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A:By the second century BCE, Jews had spread out into Egypt, Babylon and elsewhere around the Near East, becoming fluent in the Greek language but losing fluency in Hebrew and Aramaic, which remained concentrated in Palestine. The translation of the Hebrew scriptures into the Greek Septuagint (LXX) enabled them to read their scriptures in a language they understood.
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