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Much like the case with the King James Version in English, the Reina Valera has a number of devotees who believe that it is a superiorly authentic translation in the Spanish language, or, more broadly, that the Reina Valera especially the 1960 revision is to be preferred over all other Spanish translations of Scripture or even later subsequent ...
Their acceptance, however, is limited and their use in liturgy avoided due to claims of inaccurate translations in key passages for Catholics like Luke 1:26-38, 40–45; John 20:22-23; 21:15-17. In 2010 the Conference of Spanish Bishops published an official version of the Holy Bible in Spanish for liturgical and catechetical use.
The phrase "image of God" is found in three passages in the Hebrew Bible, all in the Book of Genesis 1–11: . And God said: 'Let us make man in our image/b'tsalmeinu, after our likeness/kid'muteinu; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'
27 All in all, says (the) Preacher, that is the conclusion of my inquiry. 28 I have searched with heart and soul, but still have found nothing. Of a thousand people, I found merely one who was truly a person, but it was no woman. 29 All I have found is this: the human is a simple creature.
Rabbi Simlai replied that wherever one finds a point apparently supporting the heretics, one finds the refutation nearby in the text. Thus Genesis 1:26 says, "Let us make man" (using the plural pronoun), but then Genesis 1:27 says, "And God created" (using the singular pronoun).
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Genesis 36:9–37:1 Toledot of Esau "the father of the Edomites" (genealogy) Genesis 37:2–50:26 Toledot of Jacob ( Joseph narrative) It is not clear, however, what this meant to the original authors, and most modern commentators divide it into two parts based on the subject matter, a primeval history (chapters 1–11) and a patriarchal ...
In Genesis 27–28, Jacob receives three blessings: (1) by Isaac when Jacob is disguised as Esau in Genesis 27:28–29, (2) by Isaac when Jacob is departing for Haran in Genesis 28:3–4, and (3) by God in Jacob's dream at Bethel in Genesis 28:13–15. Whereas the first blessing is one of material wellbeing and dominance, only the second and ...