septuagint

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October 15th, 2008 at 4: 22 pm actually the kaballah and the mishnah are both pagan religons as well but came after the torah and septuagint

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  1. A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.

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  1. the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament; said to have been translated from the Hebrew by Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II

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  • October 15th, 2008 at 4: 22 pm actually the kaballah and the mishnah are both pagan religons as well but came after the torah and septuagint —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • This tenebrosity of the interior, he proceeded to say, hath not been illumined by the wit of the septuagint nor so much as mentioned for the Orient from on high Which brake hell's gates visited a darkness that was foraneous. —  Ulysses
  • Here St. Jerome advertiseth the reader, that what follows is not in the Hebrew, but is found in the septuagint Greek edition, which the seventy-two interpreters translated out of the —  The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 19: Esther The Challoner Revision
  • Not to mention the Iscariot which Le Verrier and Adams calculated into existence, there is more than a septuagint of _new_ planetoids. —  A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
  • In the time of Alexander, just a septuagint of years from the epoch of this unfortunate Cyrus, the most considerable troops of Darius were Greeks. —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
 

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