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He continued the generally tolerant policy toward the [[Judaism|Jews]] that Alexander had observed since the priests at [[Jerusalem]] had surrendered to him. His successor [[Ptolemy II Philadelphus]] (r. 285-246 BC) continued that policy. In his effort to make the Great Library the best center of learning in the known world, Ptolemy Philadelphus sought to translate the Old Testament from [[Hebrew]] into Greek.<ref>[http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0840412.html Ptolemy II] at Infoplease.com</ref> Sadly, his staff found Hebrew to be a difficult language to understand, and were not sure of the meanings of several turns of phrase found in the Hebrew text. <ref>See [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Sirach+1%3A1&version=DRA Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 1:1, Douay-Rheims 1899 American edition DRA (biblegateway.com)]. The book of Sirach was originally written in Hebrew, not Greek. See [[Apocrypha]].</ref> So Ptolemy appointed a team of seventy scholars, each fluent in Hebrew and in Greek, and assigned to them the task of translating the Hebrew text.<ref>[[Will Durant|Durant, Will]], ''The Story of Civilization, Volume 2: The Life of Greece''. ISBN 1567310133</ref> Supposedly all of the translators worked independently and arrived at the same exact translation, thus demonstrating that the translated text was as divinely inspired as the original.

Any translation is automatically suspect, if only because of differences in grammar and idiom between the source and target languages. <ref>See [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Sirach+1%3A1&version=DRA Sirach 1:1 Douay-Rheims 1899 American edition (DRA) (biblegateway.com)] ''Ben-Sira's introduction to the Book of Ecclesiasticus'':"...for the Hebrew words have not the same force in them when translated into another tongue. And not only these, but the law also itself, and the prophets, and the rest of the books, have no small difference, when they are spoken in their own language."</ref> Also, later Jews were suspect suspicious of anything that had a non-Jewish influence, and so kept most of the original Hebrew texts<ref>All of the Old Testament books rejected as [[apocrypha]] from the 2nd century onward by rabbinical authority have been found to have originally been Hebrew texts, with the sole exception of the [[Book of Wisdom|Wisdom of Solomon]]. See [[Council of Jamnia]]. Discoveries of Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts of [[Book of Tobit|Tobit]], [[Book of Sirach|ben Sira (Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus)]], [[Epistle of Jeremiah]] in the caves at [[Qumran]] near the [[Dead Sea]], the "[[Dead Sea Scrolls]]", demonstrate that a Hebrew or Aramaic origin of a text included in the Greek translation of the Jewish scriptures in the Septuagint accepted by Christians was not the sole criterion for inclusion or exclusion in the Hebrew canon, but included consideration of (rejected) evidence of content which supported Christian doctrine. Linguistic evidence shows that other Septuagint books which were excluded by rabbinical authority after A.D. 90 certainly had an original Hebrew or Aramaic text. See*[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/apocrypha.html Jewish Virtual Library. Jewish Holy Scriptures: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, by Michael E. Stone]*[http://archive.churchsociety.org/crossway/documents/Cway_102_ApocryphaBackground.pdf BACKGROUND AND HISTORY TO THE APOCRYPHA, By David Phillips] Article reprinted from Cross†Way Issue Autumn 2006 No. 102 (archive.churchsociety.org)*[http://churchsociety.org/issues_new/doctrine/misc/apocrypha/iss_doctrine_misc_apocrypha_origin.asp The Origin of the Apocrypha]*[https://books.google.com/books?id=dtlDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA203&lpg=PA203&dq=apocryphal+books+having+evidence+of+hebrew+or+aramaic+origin&source=bl&ots=CkMPwQMciG&sig=y6w4tnI_wvIqyzCWqCoN3xo8mvQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VGGcVP2RH4r2yQT7toKYAw&ved=0CFMQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=apocryphal%20books%20having%20evidence%20of%20hebrew%20or%20aramaic%20origin&f=false The Apocrypha of the Old Testament: With Historical Introductions, a Revised Translation, and Notes Critical and Explanatory, by Edwin Cone Bissell. Scribner, 1890. 680 pages], page 208ff, citing evidence that the "additions to Esther" were also translated from the Hebrew. (Google eBook)</ref> The [[Masoretic Text]] is the traditional Hebrew (and in some books, Aramaic), and is the text that is used today both for those who read Hebrew, and for translating to other languages.

