Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, . . . Joshua 7:2a NASB To – You wouldn’t think that such a small letter attached to the city name Ai would cause any interest or concern. It obviously didn’t bother the translators of the NASB (or any…
And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Genesis 1:31b NASB The – Other than the fact that Robert Alter’s translation of this verse changes “there was” to “it was,” is there anything really significantly different? To answer that question, we need to read “Introduction to the Five Books” in his translation…
“Moses My servant is dead; so now arise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel.” Joshua 1:2 NASB This – There’s something very odd hidden in this verse, something you will never see in translation. The two nouns, “Jordan” and “people” have…
So Naomi returned, and with her Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, who returned from the land of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest. Ruth 1:22 NASB Who returned – What are we to make of the unusual Hebrew construction in this verse? What usually happens in translation is a…
