Septuagint

(Also known as 'LXX' and pronounced 'Sep-too-ah-gint')
A series of Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible that took place in Egypt during the third century BCE. The Greek Old Testament is known as the Septuagint (which means ‘seventy' in Latin) because legend has it that either 70 or 72 Jewish scholars living in Alexandria did the translation work. It is often abbreviated in Roman numerals to LXX. The Septuagint sometimes differs from the text of the Hebrew Bible (particularly the Masoretic Text), in terms of order, wording, length and content.