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HCSB - Bible Translation: Navigating the Horizons in Bible Translations is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Genesis 3:1 the serpent asked the woman, "Did God really say, 'You can't eat from any tree in the garden'?" What has God really said? Before we can obey Him, we must know what He has said. The Psalmist prayed twice in his affliction, "Give me life through Your word" (Ps 119:25, 107). When Jesus was afflicted by the Devil in the wilderness (Mt 4:1-11), He defended Himself with the sword of the...

First, do the English words do well at representing the meaning of the Hebrew and Greek originals? This aspect of accuracy is a function of the translation theory and is therefore not dependent on whether the version is a revision or a translation.10 The second aspect of accuracy has to do with avoiding a rendering that is simply wrong. There are two ways that a wrong translation might find its way into a published Bible: an old error can be carried over from version to version, or a new error can