Saint Jerome used the Septuagint as the basis of the Gallican Psalter and the book of Job of the [[Latin Vulgate|Vulgate]]. After more than a decade he decided the Septuagint was too fraught with mistranslations to be acceptable. At the beginning of AD the fifth century Jerome used only copies of biblical books in Hebrew and in some places Aramaic.<ref>[http://www.ntcanon.org/Vulgate.shtml The Development of the Canon of the New Testament: Vulgate]</ref>It is important to note that Jerome did not exclude from the whole of the Christian Bible the books designated as [[Apocrypha]] by the second century Palestinian Jewish rabbinical authorities and afterward by the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, but he included them among the books of the Old Testament. [[Martin Luther]] was first to separate and segregate the [[deuterocanonicals]] in a separate section apart from the Old Testament which he designated "The Apocrypha".

== Table of LXX quotes and allusions [[allusion]]s in the New Testament ==Compare the KJV Old Testament texts with the [http://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/septuagint/default.asp Greek and English Septuagint text at ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts]

:[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+1019%3A16&version=KJV Revelation 19:16]

:[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+19%3A16&version=KJV Revelation 19:16] :[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+21%3A18-21&version=KJV Revelation 21:18-21] :[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+21%3A93A24-26&version=KJV Revelation 21:924-26]

:[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Wisdom+11%3A17-19&version=RSVCE Wisdom 11:17-19] <ref>An [[allusion ]] to King Herod who "did not lack the means to send upon them" merciless soldiers "full of rage" to "exterminate men" like the vicious beasts mentioned in the parallel language of this passage in Wisdom 11:17-19</ref>

:[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+8&version=RSVCE Proverbs&nbsp;8]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Wisdom+9%3A1&version=RSVCE Wisdom&nbsp;7:22&nbsp;–&nbsp;8:1]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+11%3A19&version=RSVCE Matthew&nbsp;11:19]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+9%3A1&version=RSVCE Luke&nbsp;7:35]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1%3A1&version=RSVCE John&nbsp;1:1]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+1%3A24&version=RSVCE 1&nbsp;Corinthians&nbsp;1:24] and&nbsp;[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+1%3A30&version=RSVCE 30]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+1%3A3-4&version=RSVCE Hebrews&nbsp;1:3-4]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+3%3A17&version=RSVCE James&nbsp;3:17].</ref> <ref name=Sir24>Jesus, the Word and Wisdom of God, gives himself, his flesh and blood, as food and drink, that all who come to him may share in (partake of) the divine nature::[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5%3A6&version=RSVCE Matthew 5:6]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+7%3A37&version=RSVCE John 7:37]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+21%3A15-17&version=RSVCE 21:15-17]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+20%3A28&version=RSVCE Acts 20:28]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+6%3A5&version=RSVCE Hebrews 6:5]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+2%3A2&version=RSVCE 1&nbsp;Peter 2:2]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+5%3A2&version=RSVCE 5:2]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+1%3A4&version=RSVCE 2&nbsp;Peter 1:4 "partakers of the divine nature"]. See [http://biblehub.com/multi/2_peter/1-4.htm multiple versions of 2&nbsp;Peter 1:4] </ref>

:[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Wisdom+8%3A8&version=RSVCE Wisdom 8:8] <ref>An [[allusion ]] to "signs and wonders" worked by the Wisdom of God, in the Book of Acts by Jesus through the hands of the Apostles, "made unto us wisdom". See [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+1%3A30&version=RSVCE 1 Corinthians 1:30].</ref>

:[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Maccabees+2%3A7&version=RSVCE 2 Maccabees 2:7] <ref>See context [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Maccabees+2%3A4-8&version=RSVCE 2 Maccabees 2:4-8]. Those who believe both the Second Book of Maccabees and the Book of Revelation are true according to the ''[[literal sense of scripture]]'' are convinced that the [[Ark of the Covenant]] is not on earth but was physically taken to heaven after Jeremiah hid it in a cave, and that to John on the island of Patmos it was revealed again and was seen by him to be in heaven, because God had fulfilled the prophesy uttered by Jeremiah, having begun the gathering of his redeemed people together again and revealed his mercy to sinners in his Son the Lord Jesus Christ.</ref>

:[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Maccabees+7%3A9&version=RSVCE 2 Maccabees 7:9] :[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Tobit+13%3A173A16-17&version=RSVCE Tobit 13:16-17] :[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Tobit+13%3A11&version=RSVCE Tobit 13:11]

* [http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/resource/septugnt.htm The Truth about the Septuagint. Dr. Sam Gipp (blessedquietness.com)] "''quotations from the LXX were falsely inserted into the Gospels and the New Testament in place of the true Hebrew texts, corrupting the Bible''".