Septuagint as a Beginning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint

Sep·tu·a·gint [sep-too-uh-jint, -tyoo-, sep-choo-] NOUN

• Septuagint believed to be the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament (mainly the first five Books or "Pentateuch"),
  
• traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II
• most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch (the first five Books of the Old Testament) was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c.
• and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.
• from Latin "septuaginta" meaning "seventy,"
• The Roman numeral LXX (seventy) is commonly used as an abbreviation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint
Go to the above link and read at least till you see about the 70 or 72  in their rooms working on translating into Greek the first part of the Jewish Old Testament

1>Originally

• The Old Testament was  written  in Hebrew.
  
• (The Septuagint was the translation years later from Hebrew into Greek of the Old Testament's first five Books.
  
• Jesus spoke Aramaic.
  
• The New Testament was written primarily  in Greek.
• Others eventually translated into Greek and other languages. . . . . and then Latin and  . . . .
  

2>The Septuagint was the translation from Hebrew into Greek of the Old Testament's first five Books, as we have said already

3>Then the Roman Church had the Bible translated to Latin.

• Finally it was translated to English
  
• tho the Catholics Church fought against it being done
  
• and they often killed the translators
  
• as the English Catholic Priests wanted it to stay in Latin
  
• because they did not want the people of England to be able to read the Bible themselves,
  
• but wanted people to have to rely on the Catholic Priests and their interpretation.
  

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This is also on the internet at
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Blog:
http://biblebydon.blogspot.com/2014/10/httpen.html

Sep·tu·a·gint [sep-too-uh-jint, -tyoo-, sep-choo-] NOUN

• the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II:
• most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c.
• and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.