Updated American Standard Version
Giving Bible readers what God said not what translators think God meant
Genesis 22:8 shows that God Himself would provide the Lamb, preserving Hebrew nuance and foreshadowing Christ as the ultimate sacrifice.
Genesis 9:6 establishes capital punishment as God’s mandate, grounded in the image of God and expressed through Hebrew chiastic parallelism.
Genesis 6:4 examines the Nephilim—offspring of angels and women. Were they giants, fallen ones, or hybrids? A textual and translation analysis.
Genesis 6:3’s “120 years” is not a lifespan cap but God’s countdown to the Flood, rooted in Hebrew grammar, context, and divine judgment.
Genesis 6:2’s “sons of God” means angelic beings, not human rulers. Literal translation preserves the inspired sense supported by ancient sources.
Eve’s words in Genesis 4:1 may reveal a mistaken messianic hope, misidentifying Cain as Jehovah, a difficulty often softened in translation.
Deuteronomy 6:4’s "one" (ʾeḥād) affirms God’s unity without forcing theological conclusions. Literal translations preserve this ambiguity; dynamic ones distort it.
Deuteronomy 4:2 warns against altering God’s Word. Rendering "word" (dābār) as "commands" or "instructions" distorts the text's meaning and violates its unity.
Numbers 31:18 preserves a euphemism that conveys moral clarity. Faithful translations retain it; others flatten it with modern interpretations.
"Fiery serpents" in Numbers 21:6 preserves the Hebrew's ambiguity, reflecting both literal and theological dimensions lost in interpretive translations
