In the book of Exodus Ch. 17:4. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be …show more content…
Other Scrolls were written by Joshua, Samuel, and many others. 1 Samuel 10:25. Samuel explained to the people the regulations of the kingship. He wrote them down on a scroll and deposited it before the LORD. -. The Scrolls were lost and rediscovered 550 B.C. 2Kings 22:8, 2 Chronicle 34:14. While they were bringing out the money that had been taken into the temple of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD that had been given through Moses. Isaiah Ch. 30:8. Go now, write it on a tablet for them, and inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days to come it may be an everlasting witness.
The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, Aramaic or the Semitic languages with a few parts written in Chaldean. In the Early Hebrew Manuscripts (MS.) there were no chapters, Vowels, or punctuation marks only consonants.
These Hebrew writings were known as the Tenach. The writings remained in the Semitic languages until 280-150 B.C. when they were translated by Jewish scholars and Scribes into Greek at Alexandria, Egypt. This translation was known as the Septuagint, the manuscript’ accuracy and reliability was confirmed by the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, 900 in all, between 1947 -