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To: af_vet_1981; BlueDragon; Elsie; boatbums
That is somwhat of a red herring against the Jews and their English translation of the Bible by pointing to some other verse's translation. I was not discussing Job, but rather the Hebrew in a particular verse in Genesis which both I and the Jewish link correctly translated as "the woman" Do you have a valid argument against the Hebrew text at the source or the translation of the phrase about which I inquired ?

What is it with some who see antisemitism in every closest? Are we going to see Luther dragged in this next? This was not at all a red herring, your issue pertained to accuracy, and thus in my endeavor to be so I did not at all attack or impugn Jews , whom i defend as beloved for the father's sake and look forward to their conversion, but instead i gave authority to the Hebrew text over an English translation from your source , that, as was shown you , was not accurate word for word, and was "based on the electronic text (c) by Larry Nelson (P.O. Box 1681, Cathedral City, CA 92234 USA, nelsonlarry@juno.com) as found on the Internet in differing copies."

I was not discussing Job..

Did you read what i wrote or have you forgotten? I do not read Hebrew and your source does not show what all the Hebrew words mean, except per verse and if the English was word for word accurate. To see if it was, and before i found my source, i chose a text that i knew had many supplied words, which is Job 34:10, which showed me (and thus you) that the English translation of your source was not a precise word for word translation. I then found a more and helpful accurate source , which, as i showed, confirmed what you said, that the "the" was in the Hebrew.

In both sources the Hebrew text was the same as far as i know, but as also said, my source provides pop up texts for the meaning of each Hebrew word, plus the English shows the supplied words, which were not distinguished in yours.

but rather the Hebrew in a particular verse in Genesis which both I and the Jewish link correctly translated as "the woman" Do you have a valid argument against the Hebrew text at the source or the translation of the phrase about which I inquired ?

The ethnicity of the web master had nothing to do with my choices, so please refrain from your "against the Jews" charge. A devout Jew would prioritize accuracy, which i did here. Talk about a red herring!

598 posted on 01/13/2017 2:07:12 PM PST by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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To: daniel1212
My source was Mechon Mamre, which you object to for some reason even though the English translation for a different passage you objected to is the same translation as the King James Version.

Had you simply wrote you preferred a different source but mine was also accurate for the text in question, instead of writing that Mechon Mamre "can easily mislead those who cannot read Hebrew from thinking certain word[s] are in the Hebrew which are not." I would not have defended Mechon Mamre's academic integrity in this regard. The source did nothing wrong with the text in question, in Hebrew or in English.

I no where introduced "antisemitism" into this defense. "The Jews and their English translation of the Bible" refers to Mechon Mamre, which is an Orthodox group centered in Jerusalem with a convenient online version of the Hebrew Bible: fast, convenient, and free. However, the English translation is going to differ in some messianic passages, which is generally so with Jewish Bibles in English (Isaac Leeser, for example). I do not defend those English translations and they tend to be well known areas of disagreement (Isaiah for example).
602 posted on 01/13/2017 2:53:05 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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