The Septuagint, from the Latin word meaning seventy, is a translation of the Hebrew Bible and some related texts into Koinè Greek. The title and its Roman numeral acronym "LXX" refer to the seventy scholars that completed the translation as early as the late 2nd century BCE.
The traditional story is that Ptolemy II sponsored the translation for use by the many Jews who were not fluent in Hebrew anymore.
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