11. These issues notwithstanding, the text of the LXX is generally close to that of the Masoretes and Vulgate. 12. In LXX , the Books of Chronicles supplement Reigns and it is called Paraleipom�non ( ?????????????? things left out ). 13. For example, Genesis 4 : 1 6 is identical in both the LXX , Vulgate and the Masoretic Text. 14. This instance illustrates the complexity of assessing differences between the LXX and the Masoretic Text as well as the Vulgate. 15. The quote is from Isaiah 7 : 14 with Matthew using the same wording as the Septuagint ( LXX ). 16. The LXX is the source of the majority of quotations from the Old Testament by writers of the New Testament. 17. As a teenager, he was a member of the Air Training Corps at LXX ( Croft & Culcheth ) Squadron. 18. In Ezra 10 : 22 ( 9 : 22 LXX ) it reads ????????? ( Vaticanus ????????? ) for Jozabad; 19. The Eastern Orthodox Church still prefers to use the LXX as the basis for translating the Old Testament into other languages. 20. The use of ?????? throughout to represent the tetragrammaton has been called " a distinguishing mark for any Christian LXX manuscript ".
