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

Translation was another province of work which employed the learned of Alexandria—where the Septuagint version of the Old Testament was begun, probably about 300-250 B.C.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various