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September 21, 2026
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{{Bibleref|Philippians|1|27}} |The translation begins with "Only," with the comma, which is bizarre syntax that confuses the meaning of the sentence. The original Greek did not have any punctuation (or spacing between words), and there's no justification for inserting a comma there that most translations do not insert.
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September 6, 2026
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→Outdated or Awkward Translations: even better
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→Outdated or Awkward Translations: Matthew 18:20
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→Outdated or Awkward Translations: {{bibleref|Matthew|5|40}} | The translation as "go to law" should be "go to court"
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May 25, 2024
makes this mistake twice
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The NAB refers to a child as an "it" in the Gospel of Mark: "Taking a child he placed it in their midst, and putting his arms around it he said to them."
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June 20, 2021
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Its translation of Matthew 6:34 is better than most, by using the word "evil" rather than "trouble": "Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil."
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→Outdated or Awkward Translations: Ephesians 4:17 |The translation mentions the "futility of their minds," when it should be "futility of their thinking."
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→Outdated or Awkward Translations: Exodus 16:14 |The translation uses the bizarre term "hoarfrost" to describe the manna from heaven: "and when the dew evaporated, there on the surface of the desert were fine flakes like hoarfrost on the ground."
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→Outdated or Awkward Translations: Luke
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→Outdated or Awkward Translations: Mark
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→Outdated or Awkward Translations: Matthew
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→Outdated or Awkward Translations: links to CBP
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→Outdated or Awkward Translations: put things into table, OT done
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→Outdated or Awkward Translations: Matthew, Mark , Luke, John
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→Outdated or Awkward Translations: starting to get things in canonical order - OT < NT
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February 15, 2015
July 27, 2014
Some of the phrasing in the New American Bible is extraordinarily good, such as its rendition of Luke 9:62 ("No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the kingdom
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→Outdated or Awkward Translations: Matthew 13:46: But "price" should obviously be translated as "value", or else he would gain no benefit from the transaction.
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→Outdated or Awkward Translations: correction: Luke 14:26
Its translation of Luke 14:25 urges the incorrect "hate" with respect to other family members, rather than the truer meaning of wrongly putting someone else's interest
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March 4, 2012
→Outdated or Awkward Translations
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→Outdated or Awkward Translations: Also in the passage about the transfiguration of Jesus, this translation uses the archaic phrase "he charged them," rather than "He asked them" or "He told them"
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