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The Septuagint version of the Old Testament (Brenton)

1844 English translation from the Greek

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The Septuagint version of the Old Testament is a translation of the SeptuagintbySir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published by Samuel Bagster & Sons, London, in 1844, in English only.

From the 1851 edition the Apocrypha were included, and by about 1870,^[1] an edition with parallel Greek text existed;^[2] another one appeared in 1884. In the 20th century it was reprinted by Zondervan among others.

Codex Vaticanus 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 in 2007.^{[citation needed]}

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External links[edit]

• 1844 edition, scannedatHathiTrust
• 1844 edition, vol. I, vol. II, at the Internet Archive
• 1870 edition, scannedatCCEL
• 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 zip
• HTML one page
• Parallel verse lookup with Brenton

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