‘R. Judah said: When our teachers permitted Greek, they permitted it only for a scroll of the Torah’.[SIZE=-1]1[/SIZE] This was on account of the incident related in connection with King Ptolemy,[SIZE=-1]2[/SIZE] as it has been taught: ‘It is related of King Ptolemy that he brought together seventy-two elders and placed them in seventy-two [separate] rooms, without telling them why he had brought them together, and he went in to each one of them and said to him, Translate[SIZE=-1]3[/SIZE] for me the Torah of Moses your master.[SIZE=-1]4[/SIZE] G-d then prompted each one of them and they all conceived the same idea and wrote for him, G-d created in the beginning,[SIZE=-1]5[/SIZE] I shall make man in image and likeness,[SIZE=-1]6[/SIZE] And he finished on the sixth day,and rested on the seventh day,[SIZE=-1]7[/SIZE] Male and female he created him [SIZE=-1]8[/SIZE] [but they did not write ‘created them’],[SIZE=-1]9[/SIZE] Come let me descend and confound their tongues,[SIZE=-1]10[/SIZE] And Sarah laughed among her relatives;[SIZE=-1]11[/SIZE] For in their anger they slew an ox and in their wrath they digged up a stall;[SIZE=-1]12[/SIZE] And Moses took his wife and his children, and made them ride on a carrier of men;[SIZE=-1]13[/SIZE]And the abode of the children of Israel which they stayed in Egypt and in other lands was four hundred years,[SIZE=-1]14[/SIZE] And he sent the elect of the children of Israel;[SIZE=-1]15[/SIZE] And against the elect of the children of Israel he put not forth his and;
