Philo of Alexandria and the Septuagint

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Can someone please point me to a website that show’s Philo’s account of how the Septuagint text came about?

I just wanted to confirm what I heard regarding 70 or 72 trusted Jewish scholars privately in each cell translated the Old Testament from Hebrew to Greek and they miraculously found they matched perfectly word for word…
 
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Can someone please point me to a website that show’s Philo’s account of how the Septuagint text came about?

I just wanted to confirm what I heard regarding 70 or 72 trusted Jewish scholars privately in each cell translated the Old Testament from Hebrew to Greek and they miraculously found they matched perfectly word for word…
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The tradition of the seventy Jewish scholars comes from the Letter of Aristeas.
 
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