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Religiously speaking... why did God?

dictate the Bible in Elizabethan English?

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  • Zvi
    Lv 7
    6 years ago
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    You're kidding. Right? Please be kidding.

    In the unlikely change that you're serious, the King James Version of the Bible (which I assume is what you mean) is only one of several translations, and is most certainly not dictated by G-d. In fact, the KJV has several obvious translation errors.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    The Bible was written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek.

    It was translated into English and the KJV uses outdated English which is very hard to understand. I prefer the NWT which is easy to understand and some scholars say it is also the most accurate.

    Read the book Truth In Translation by Jason Beduhn.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    >The original Hebrew bible (Torah) was first translated into ancient Greek, then into Latin

    Wrong.

    But going back to the OP, many xtians refuse to admit that there was any version before the KJV or will swear blind that the KJV is the "most accurate" version. It is not and whoever thinks it is indulges in cultural racism.

  • 6 years ago

    The original Hebrew bible (Torah) was first translated into ancient Greek, then into Latin, then into German, then into English.

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  • 6 years ago

    god told his apostles to write his word down. they did write it down in the common greek before 100AD

    the english translation of the greek test came 1520 years later

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