Septuagint
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The Greek Septuagint version suggested that 2,242 years elapsed between the dawn of time and the biblical flood.
From Slate • Oct. 12, 2012
It contains the first printing of the Septuagint, or Old Testament Scriptures in Greek.
From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2010
The Bible approved by Cushing contains a translation of the Apocrypha�the 15 Old Testament books found in the Greek Septuagint but not in the Hebrew Bible, twelve of them accepted by Catholics as canonical.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their great work became known to history as the Septuagint, from the Latin word for 70.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the Ark is inscribed the name ΝΩΕ, the very form the name assumes in the Septuagint.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various
