I am on a one-year Bible reading schedule. I am using the one from United Church of God. I am reading my Halleluyah Scriptures Complete Edition and they have the King James Version online. This comes in handy because the Halleluyah Scriptures has words that I don't know the meaning to, so I'm able to go to the King James Version to look up the word.
For example, the Halleluyah Scriptures will replace some English words with transliterations of Hebrew words because of alleged pagan origins of the English words. Baruk replaces bless. Hai replaces life. Qodesh replaces Holy. Shamayim replaces Heaven. Kohen replaces Priest. etc. It's a nice way to learn some Hebrew.
Because the regular edition of Halleluyah Scriptures is so popular in the Torah community, I feel it is good for me to get to know this version as best I can.
“Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth,” Let Israel now say— “Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth; Yet they have not prevailed against me. The plowers plowed on my back; They made their furrows long.”
The Lord (Yahuwah) is righteous; He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked. Let all those who hate Zion Be put to shame and turned back.
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up, With which the reaper does not fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his arms. Neither let those who pass by them say, “The blessing of the Lord be upon you; We bless you in the name of the Lord!”
Psalms 129:1-8 NKJV
The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of YHWH your God.
You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Exodus 23:19
Three times in Torah, seething a kid in its mother’s milk is forbidden in connection with a firstfruits offering. One reason might be in Isaiah 66:3, which equates an unworthy offering with pagan modes of sacrifice, such as pig’s blood and dogs. In other words, even in the least forms of offerings, don’t compromise with pagan religious practices, and don’t mix your offering with resentment or unfaithfulness.
A goat is a clean animal and a valid option for sacrifice. There’s nothing unclean about milk, nor explicitly forbidden about mixing meat and milk. The connection to firstfruits offering, the literary structure of the passage, and the thematic connection to Isaiah 66 all point to this being a reference to a pagan religious practice, probably considered one of the “least” and least offensive of all their sacrifices.
Rhy Bezuidenhout
It does become a muddled language though and we can put new believers off when someone preaches in such a mixed language. Think tower of Babel...
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Mark Price
I've discovered a glossary at the back of my Scriptures which is a great help in knowing the meaning of the Hebrew words they use to replace alleged pagan English words.
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