Septuagint

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In this case, the Greek translation called the Septuagint provides the bridge between Isaiah and Matthew, in the form of one tiny translation mistake.

From Salon

On the Ark is inscribed the name ΝΩΕ, the very form the name assumes in the Septuagint.

From Project Gutenberg

And in one important version of the Septuagint several passages that occur in the received text are omitted, certainly with the result of removing some difficulties as the passage stands.

From Project Gutenberg

How he treated the Septuagint, and how the Hexapla and the Tetrapla grew under nimble hands and learned heads, we must for the present defer to tell.

From Project Gutenberg

These eventually took fixed shape in the so-called Septuagint version of the Old Testament.

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