"1560 Geneva Bible Deuteronomy 7"

And for those of you who are not my regular viewers for the Geneva Bible readings, this is the Puritans Bible, the Shakespeare's Bible, the Founders Bible, a complete completely different Bible than the King James Bible which came later which is official right it was commissioned by the crown and beautiful right but not 100 accurate whereas this translation made under duress by Protestant reformers who had fled England for Geneva when they could have been martyred for being Protestant reformers, they wanted to create from the Hebrew such a perfectly accurate translation into the English that every plow boy, as they put it, could hear and understand the word of God.

And it really is the most accurate English translation in addition to Chabad's, right, that I've read.

And again, those of you who follow along know this, but those of you who are new, may not know what we're finding as we go through reading this 1560 English version and then looking at the Masoretic Hebrew text on Chabad's website and then comparing that to the Revised Standard Version, which is a modern English translation, is that the modern translations are terrible and mistranslate again and again and again, such that some things are not even recognizable.

And very briefly, the thing that the modern translations, certainly this one RSV does over and over, is that they will mistranslate God, God's personality, into being much scarier and weirder and more difficult to understand, more distant, more punitive than he is in the original, where he's quite relatable and human and emotionally understandable and close to us and loving.

And the other thing that the Revised Standard Version does constantly is overstates the theological language, like overstates the role of the church and the priesthood and the ritual when it just isn't there at all.

All right.

Chapter 7, Deuteronomy, and you can go to archive.org for the Geneva Bible 1560, or you can order a physical Geneva Bible.

And this sub-headline, as you recall, is the editorial commentary.

It's not in the original.

The Israelites may make no covenant with the Gentiles, as you were saying, Juana.

Excuse me, they must destroy the idols.

The election depends on the free love of God.

The experience of the power of God ought to confirm us to avoid all occasion of idolatry.

So that's what the reformers were saying is the essence of this chapter.

And now this is the actual text.

And for those of you who are not my regular viewers for the Geneva Bible readings, this is the Puritans Bible, the Shakespeare's Bible, the Founders Bible, a complete completely different Bible than the King James Bible which came later which is official right it was commissioned by the crown and beautiful right but not 100 accurate whereas this translation made under duress by Protestant reformers who had fled England for Geneva when they could have been martyred for being Protestant reformers, they wanted to create from the Hebrew such a perfectly accurate translation into the English that every plow boy, as they put it, could hear and understand the word of God.

And it really is the most accurate English translation in addition to Chabad's, right, that I've read.

And again, those of you who follow along know this, but those of you who are new, may not know what we're finding as we go through reading this 1560 English version and then looking at the Masoretic Hebrew text on Chabad's website and then comparing that to the Revised Standard Version, which is a modern English translation, is that the modern translations are terrible and mistranslate again and again and again, such that some things are not even recognizable.

And very briefly, the thing that the modern translations, certainly this one RSV does over and over, is that they will mistranslate God, God's personality, into being much scarier and weirder and more difficult to understand, more distant, more punitive than he is in the original, where he's quite relatable and human and emotionally understandable and close to us and loving.

And the other thing that the Revised Standard Version does constantly is overstates the theological language, like overstates the role of the church and the priesthood and the ritual when it just isn't there at all.

All right.

Chapter 7, Deuteronomy, and you can go to archive.org for the Geneva Bible 1560, or you can order a physical Geneva Bible.

And this sub-headline, as you recall, is the editorial commentary.

It's not in the original.

The Israelites may make no covenant with the Gentiles, as you were saying, Juana.

Excuse me, they must destroy the idols.

The election depends on the free love of God.

The experience of the power of God ought to confirm us to avoid all occasion of idolatry.

So that's what the reformers were saying is the essence of this chapter.

And now this is the actual text.