''The Septuagint version of the Old Testament'' is a translation of the

Septuagint The Greek Old Testament, or Septuagint (, ; from the la, septuaginta, lit=seventy; often abbreviated ''70''; in Roman numerals, LXX), is the earliest extant Greek translation of books from the Hebrew Bible. It includes several books beyond t ...

Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, 2nd Baronet (16 February 1807 – 13 June 1862)Leigh Rayment, ''The Baronetage of England, Ireland, Nova Scotia, Great Britain and the United Kingdom'', (accessed 12 Aug 2014). translated the Septuagint version ...

, originally published by Samuel Bagster & Sons, London, in 1844, in English only. From the 1851 edition the

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were included, and by about 1870, an edition with parallel Greek text existed;The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies
Brenton's Translation of the Septuagint
re-accessed 25 October 2016 another one appeared in 1884. In the 20th century it was reprinted by

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among others.

Codex Vaticanus The Codex Vaticanus ( The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Vat. gr. 1209), designated by siglum B or 03 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 1 ( von Soden), is a fourth-century Christian manuscript of a Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Greek Old ...

is used as the primary source. Brenton's has been the most widely used translation until the publication of ''

New English Translation of the Septuagint The ''New English Translation of the Septuagint and the Other Greek Translations Traditionally Included under That Title'' (NETS) is a modern translation of the Septuagint (LXX), that is the scriptures used by Greek-speaking Christians and Jews of ...

'' in 2007.

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External links

1844 edition, scanned
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*1844 edition
vol. Ivol. II
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1870 edition, scanned
at

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1870 edition
multiple formats at the Internet Archive
1879 edition (with Greek, without Apocrypha)
at the Internet Archive *
1884 edition, html
(American English language updates, 2012)
1884 edition, html
(British English language updates, 2012)
HTML and zipParallel verse lookup with Brenton
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