Lexham English Septuagint

The Lexham English Septuagint is a modern, digital-native English translation of the Septuagint, or Greek Old Testament — the ancient Greek version of the Hebrew scriptures that circulated widely in the early church and shaped much of its scriptural vocabulary. Rendered from the Greek, it draws chiefly on Swete/Rahlfs-related electronic resources, varying by edition, and stands distinct from earlier English Septuagints such as Brenton's nineteenth-century version and the more recent NETS. Its translation philosophy is formal and Greek-transparent, aiming to let the structure of the underlying Greek show through in English. The work is best described as a fresh translation of interlinear-derived origin, having grown out of the Lexham Greek–English interlinear projects, which served as its predecessor and base. A second edition substantially refines the text, though both editions are treated here as belonging to a single translation family.