The Septuagint is the Old Testament in Greek — the translation Greek-speaking Jews made of their own Scriptures, beginning with the Torah in Alexandria in the third century BC and continuing book by book for two hundred years and more. It is the oldest translation of the Hebrew Bible into any language, it is the form in which the New Testament writers most often quote Scripture, and for several books it preserves a text older than the Hebrew that survived.
The text here is Henry Barclay Swete’s The Old Testament in Greek, printed at Cambridge and long the standard student edition, resting principally on Codex Vaticanus and filling its gaps from Sinaiticus and Alexandrinus. Thirty-seven works, 917 chapters, 469,053 words.
Where the Greek and the Hebrew count their verses differently — and in Psalms, Jeremiah and Daniel they often do — the numbering printed here is the Greek one. Books that exist only in Greek are shelved under Intertestamental; Daniel and Esther appear in both their Old Greek and Theodotion forms, because the two are different translations.
A caution worth repeating on every page of this shelf: no scholarly morphological analysis of Swete’s Septuagint exists in the public domain, so the parsing here was generated by machine and has not been checked by an editor. It is a reading aid, not an authority to be cited. The Hebrew and Greek New Testament shelves carry scholar-made morphology and are marked accordingly.