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A Greek ruler requests the Torah for his library and appoints learned elders to render it into Greek.
12:2
The translators are separated and tested so that agreement will demonstrate the integrity of their work.
12:3
The resulting translation becomes associated with the Seventy-Two.
12:4
Yosippon inherits the legend of miraculous agreement while preserving the priority of the Ivrit Torah from which the translation proceeds.
12:5
The episode also foreshadows the multilingual transmission through which later imperial cultures will know Yisra’el’s writings.