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  • From: "Bill Ross" <wross AT farmerstel.com>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Bible translations
  • Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 18:08:30 -0600


{Peter}
Interesting to hear about these deliberately literal translations.

Can I ask one question about how literal they really are? I have a
test for those who insist on literal translations. How do their
translations render )EREK )APPAYIM in Exodus 34:6 etc? Do they say
that YHWH has a long nose, "length of nostrils" or something like
that? I have never heard of an English translation which does so and
so is truly and consistently literal.

{Bill}
This is Young's Exodus 34:6:

YLT
and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: `Jehovah, Jehovah
God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and
truth,





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