The Septuagint scholars mistranslated the Hebrew word for "young woman"... ... into the Greek word for "virgin. "

The Septuagint scholars mistranslated the Hebrew word for "young woman"... ...into the Greek word for "virgin."

It's in the Apocrypha - one of the more obscure backwaters of the Septuagint Bible.

The Septuagint scholars mistranslated the Hebrew word for "young woman"... ...into the Greek word for "virgin. "

The Septuagint scholars mistranslated the Hebrew word for "young woman"... ... into the Greek word for "virgin."

Indeed, in Alexandria, Egypt, the Septuagint, the era's meticulous translation of the Jewish Bible into Greek, compiled by 70 of the most prominent Jewish scholars of the time, provided the conduit for the propagation of the Judeo-Christian foundations into Europe and beyond.