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It’s not often that you come across a document of such religious and historical importance as The Septuagint Genesis – in fact its significance would be hard to overstate. But what is the Septuagint? Well, its name refers to the “seventy’ (actually 72) translators – six from each tribe of Israel – who translated the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek, the primary language of Jews in Egypt at the time. This, the oldest and arguably most important translation, was the version of The Bible that Jesus himself would have read – and the one from which almost all the New Testament’s writers were quoting.

Jesus used this Bible. Made in 300 BC for the Library of Alexandria, the Septuagint was independently translated from Hebrew to Greek by 70 Jewish scribes. Miraculously, all 70 copies were identical from beginning to end.