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
Now, for the first time since the Septuagint, there is a generally, recognized Jewish committee translation from Hebrew into the contemporary usage of another language: English.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
In other places the word ἀκρὶς in the Septuagint corresponds to חָגַב, in the Hebrew, as in Numb. xiii.
