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== Outdated or Awkward Translations ==
 
== Outdated or Awkward Translations ==
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The New American Bible has a high percentage of outdated or awkward translations in key passages, including the following examples below.
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The New American Bible has a high percentage of outdated or awkward translations in key passages, including the following examples below. Note that each of these is a particularly important passage
    
*The translation of Luke 2:1-5 (the census at the time of the birth of [[Jesus]]) by the New American Bible uses the word "enrollment" instead of "census", and uses the word "enrolled" in instead of "registered"; these terms are unfamiliar to most young people who think that enrollment refers to school and do not connect the terms with a census:<ref>http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/luke/luke2.htm</ref>
 
*The translation of Luke 2:1-5 (the census at the time of the birth of [[Jesus]]) by the New American Bible uses the word "enrollment" instead of "census", and uses the word "enrolled" in instead of "registered"; these terms are unfamiliar to most young people who think that enrollment refers to school and do not connect the terms with a census:<ref>http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/luke/luke2.htm</ref>
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:: "Amen, Amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it '''produces much fruit'''."
 
:: "Amen, Amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it '''produces much fruit'''."
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*The translation of Mark 16:6 of the angel's first communication to the holy women at the empty tomb of Jesus after the [[Resurrection]] is "do not be '''''amazed'''''," rather than "do not be '''''alarmed'''''" as translated by the Revised English Bible and New Revised Standard Version:
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::[The angel] said to them, "Do not be amazed!  You seek Jesus of Nazareth, the crucified.  He has been raised; he is not here.  Behold, the place where they had laid him."
    
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