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“Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”

“If God gives His word to people today in numerous languages, would he not have also given it to the people in those days in numerous languages? And if not, why not?”

Do you not err because you do not know the scriptures?

The Bible was written by many different men over several centuries. It was not even complete during those days in which God drove out the inhabitants of Canaan. Very little was written by the time Joshua led Israel into that land.

There were centuries in which God revealed Himself in other ways, before there was any written Word at all. We have an acknowledgment about men like Enoch and Melchizedek, who both lived long before Moses wrote the Pentateuch. Job treasured God’s Word, even though none of the Bible had been written at that time.

God divided the languages in Babel to stop the rebellion and the anti-Christ system. See Genesis 11.

He did the opposite at Pentecost with the gift of tongues that broke down the language barriers to spread the Gospel. The pattern there was revelation to everyone in their own native language. He commanded the disciples to go into all of the world and preach the Gospel. See Luke 24, and Acts 2.

God is unchanging, but He has progressively revealed Himself down through history so that we now have a greater understanding of who He is. Even the prophets did not understand exactly God’s plan of redemption, and He has given us today more than they had.

Hebrews 1:1-3 (KJV)
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

[For those unfamiliar with the archaic language of this text, the terms “sundry” and “divers” mean “various” and “diverse.”]

1 Peter 1:10-11 (KJV)
Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

[Enquired means inquired, in the vernacular.]

There were times in history when God’s Word was scarce.

2 Kings 22:8, 10, 11 (KJV)
And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it...
And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.

[”Rent” his clothes meant he tore them. He did not lend them out for money.]

1 Samuel 3:1 (KJV)
And the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision.

Amos 8:11 (KJV)
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.

But God promised a day would come when the Word of God would be abundant and all would know Him.

Hebrews 8:11 (KJV)
And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

[Neighbour is neighbor in modern English spelling.]

God does not change. His Word does not change. But people and languages do. So God has provided His Word in modern languages and dialects so that people can know Him, the unchanging God.

A growing knowledge of the Lord is consistent with His unchanging nature. Therefore, you greatly err.