The first “commentaries” I look at when studying a Bible passage are all the good English translations of the Bible with which the Christian church has been blessed. American Christians like to champion whichever translation they consider to be the “best,” but I learned a long time ago that the ESV, NIV, HSCB, NASB, and other standard evangelical translations are complementary, not competitive, tools for Bible study. In my paper-Bible-study days I had a parallel
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