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Septuagint
The Greek translation of the Old Testament — the Scripture of the New Testament writers and the Orthodox Church.
The Septuagint (from septuaginta, seventy — the legendary seventy-two translators) is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, made in Alexandria from the 3rd to 1st centuries BC. It was the Bible of the New Testament writers (who quote it, not the Hebrew, when citing the Old Testament), of the Greek Fathers, and of the Orthodox Church. The Orthodox Old Testament canon follows the Septuagint, including the deuterocanonical books.