
• Bercot later explains God allowed “scribal errors and variations” so “His Word does not turn on every word and every syllable of the text.”
• He says if the Word turned on precise lettering, people would “start worshipping the text instead of the message.”
• He insists the variations “don’t affect the overall message of the Bible or any of its commandments,” and that God’s “message and His commandments have been preserved unchanged.”