Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

Marjorie,

The New World Translation renders Genesis 1:5 as: "And God began  
calling the light Day, but the darkness he called Night." To be  
faithful to the Hebrew I would translate it as: "Then He called, God,  
to the light Day, and to the darkness called Night."  There is a  
personal pronoun (YI) squeezed after the VA of VAYIKRA, 'then he  
called', but none preceding the second KARA, 'called'. Of course, in  
order to avoid a too atrocious English I am using "called" where the  
Hebrew has "call" only.

The KJV has Genesis 1:5 as: "And God called the light Day, and the  
darkness he called Night."

Isaac Fried, Boston University


On Mar 19, 2007, at 9:31 PM, MarjorieAlley AT cs.com wrote:

> New World Translation