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William Tyndale translated the New Testament from the Greek texts and the Old Testaments from the Hebrew and Caldee texts in the 1520's. For this activity, he was eventually arrested and executed.

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The traditional story is that Ptolemy II sponsored the translation of the Torah. Subsequently, the Greek translation was in circulation among the Alexandrian Jews who were fluent in Koine Greek but not in Hebrew.

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