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The Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures made in Alexandria, the Bible of Greek-speaking Jews and of the apostles; most Old Testament quotations in the New Testament follow it. It includes Wisdom, Sirach and the books of Maccabees. Pitre's method depends on it constantly, because the New Testament writers echo its Greek wording.
Quoted works
- Genesis 3:15 LXX — 'he' (autos) shall watch for your head — a masculine, individual seed of the woman (p 24)
- Exodus 25:5 LXX — the ark of 'incorruptible wood' (xyla asēpta) (pp 46, 63)
- Exodus 40:35 LXX — the cloud 'overshadowed' (episkiazō) the tabernacle — Gabriel's word in Luke 1:35 (p 54)
- 2 Samuel 6 LXX — 'arose and went,' 'with shouting,' 'three months' — the vocabulary Luke's Visitation echoes (pp 55–56)
- Isaiah 7:14 LXX — 'the virgin' (parthenos) shall conceive, as quoted in Matthew 1:23 (pp 72, 84)
- 2 Samuel 6:23 LXX — Michal had no child 'until' (heōs) the day of her death (p 101)
- Genesis 31:37; 1 Chronicles 23:22 LXX — 'brothers' (adelphoi) used for cousins (pp 106–107)
- Isaiah 66:7 LXX — she was in labour, she escaped, she bore a male — the wording behind Revelation 12 (p 127)
- Genesis 35:18 LXX — Benjamin, 'son of my pain' (odynē) (p 151)