Read the Septuagint online — the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament completed by Jewish scholars in Alexandria between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC. The Septuagint (abbreviated LXX, from the Latin for seventy, referring to the seventy-two translators of tradition) was the primary Bible of the early church, quoted extensively by the New Testament authors and the Church Fathers. It remains the canonical Old Testament of the Eastern Orthodox Church today. This reader uses the Brenton English Translation (1851) of the Septuagint — the standard English edition of the LXX used for study, comparison, and research. The Septuagint differs from the Hebrew Masoretic Text in several books, includes the deuterocanonical books accepted by Catholic and Orthodox traditions, and reflects ancient textual traditions predating the Masoretic standardization. Essential for patristic study, Orthodox theology, and New Testament textual scholarship.