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Robert G. Bratcher in The Word of God: A Guide to English Versions of the Bible, ed. Lloyd R. Bailey (Atlanta: John Knox, 1982), p. 165.

A number of scholars have made this point, none more effectively than Harry M. Orlinsky in “The Septuagint as Holy Writ and the Philosophy of the Translators,” Hebrew Union College Annual 46 (1975), pp. 89–114.

For same details, see Hadas, Aristeas to Philocrates.

Wevers, Text History of the Greek Numbers (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982), p. 94.

This was already the conclusion of a few scholars of previous generations. More recent research has strengthened this view. Readers are encouraged to look in particular at the work of Wevers, who has been engaged for some years in reconstructing the earliest Septuagint text for the books of the Pentateuch. These texts and accompanying studies are being published as part of the Göttingen Septuagint Project.

Philo, De Vita Mosis, transl. F. H. Colson, vol. 6 of Loeb Classical Library edition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1935, reprint 1950).