meaning because they change what the Bible said.”6 In the example cited above, it is impossible for a reader to assess whether the proposed interpretations that God “protects” and “blesses” the speaker are right or wrong because what the passage says (the imagery of hemming in and placing a hand over) has been removed from sight. The only reliable curb on the tendency of dynamic equivalence to multiple contradictory interpretations is to render the words of the original and not abandon them for