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Bible Verses About The Septuagint

Early Christian writers often treated the Septuagint as the Bible used by the Church and, in some cases, as a faithful Greek translation given special trust. Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, and Origen all connect the Greek Scriptures with the Seventy translators and speak of their wording as important for Christian argument and teaching.

The evidence is strong for early respect for the Septuagint and for using it against Jewish objections, but it is mixed on details such as whether every book was translated in the same way and how much exact wording mattered in every case. Some writers also note differences between the Hebrew text and the Greek text, so the early picture is not simple or uniform.

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Acts 6:1 primary

And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

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And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.

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And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.

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And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.

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And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the LORD Jesus.

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After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.

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And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

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And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.

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Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:

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And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.

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Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.

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And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.

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Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

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Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

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Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

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And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

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And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.

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If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

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And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.

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Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.

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And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.

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These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

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And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.

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Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

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And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

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And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

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And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.

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But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

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And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.

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For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

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Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.

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As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:

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Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

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And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

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