septuagint

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noun the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament; said to have been translated from the Hebrew by Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II

From Latin septuaginta (“seven tens, 70”), chiefly under the influence of the Septuagint and the story of its team of translators, q.v.

5; where the Septuagint and the Syriac have Cretans. — The Anabasis of Alexander : $b or, The history of the wars and conquests of Alexander the Great, Arrian
28, he says: "The Law (i.e. text of the Pentateuch) of the Samaritans does not agree with that of the Jews, but with the Septuagint." — Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ, Aaron Bernstein
This tenebrosity of the interior, he proceeded to say, hath not been illumined by the wit of the septuagint nor so much as mentioned for the Orient from on high which brake hell’s gates visited a darkness that was foraneous. — Ulysses, James Joyce

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