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Understanding the Different Translations of the BibleI.
Some Facts About The Bible:
A.
The Bible is actually 66 different books written by 40 different authors over approximately 1600 years
B.
The oldest book of the Bible is the book of Genesis written over 3000 years ago
C.
The book of Revelation was written approximately about 100 AD.(A.D. is taken from the Latin words “anno Domini”, used to indicate a date followingthe birth of Christ)
II.
Even thought the bible was written by so many over so long of a period, there is truly onlyone author.
A.
That author is the Holy Spirit.
1.
See
2Tim. 3:16 “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable forteaching, for reproof, for correction, for training inrighteousness;”
a.
“Inspired” : God breathed; divine inspiration
2.
2Pe 1:20-21 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scriptureis of any private interpretation. (21) For the prophecy came not inold time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake
as
 
theywere
moved by the Holy Ghost.
3.
This is why the bible does not contradict itself, it has but one author
III.
The first 5 books of the Bible were written by Moses and are called the Torah or thePentateuch
1.
These books were written as a direct result of God speaking to Moses about Creation;the Tower of Babel; The Great Flood; Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ect.
2.
The bible says that God spoke to Moses different than any other Prophet, face to face
a.Exo 33:11 “Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend.”
B.
The first Scripture was actually physically written by God himself.
1.
The 10 Commandments. Written by the finger of God.
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Understanding the Different Translations of the Bible
a.
Exo 31:18And when He had finished speaking with him uponMount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony,tablets of stone, written by the finger of God.
2.
After that copies of Scripture would have been written and copied on animal skinsand rolled up like scrolls since paper had not yet been invented.
3.
Until the invention of Papyri which was plant stalks pounded together into a flat paper like material
C.
 When the entire Pentateuch is present on a scroll, it is called a “Torah”.
1.
 An entire Torah Scroll, if completely unraveled, is over 150 feet long!
2.
 As most sheep are only about two to three feet long, it took an entire flock of sheep to make just one Torah scroll.
3.
The Jewish scribes who painstakingly produced each scroll wereperfectionists.
4.
If they made even the slightest mistake in copying, such as allowing twoletters of a word to touch, they destroyed that entire panel (the last three orfour columns of text), and the panel before it, because it had touched thepanel with a mistake!
5.
It demonstrates the level of faithfulness to accuracy applied to thepreservation of God’s Word throughout the first couple of thousand years of Biblical transmission.
D.
The Jewish People were called by God to keep the Scriptures pure and preservedfro generation to generation
 
1.
Rom 3:1-2 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? (2) Great in every respect. First of all,that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
IV.
The Bible was not originally written in English
A.
It actually was written in Hebrew and Greek; 2 very different languages;
1.
Old Testament was Hebrew; Hebrew is read from right to left
2.
The New Testament was written in Greek 
3.
The reason was because the drastic difference in time between the Old and NewTestaments and the changes in cultures
B.
There are people today who mistakenly believe that Jesus and The Apostles actuallyspoke in King James English
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Understanding the Different Translations of the BibleV.
By 500 BC. We have the completion of All Original Hebrew Manuscripts whichmake up The 39 Books of the Old Testament.
A.
200 BC: Completion of the Septuagint Greek Manuscripts which contain The 39Old Testament Books
VI.
Alexander the Great who lived between 356 – 323 B.C. conquered the known world andforced them to learn and speak the Greek language and culture in order to unite the worldand create a one world monarchy.
A.
When Christ’s ministry appeared the most common language of the day was Greek andAramaic.
B.
Jesus therefore spoke both Greek and being from an orthodox Jewish home would havealso spoke Hebrew. However most of his public ministry would have been done inGreek and Aramaic, the common languages of the day.
C.
In Jesus day many of the Jews didn’t even speak Hebrew and were looked down upon by those who did. They called them Hellenistic Jews.
D.
In the days of the early church only a limited number of Jewish people actually spokeHebrew and then only to each other.
E.
Jesus adapted his ministry to meet the largest range of people for the day.
F.
Hebrew is read from right to left
VII.
There are today numerous translations of the Bible available in English. Each of thesetranslations varies in some degree from the others, but for the most part are very similar toeach other in more ways than they differ.
A.
For many years the only copies of the Bible were in Greek and Hebrew, and later weretranslated into Latin.
B.
This being said, it was not readable by the average person and so much of what wasrelied upon to be believed was dependent upon what was told them by the Churchclergy.
1.
Almost like it had some sort of mystical spiritual power and was never to be read or interpreted by the average man.
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