What is the Septuagint?

Greek scribe

Scribe copying Scripture in Greek

The Septuagint is the oldest existing translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek. We were blessed with a gift of not just the text of the Greek Septuagint, but an audio recording of it as well, complete with permission to share it. It was translated starting in the 3rd century B. C. It was in use in Jesus’ time, and quoted from by the Apostles. It is still in use, today. And now, people who speak Greek can listen to it. The voice recording was done by Apostolos Vavylis of the Orthodox Media Network. In the tradition of the scribes of old, before copyright law was enacted anywhere, they place no restriction on copying and sharing of the Bible. Their primary goal is for people to read and listen to the Holy Bible. May God bless them!

Bible translation continues, now, at a greatly accelerated rate. Now we have 4,007 languages (out of 7,396) with at least some Scripture translated. Translation work has been started in many more languages, so than number keeps growing. God is calling more people to work on Bible translation. Creative ideas for using technology to improve Bible translation speed and quality are also helping.

Thank you for your prayers, support, and encouragement. With your partnership, we are able to keep distributing more Scripture to more people in their own languages.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
—2 Corinthians 9:6-8, WEB

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  • Building more robustness into the new Bible server setup so that Bibles can be reliably accessed any time
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  • More Scriptures to be translated and released to freely go to more people in more languages

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