Bible Versions

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Mr Till,
What do you know of this version, ? I found it floating around 
If this statement is correct it places a version of texts, in print
long before any I have knowledge of.
in my estimate it is easy to find seventy " lying " Jews, but I
have no notion as to the source of the "miraculous power,"
assist.

The Alexandrian version, or what is known as the
Septuagint, translated by seventy learned Jews, assisted by
"miraculous power," about two hundred years before Christ, 

And this

both the Hebrew Greek words for breath were also used (in their languages) to
refer to one's soul.
The Hebrew word for kidney has been translated soul in modern English Bibles
to avoid explanations of why the ancient Hebrews attributed moral to a
person's kidneys.      

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