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Nov 30, 2009
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Sep•tu•a•gint



Pronunciation: (sep'tOO-u-jint", -tyOO-, sep'chOO-), [key]
—n.
the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd centuryb.c.and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.

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Septuagesimaseptum
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