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NASB | Deuteronomy 5:11 ¶ 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Deuteronomy 5:11 ¶ 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain [that is, irreverently, in false affirmations or in ways that impugn the character of God]; for the LORD will not hold guiltless nor leave unpunished the one who takes His name in vain [disregarding its reverence and its power]. |
Bible Question:
Why did the New American Standard Translation change Jehovah (Strong's number 3068)to Lord which has the same Strong's number? A Jehovah's Witness came to my door and later showed me her copy of the Revised Standard version in which case the Strong's number 3068 was always rendered Jehovah in English. She then showed me in my copy of the New American Standard Version where the Lockman foundation chaged Jehovah to Lord more than 6,000 times. She then stated, "The odacity of them to render God's Holy name as a title!" I could not answer her because I do not know why the Lockman Foundation chose to do that. Secondly, is it really the big deal she is making it out to be? I promised her I would come to the Lockman's web site or try to contact them to get an answer. Can anyone help me or direct me to the place where this question has already been answered? Thanks in advance to anyone who spends time to help me. May God Bless you. |
Bible Answer: Read the introduction to your NASB. It explains that we really don't know how to pronounce that name for God, because the Hebrews quit pronouncing it themselves. So many people write the NAME as LORD (all caps.) The complication comes due (what seems to me) to be an oddity of the Hebrew language. Strictly speaking most speakers of Hebrew (past and present) do not write their language with the vowels. So when it comes to pronouncing you have to "know" were they belong. In the Hebrew text preserved by the Jews, they wrote the vowel markings in (the jots and tiddles), but with the NAME, they left them off, so no one would accidentally prounounce the holy name of God. It was a strange tradition, with no biblical foundation, but that's the way it is. So the JW's don't know any more than you on this subject. And most modern language scholars long ago forsook the Jehovah way of writing the NAME. |
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