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
Their great work became known to history as the Septuagint, from the Latin word for 70.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Older than the Masoretic Bible is the Septuagint, a pre-Christian Greek translation which has been thought to be less authoritative than the Masoretic because of the difficulties of translating Hebrew terms into Greek.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The transcription here used is that of the Septuagint, but the vocalization is in both cases incorrect—it should be Sin-uballiṭ.
From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches