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Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX

About the Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha

The Septuagint is a translation of the Hebrew Bible and some related texts into Koine Greek. As the primary Greek translation of the Old Testament, it is also called the Greek Old Testament. This translation is quoted in the New Testament, particularly by Paul, and also by the Greek Church Fathers. The title and its Roman numeral acronym LXX refer to legendary seventy Jewish scholars who solely translated the Five Books Of Moses as early as the late 2nd century BC.

This English translation by Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton, published in 1851, is considered a long-time standard. For most of the years since its publication it has been the only one readily available, and has continually been in print. It is based primarily upon the Codex Vaticanus and contains the Greek and English texts in parallel columns.

source: https://www.biblestudytools.com/lxx/

What Is the Septuagint?
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The Septuagint, also called the LXX (or Seventy), was also the version of the Bible that the early Christians primarily relied on — both in Greek and then in Latin translation — until Protestants returned to the Masoretic Hebrew in the 16^th century. Even today, it is the version exclusively used by the Eastern Orthodox churches.

For that reason, the Septuagint is anything but ancient history, and its impact is still felt vividly in relations between Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and Jewish Bible readers.

Origins of the Septuagint: After Alexander the Great’s massive conquests across the Near East and North Africa around 330 BC, Greek quickly became the primary spoken language throughout his empire. Within a few generations, most Jews outside Israel no longer spoke Hebrew (and even the ones there mostly spoke Aramaic).
~ This created the same problem Christians would have much later in Western Europe with the Latin mass: that is, most people couldn’t read or understand their own scriptures!
~ sometime in the late 3rd century BC, a collection of rabbis in Alexandria, Egypt translated first the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) and then, later, the rest of the Old Testament into Greek. This became known as the Septuagint, or LXX (the Roman numerals for Seventy).

Why LXX (‘Seventy’)?: Technically, it should be LXXII (seventy-two). Legend has it that King Ptolemy of Egypt gathered 72 elders — six from each tribe of Israel — and placed them each in a separate room of his palace with instructions to write the Torah in Greek. When they emerged, each had written the exact same thing.
~ Historically this event is pretty unlikely (for one thing, ten of the twelve tribes no longer existed by that time), and few Jews or Christians today believe that was exactly what happened. But the story stuck enough that their translation eventually became known in Latin as the Versio Septuaginta Interpretum, or “Version of the Seventy Translators” — which I suppose sounded nicer than “of the Seventy-Two.”

The Septuagint’s Influence on Christianity: A few centuries after the creation of the Septuagint, when Paul and the other apostles were making their rounds across the Roman Empire, they used the Septuagint to engage with Greek-speaking Jews and gentiles and articulate the prophetic basis of their faith in Christ.

The Septuagint’s (Lack of) Influence on Judaism: At the same time the Septuagint was being embraced by early Christians, it was falling out of (already tepid) favor with Jews. It’s unclear to what extent the Greek Old Testament was ever embraced by the Jewish community, though its use by major figures like Philo and Josephus suggests that it had its share of fans.
~ But after the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 AD and subsequent exile into diaspora, many Jews sought to recover a purer Hebraic faith free from Greco-Roman influence. Though some Jews made a few further attempts to translate the Old Testament, by the Middle Ages, each group had settled into their standard liturgical languages: Hebrew for Jews, Latin for Catholics, and Greek for Eastern Orthodox (with translations into Russian, Ethiopian Ge’ez, and other local languages when necessary).Those liturgical languages persisted (and continue to persist) — with one major exception: the upheaval brought by the Reformation.

List of Books in the Septuagint:

~ Genesis
~ Exodus
~ Leviticus
~ Numbers
~ Deuteronomy
~ Joshua
~ Judges
~ Ruth
~ 1 Kings
~ 2 Kings
~ 3 Kings
~ 4 Kings
~ 1 Chronicles
~ 2 Chronicles
~ 1 Esdras
~ 2 Esdras
~ Esther
~ Judith
~ Tobit
~ 1 Maccabees
~ 2 Maccabees
~ 3 Maccabees*
~ Psalms
~ Odes
~ Proverbs
~ Ecclesiastes
~ Song of Solomon
~ Job
~ Wisdom of Solomon
~ Sirach
~ Hosea
~ Amos
~ Micah
~ Joel
~ Obediah
~ Jonah
~ Nahum
~ Habakkuk
~ Zephaniah
~ Haggai
~ Zechariah
~ Malachi
~ Isaiah
~ Jeremiah
~ Baruch
~ Lamentations
~ Letter of Jeremiah
~ Ezekiel
~ Daniel
~ 4 Maccabees
~ Psalms of Solomon

*I’ve included links to both 3 and 4 Maccabees. At this point I’m not going to share, but I may in the future. Of course, if you see something of interest, research it!

source, and further reading: https://www.biblegateway.com/learn/bible-101/about-the-bible/septuagint/ …I left A LOT out, as this is really an overview.

Genesis 1: 1-6
(Septuagint Bible)
In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.
2 But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water.
3 And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.
4 And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light and the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night, and there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so.

3 Kings 1: 1-5
And king David old and advanced in days, and they covered him with clothes, and he was not warmed.
2 And his servants said, Let them seek for the king a young virgin, and she shall wait on the king, and cherish him, and lie with him, and my lord the king shall be warmed.
3 So they sought for a fair damsel out of all the coasts of Israel; and they found Abisag the Somanite, and they brought her to the king.
4 And the damsel was extremely beautiful, and she cherished the king, and ministered to him, but the king knew her not.
5 And Adonias the son of Aggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king; and he prepared for himself chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

3 Maccabees 1:1-5
Now Philopater, on learning from those who came back that Antiochus had made himself master of the places which belonged to himself, sent orders to all his footmen and horsemen, took with him his sister Arsinoe, and marched out as far as the parts of Raphia, where Antiochus and his forces encamped.
2 And one Theodotus, intending to carry out his design, took with him the bravest of the armed men who had been before committed to his trust by Ptolemy, and got through at night to the tent of Ptolemy, to kill him on his own responsibility, and so to end the war.
3 But Dositheus, called the son of Drimulus, by birth a Jew, afterward a renegade from the laws and observances of his country, conveyed Ptolemy away, and made an obscure person lie down in his stead in the tent. It befell this man to receive the fate which was meant for the other.
4 A fierce battle then took place; and the men of Antiochus prevailing, Arsinoe continually went up and down the ranks, and with dishevelled hair, with tears and entreaties, begged the soldiers to fight manfully for themselves, their children, and wives; and promised that if they proved conquerors, she would give them two minae of gold apiece.
5 It thus fell out that their enemies were defeated in hand-to-hand encounter, and that many of them were taken prisoners.

The Septuagint only has the Old Testament books. They are put in chronological order, and some apocrypha are included. The links above take you to the bible study tools website, Genesis, 3 Kings or 3 Maccabees, accordingly.

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