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The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, but during the third and second centuries B.C. the Old testament was translated into the Greek Septuagint as the Hebrew language was dying out. The people needed the Scriptures in the tongue they understood.

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The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh, תנ״ך), known as the Old Testament to Christians, was written mainly in Hebrew. There are a few passages in Aramaic, which is a language very similar to Hebrew.

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