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Genesis 26:8
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RE: Genesis 26:8
December 24, 2018 at 8:14 am
(December 24, 2018 at 3:26 am)Grandizer Wrote: Let's be honest here, the Good News isn't what you would call a reliable translation. It's pretty clear they paraphrase rather than translate.

Interestingly, when I was in Catholic grade school (early 1960's) I had to study a bowdlerized version of The St. Jerome Bible. Scenes like that were toned down considerably or entirely missing. For instance, the scene in which Lot slept with his daughters and got them pregnant had been expunged.
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Genesis 26:8

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Genesis 26:8 - by Fake Messiah - December 2, 2018 at 6:13 am
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by ignoramus - December 2, 2018 at 6:22 am
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 2, 2018 at 6:22 am
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by Cherub786 - December 2, 2018 at 6:54 am
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by tackattack - December 2, 2018 at 12:33 pm
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by Cherub786 - December 2, 2018 at 1:38 pm
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by brewer - December 2, 2018 at 3:56 pm
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by Minimalist - December 2, 2018 at 12:45 pm
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by no one - December 2, 2018 at 1:32 pm
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by tackattack - December 2, 2018 at 2:53 pm
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by Cherub786 - December 2, 2018 at 2:55 pm
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by Godscreated - December 24, 2018 at 12:59 am
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by Fake Messiah - December 24, 2018 at 2:30 am
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by Belacqua - December 24, 2018 at 2:35 am
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by Fake Messiah - December 24, 2018 at 3:06 am
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by Belacqua - December 24, 2018 at 8:07 am
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by Grandizer - December 24, 2018 at 3:26 am
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by Gwaithmir - December 24, 2018 at 8:14 am
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by Drich - January 8, 2019 at 11:56 am
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by Abaddon_ire - January 8, 2019 at 6:00 pm
RE: Genesis 26:8 - by Drich - January 22, 2019 at 1:20 pm

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