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- The earliest Coptic translations of the Old Testament originated when Christian missionaries extended into rural Egypt and needed to translate the Bible into the Egyptian language for local populations who did not speak Greek. - By the late 3rd century, the Gospels had been translated to Coptic, suggesting the Old Testament was also translated. The oldest surviving manuscript is a Coptic translation of Proverbs from the late 3rd century. - In the 4th century, translations expanded and the Old Testament w

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