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NIV's "pledged to be married"
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Feminists also object to 1 Tim 2:12 ("I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent."), but the original Greek is so clear that not much can be done to distort it.  Only the most most liberal translations, as in injecting plural forms of "woman" and "man", and also twisting the second half to read "listen quietly."
 
Feminists also object to 1 Tim 2:12 ("I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent."), but the original Greek is so clear that not much can be done to distort it.  Only the most most liberal translations, as in injecting plural forms of "woman" and "man", and also twisting the second half to read "listen quietly."
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== Marriage ==
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Feminists are often critical of traditional marriage, and the NIV translation uses the potentially demeaning term to "pledged" rather than "engaged" to describe planned marriages in the Bible.  (The term "pledged" connotes a thing or a slave rather than a dignified person.)  The NIV says, for example, that Mary was "pledged to be married" rather than "engaged to be married."<ref>See Matthew 1:18, Luke 1:27 and 2:5.</ref>
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There are about ten references to the NIV (1984) to "pledged" to be married rather than "engaged" to be married.  The 2010 translation to the NIV then added yet another:
    
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