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

Their great work became known to history as the Septuagint, from the Latin word for 70.

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

These eventually took fixed shape in the so-called Septuagint version of the Old Testament.

From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin