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

Septuagint The Septuagint ( ), sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (), and abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Biblical Hebrew. The full Greek ...

by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, 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; 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.

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1844 edition, scanned
at

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*1844 edition
vol. Ivol. II
at the

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1870 edition, scanned
at CCEL
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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