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It's never too late to learn. The Septuagint and New Testament were both written in Koine Greek (the every day use of Greek back then around the entire Mediterranean, after the conquests and Hellenization of the area by Alexander the Great), which strongly correlates to modern Greek. It's a still living language, and there are tons of resources, in books and online, to study and learn it. It's helped me a lot in my first read through of the Bible, too, as going back and looking at the original Greek, and analyzing what each word means, helps to understand specific sections I've had trouble with.

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There are quite a few good English translations of the New Testament (except the obvious subversive ones, like the Scofield Bible), but you may have to buy an English translation of the Septuagint (the original Greek Old Testament) separately, until the church pulls its head out of its ass and makes full Bible versions from the original Greek, with a studied and decided upon translation.


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I did some checking, and apparently the Douay-Rheims Bible and the Orthodox Study Bible use the Septuagint for the Old Testament (and not the jewish Masoretic text seen in most Bibles). There are plenty of those you can find and buy online (physical copies). The Douay-Rheims Bible can be difficult to read (ye hold English), which can cause confusion in some sections (at least it did for me). I'm not sure how easy or hard the Orthodox Study Bible is to read. For the New Testament, I've been enjoying the English Standard Version, but that uses the Masoretic text for the OT, so I'll definitely be using a different source for the OT.


You can also use something like this, which is an English translation of the Septuagint:


https://lexhampress.com/product/188040/the-lexham-english-septuagint-2nd-ed?ssi=0


There are other English translations of the Septuagint as well, with slight variations in words used. To supplement for those variations in translation, you can always refer back to the original Greek, and use online resources to see what each word means, with the various definitions, since there are numerous Greek to English translators, and Greek to English translations of the Bible, like this one for the OT:


https://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/physis/septuagint-genesis/default.asp