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| | |Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? | | |Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? |
| | |"So God let them do as they wished, fulfilling prophecies: 'Nation of Israel, have you sacrificed animals to me during your forty years of wandering the desert?'" | | |"So God let them do as they wished, fulfilling prophecies: 'Nation of Israel, have you sacrificed animals to me during your forty years of wandering the desert?'" |
| − | | | + | |A bit awkward. Translations which make it easily understood typically have to reword it. |
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| | |Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen. | | |Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen. |
| − | | | + | |"Our ancestors had a temple of faith in that desert, as God had told Moses to do, according to his building directions." |
| − | | | + | |"fashion" no longer has the meaning of design. |
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| | |Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David; | | |Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David; |
| − | | | + | |"Then our forefathers gave it up to the gentiles along with Jesus, and God threw them out in front of our forefathers, and it's been here sine the time of David," |
| − | | | + | |A bit awkward. Improvement? |
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| | |Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. | | |Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. |
| − | | | + | |"Who was blessed by God and wanted to find a temple for the God of Jacob." |
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