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Understanding the Bible - EasyBlog - BDS Translation
Imagine the Bible remained in its original languages to which it is believed to have been written such as the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. How the so called word of God would penetrate and impacted the lives of people who do not either speak or understand the said languages?
It is strongly believed that the first human author to write down the biblical record was Moses. He was commanded by God to take on this task as in Exodus 34:27 states God's words to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel." So what language did Moses use? He wrote in his native language, called Hebrew. Almost the entire Old Testament is believed to have been written in Hebrew except the few chapters in the prophecies of Ezra and Daniel and one verse in Jeremiah were written in a language called Aramaic. (Dan. 2:4 -7: 28; Ezra 4: 8 - 6 18, and 7:12—26, Jeremiah. 10: 11)
The New Testament, however, was written in Greek. So the New Testament authors wrote in Greek. For many years some scholars laughed the Greek of the New Testament because many of its words looked strange to the readers of the great Greek classical authors such as Plato and Aristotle. But later many records were uncovered of ordinary people, and amazingly there were the same common terms used in everyday speech. Today over 7000 translated copies exist of all the Bible and they agree in 98% of the original text.
Great, now the word of God is available and can be understood and spoken throughout the Globe! This is all through translation, By way of translation, the revelation of God is now available in over 3000 other languages.
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