[a].
LXXb adds 17:16–17a Their ways from youth led toward evil things, and they were not strong enough to make their hearts flesh instead of stone. When he divided up the nations of all the earth,
[b].
LXXb 17:18 adds whom, being the oldest male, he nurtures with instruction, and, apportioning the light of his love, he doesn’t neglect Israel (or him).
[c].
LXXb adds 17:21 But the Lord, being kind and knowing how they are formed, neither neglected them nor stopped sparing them.
[d].
LXXb adds doling out changed lives to his sons and daughters.