Septuagint

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

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

The whole verse is omitted in the unrevised Septuagint, but in a later recension the number thirty is inserted.”

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.

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