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Interpolation and Explanation
Both low and high, rich and poor together. Psalm 49:2 NASB Both – By now you realize that translations are often interpretations rather than textual communication. Remember Robert Alters’ warning: “ . . . modern English versions, impelled by the misconception that modern readers cannot make sense of parataxis and that everything in the biblical text…
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Everyman’s Song
Hear this, all peoples; Listen, all inhabitants of the world, Psalm 49:1 (English) NASB All inhabitants – The Bible might have been written for God’s chosen people, Israel, but, fortunately, it also contains crucial lessons for everyone else. We don’t have to be Jewish to learn what God wants us to know. We just have to…
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Dead Men Talking
For the music director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.Psalm 49:1 (no number in English) NASB Korah – It is a dark day for the tribes. Korah challenges Moses. “You have gone far enough! For all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is in their midst; so why do you exalt yourselves…
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With Footnotes
When a man or woman commits any of the sins of mankind, acting unfaithfully against the Lord, and that person is guilty, then [a]he shall confess [b]his sin which [c]he has committed, and he shall make restitution in full for his wrong and add to it a fifth of it, and give it to him whom he has wronged. Numbers 5:6-7 Confess – Did…
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Reminders
To know wisdom and instruction, to discern the sayings of understanding, Proverbs 1:2 NASB Sayings – The Hebrew word translated “sayings” comes from the root ʾāmar, a verb that has a very big umbrella of meanings. To say, speak, say to oneself, think, intend, command, promise also creates the derivatives of speech, word, utterance, command, and, in…
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Repent
And Judah acknowledged that the deed which he had done was evil, for he had lain with his daughter-in-law, and he esteemed it hateful in his eyes, and he acknowledged that he had transgressed and gone astray, for he had uncovered the skirt of his son, and he began to lament and to supplicate before…
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Howard Beale
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 1 Peter 1:3 NASB Born again – What was the name of the movie where the newscaster stands in the window of…
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Becoming Human
Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness;” Genesis 1:26a NASB Mankind – A famously misunderstood verse! ʾādām in this English translation is rendered “mankind,” assuring that the reader will understand it as “everyone of the species.” Adapted from the paradigm of Greek philosophy, this verse appears to claim that all…
