[redleghunter]

That very well explains why some Hebrew "puns" were there.

That also explains why there was an LXX before the First Advent of Christ. If all the Jews/Hebrews spoke Hebrew and Aramaic then why commission the "70" to translate the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek?

[CynicalBear]

>> If all the Jews/Hebrews spoke Hebrew and Aramaic then why commission the "70" to translate the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek?<<

And that in the 2nd century BCE.

[Errant]

That also explains why there was an LXX before the First Advent of Christ. If all the Jews/Hebrews spoke Hebrew and Aramaic then why commission the "70" to translate the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek?

"The traditional story is that Ptolemy II sponsored the translation for use by the many Alexandrian Jews who were not fluent in Hebrew but fluent in Koine Greek, which was the lingua franca of Alexandria, Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE until the development of Byzantine Greek around 600 CE."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint