Does my Bible follow Pharisee, Rabbinical or Judaism Laws?

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Many may not know that the majority of modern translations follow a Pharisee/Rabbinical/Judaism law going back as far as 310-199 B.C. Nowhere does the Creator of the heavens and earth say to hide His name, but rather to proclaim it. It is purely an invention of Judaism, yet I get called a Judaizer for using His name, when in reality, those who replace YHWH with the Lord/God are actually following Pharisee/Rabbinical/Judaism law. So I would like to show that most translation readily admit to this, and discuss this matter with any interested.

 

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American Standard Version - Preface

"The change first proposed in the Appendix --- that which substitutes "Jehovah" for "LORD" and "GOD" (printed in small capitals) --- is one which will be unwelcome by many, because of the frequency and familiarity of the terms displaced. But the American Revisers, after a careful consideration, were brought to the unanimous conviction that a Jewish superstition, which regarded the Divine Name as too sacred to be uttered, ought no longer to dominate in the English or any other version of the Old Testament, as it fortunately does not in the numerous versions made by modern missionaries.

 

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English Standard Version - Preface

"In the translation of biblical terms referring to God, the ESV takes great care to convey the specific nuances of meaning of the original Hebrew and Greek terms. First, concerning terms that refer to God in the Old Testament: God, the Maker of heaven and earth, introduced himself to the people of Israel with the special, personal name, whose consonants are YHWH (see Exodus 3:14-15). Scholars call this the “Tetragrammaton,” a Greek term referring to the four Hebrew letters YHWH. The exact pronunciation of YHWH is uncertain, because the Jewish people considered the personal name of God to be so holy that it should never be spoken aloud. Instead of reading the word YHWH, they would normally read the Hebrew word adonai (“Lord”), and the ancient translations into Greek, Syriac, and Aramaic also followed suit. When the vowels of the word adonai are placed with the consonants of YHWH, this results in the familiar word Jehovah that was used in some earlier English Bible translations. As is common among English translations today, the ESV usually renders the personal name of God (YHWH) with the word Lord (printed in small capitals). An exception to this is when the Hebrew word adonai appears together with YHWH, in which case the two words are rendered together as “the Lord [in lower case] God [in small capitals].” In contrast to the personal name for God (YHWH), the more general name for God in Old Testament Hebrew is ‘elohim and its related forms of ‘el or ‘eloah, all of which are normally translated “God” (in lower case letters). The use of these different ways to translate the Hebrew words for God is especially beneficial to the English reader, enabling the reader to see and understand the different ways that the personal name and the general name for God are both used to refer to the One True God of the Old Testament."

 

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The English Revised Version - Preface
"It has been thought advisable in regard to the word "JEHOVAH" to follow the usage of the Authorised Version, and not to insert it uniformly in place of "LORD" or "GOD," which when printed in small capitals represent the words substituted by Jewish custom for the ineffable Name according to the vowel points by which it is distinguished. It will be found, therefore, that in this respect the Authorised Version has been departed from only in a few passages, in which the introduction of a proper name seemed to be required."

 

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[FONT=Arial, serif]GOD'S WORD Translation - Preface[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, serif]"GOD'S WORD capitalizes the first letter in proper nouns and sentences and [/FONT][FONT=Arial, serif]all the letters in the word LORD when it represents Yahweh[/FONT][FONT=Arial, serif], the name of God in the Old Testament."[/FONT]

 

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Good News Translation Bible - Preface
"Following an ancient tradition, begun by the first translation of the Hebrew Scriptures (the Septuagint) and followed by the vast majority of English translations, the distinctive Hebrew name for God (usually transliterated Jehovah or Yahweh), is in this translation represented by “LORD.” When Adonai, normally translated “Lord,” is followed by Yahweh, the combination is rendered by the phrase “Sovereign LORD.”

 

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Holman Christian Standard Bible - Preface
"The Tetragrammaton occurs 6,828 times in the Hebrew Bible. Nearly all English versions follow the ancient tradition of rendering the Divine name as “the Lord.” The King James Version makes only four exceptions (Exodus 6:3, Psalm 83:18, Isaiah 12:2, and Isaiah 26:4), where it renders the name as “Jehovah.” The first edition of the HCSB used “Yahweh” seventy-five times, and the 2009 revision increased the number to 476, although the ordinary rendering continues to be “the Lord.” One of the editors of the version has explained why the version uses “Yahweh” in the places where it does: We use it as the rendering of YHWH (which the Hebrew Bible editors first rendered as Adonai, “Lord”) whenever God’s “name” is being given (either explicitly, using the word “name,” or implicitly), when He is being identified (“I am Yahweh”), when He is being contrasted to other gods such as Baal, in certain repeated phrases such as “Yahweh the God of your fathers,” or when YHWH has been rendered by Yahweh in the immediate context. … our objective is to introduce to the contemporary church what is the most likely pronunciation of the divine name YHWH in the Hebrew Bible. We did not render the majority of occurrences of YHWH as Yahweh because our goal is not only to be accurate but to use an English style that is most familiar to people. Since most Christians today probably do not commonly speak of “Yahweh,” but rather of “the Lord,” we felt it would be insensitive to use Yahweh for YHWH in every case and would make the Bible seem too uncomfortable for most people."

 

[mcubed]

The word Jehovah isn’t in the Hebrew language and is NOT a name of G-d.

 

[resurrection33]

Many may not know that the majority of modern translations follow a Pharisee/Rabbinical/Judaism law going back as far as 310-199 B.C. Nowhere does the Creator of the heavens and earth say to hide His name, but rather to proclaim it. It is purely an invention of Judaism, yet I get called a Judaizer for using His name, when in reality, those who replace YHWH with the Lord/God are actually following Pharisee/Rabbinical/Judaism law. So I would like to show that most translation readily admit to this, and discuss this matter with any interested.

I think substituting "Lord/God" for the Lord's name is just their way of showing respect for the Lord. I never called my dad "Bert." I called him "Dad." Perhaps it is unnecessary but I see no reason to criticize them for it.

 

[Hizikyah]

I think substituting "Lord/God" for the Lord's name is just their way of showing respect for the Lord. I never called my dad "Bert." I called him "Dad." Perhaps it is unnecessary but I see no reason to criticize them for it.

Except that the Pharisees originally did it, and they would kill people who spoke the Name, and since when did the Pharisees, who Yahshua/Jesus called serpents, respect the Most Hig?.

This is the last things Yahshua said to them as He marched off the Temple Mount (Bayith YHWH)

Mat 23:39 "for I say to you, from now on you shall by no means see Me, until you say, ‘Blessed is He who is coming in the Name of יהוה !’ ”

Removing His name is a sin (if you say the Law is done away it "was" a sin at that time):

Exodus 20:7, "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain." NASB

The word vain is the Hebrew word shav meaning: emptiness, vanity. Is it possible that removing YHWH's name and replacing it with "the Lord" is making it empty?

Exodus 20:7, ""You shall not take the name of YHWH your God in vain, for YHWH will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain." WEB

Exodus 20:7, "You shall not take the Name of YHWH your strength to bring it to nothing, for YHWH will not hold him guiltless who brings it to nothing."

Psalm 199:55, "We remember Your Name in the night, O YHWH, and we keep Your Law."


7723 - shav
shav: emptiness, vanity - Original Word: שָׁוְא - Part of Speech: Noun Masculine - Transliteration: shav - Phonetic Spelling: (shawv) - Short Definition: vain

7723 - shav
NAS Exhaustive Concordance - Word Origin from an unused word - Definition: emptiness, vanity

7723 - shav
Brown-Driver-Briggs שָׁוְא noun [masculine] emptiness, vanity

7723 - shav
Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)
1) emptiness, vanity, falsehood - 1a) emptiness, nothingness, vanity - 1b) emptiness of speech, lying - 1c) worthlessness (of conduct)

Psalm 22:22, "I will declare Your Name to My brothers! In the midst of the congregation I will give You praise!"

and it was prophesied:

Yeremyah 23:26-27, "How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Yes, they are prophets of the deceit of their own minds; Who devise; plan and scheme, to cause My people to forget My Name through their dreams, which they tell every man to his neighbor, just as their fathers have forgotten My Name for Baal (Lord)."

BAAL (DEITY) [Hebrew - baal] . Canaanite storm and fertility god. The name, which means “lord, ” is an epithet of the god Hadad (lit. “thunderer” ). Well-known from the OT, he is now extremely well-attested in the Ugaritic texts, in addition to being mentioned in other ancient texts. (Freedman, David Noel: The Anchor Bible Dictionary. New York : Doubleday, 1996, c1992, S. 1:546)

BA´AL (ba'al; Heb. baal, “lord, possessor”).
1. A common name for god among the Phoenicians; also the name of their chief male god. See Gods, False.
(Unger, Merrill Frederick ; Harrison, R. K. ; Vos, Howard Frederic ; Barber, Cyril J. ; Unger, Merrill Frederick: The New Unger's Bible Dictionary. Rev. and updated ed. Chicago : Moody Press, 1988)

Baal (Heb. baal) DEITY
The Canaanite storm- and fertility-god. As an epithet for various West Semitic deities, especially Hadad, the name means “lord,” designating a legal state of ownership or social superiority. With the obvious exception of YHWH, Baal is the most significant deity in the OT. (Freedman, David Noel ; Myers, Allen C. ; Beck, Astrid B.: Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, 2000)

BAAL [BAY uhl] (lord, master) — the name of one or more false gods, a place, and two people in the Old Testament:
1. A fertility and nature god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians. Also see Gods, Pagan.
(Youngblood, Ronald F. ; Bruce, F. F. ; Harrison, R. K. ; Thomas Nelson Publishers: Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Dictionary. Nashville : T. Nelson, 1995)

Hosheyah 2:16-17, "And it will be in that day, says YHWH: that you will call Me Ishi; (My Husband), and will no longer call Me Baali; (My Lord). For I will take away the names of Baalim (1168 - Ba'al) out of her mouth, and their names will no longer be called upon!"

 

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Except that the Pharisees originally did it, and they would kill people who spoke the Name, and since when did the Pharisees, who Yahshua/Jesus called serpents, respect the Most Hig?.

This is the last things Yahshua said to them as He marched off the Temple Mount (Bayith YHWH)

Mat 23:39 "for I say to you, from now on you shall by no means see Me, until you say, ‘Blessed is He who is coming in the Name of יהוה !’ ”

Removing His name is a sin (if you say the Law is done away it "was" a sin at that time):

Exodus 20:7, "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain." NASB

The word vain is the Hebrew word shav meaning: emptiness, vanity. Is it possible that removing YHWH's name and replacing it with "the Lord" is making it empty?

Exodus 20:7, ""You shall not take the name of YHWH your God in vain, for YHWH will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain." WEB

Exodus 20:7, "You shall not take the Name of YHWH your strength to bring it to nothing, for YHWH will not hold him guiltless who brings it to nothing."

Psalm 199:55, "We remember Your Name in the night, O YHWH, and we keep Your Law."


7723 - shav
shav: emptiness, vanity - Original Word: שָׁוְא - Part of Speech: Noun Masculine - Transliteration: shav - Phonetic Spelling: (shawv) - Short Definition: vain

7723 - shav
NAS Exhaustive Concordance - Word Origin from an unused word - Definition: emptiness, vanity

7723 - shav
Brown-Driver-Briggs שָׁוְא noun [masculine] emptiness, vanity

7723 - shav
Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)
1) emptiness, vanity, falsehood - 1a) emptiness, nothingness, vanity - 1b) emptiness of speech, lying - 1c) worthlessness (of conduct)

Psalm 22:22, "I will declare Your Name to My brothers! In the midst of the congregation I will give You praise!"

and it was prophesied:

Yeremyah 23:26-27, "How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Yes, they are prophets of the deceit of their own minds; Who devise; plan and scheme, to cause My people to forget My Name through their dreams, which they tell every man to his neighbor, just as their fathers have forgotten My Name for Baal (Lord)."

BAAL (DEITY) [Hebrew - baal] . Canaanite storm and fertility god. The name, which means “lord, ” is an epithet of the god Hadad (lit. “thunderer” ). Well-known from the OT, he is now extremely well-attested in the Ugaritic texts, in addition to being mentioned in other ancient texts. (Freedman, David Noel: The Anchor Bible Dictionary. New York : Doubleday, 1996, c1992, S. 1:546)

BA´AL (ba'al; Heb. baal, “lord, possessor”).
1. A common name for god among the Phoenicians; also the name of their chief male god. See Gods, False.
(Unger, Merrill Frederick ; Harrison, R. K. ; Vos, Howard Frederic ; Barber, Cyril J. ; Unger, Merrill Frederick: The New Unger's Bible Dictionary. Rev. and updated ed. Chicago : Moody Press, 1988)

Baal (Heb. baal) DEITY
The Canaanite storm- and fertility-god. As an epithet for various West Semitic deities, especially Hadad, the name means “lord,” designating a legal state of ownership or social superiority. With the obvious exception of YHWH, Baal is the most significant deity in the OT. (Freedman, David Noel ; Myers, Allen C. ; Beck, Astrid B.: Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, 2000)

BAAL [BAY uhl] (lord, master) — the name of one or more false gods, a place, and two people in the Old Testament:
1. A fertility and nature god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians. Also see Gods, Pagan.
(Youngblood, Ronald F. ; Bruce, F. F. ; Harrison, R. K. ; Thomas Nelson Publishers: Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Dictionary. Nashville : T. Nelson, 1995)

Hosheyah 2:16-17, "And it will be in that day, says YHWH: that you will call Me Ishi; (My Husband), and will no longer call Me Baali; (My Lord). For I will take away the names of Baalim (1168 - Ba'al) out of her mouth, and their names will no longer be called upon!"

I don't think it matters who first started doing it. If their intention was to show the Lord respect, that isn't all bad. I think I would feel uncomfortable calling the Lord by his name rather than "Lord" or "Father."

 

[Hizikyah]

Zephanyah 3:9, "Yes, at that time I will return to the peoples a pure language, so that all of them may call on the Name of YHWH, and serve Him with one accord."

 

[Yonah]

for me it was a matter of asking myself this question: do i address him by His name as we are told to do many places in biblical text.... or do I do as most do and ignore it?
and would I want my name in the lambs book of life or a title?

 

[Hizikyah]

for me it was a matter of asking myself this question: do i address him by His name as we are told to do many places in biblical text.... or do I do as most do and ignore it?
and would I want my name in the lambs book of life or a title?

Isayah 52:6, "Therefore My people will know My Name; Therefore they will know in that day that I am He Who speaks. Behold, it is I!"

Isayah 42:8, "I am YHWH, that is MY NAME; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images."

Psalm 5:11, "But let all those who trust in You rejoice! Let them ever shout for joy, because of Your protection of them! Let those who love Your Name, YHWH, be joyful in You!"

 

[Hizikyah]

I don't think it matters who first started doing it. If their intention was to show the Lord respect, that isn't all bad. I think I would feel uncomfortable calling the Lord by his name rather than "Lord" or "Father."

Ok here it is from the "horses mouth"

Talmud - Mas. Yoma 39b
His brethren [that year] the priests forbore to mention the Ineffable Name (YHWH) in pronouncing the [priestly] blessing.4 Our Rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple the lot [‘For the Lord’] did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-coloured strap become white/"

YHWH said:

Numbers 6:23-27, "Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying; This is how you are to bless the children of Israyl. Say to them; YHWH BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU. YHWH MAKE HIS FACE SHINE UPON YOU AND BE MERCIFUL TO YOU. YHWH LIFT UP HIS COUNTENANCE UPON YOU, AND GIVE YOU PEACE. So they will put MY NAME on the children of Israyl, and I will bless them."

The Pharisees/Purashim said:

"the priests forbore to mention the Ineffable Name (YHWH) in pronouncing the [priestly] blessing."

That does not sound like respect to me, sounds like blatant rebellion, and what about the prophecy that said out of decipt they would cause His name to be forgotten? That Is Yah Himself saying it...

 

[Hizikyah]

Ok here it is from the "horses mouth"

Talmud - Mas. Yoma 39b
His brethren [that year] the priests forbore to mention the Ineffable Name (YHWH) in pronouncing the [priestly] blessing.4 Our Rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple the lot [‘For the Lord’] did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-coloured strap become white/"

YHWH said:

Numbers 6:23-27, "Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying; This is how you are to bless the children of Israyl. Say to them; YHWH BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU. YHWH MAKE HIS FACE SHINE UPON YOU AND BE MERCIFUL TO YOU. YHWH LIFT UP HIS COUNTENANCE UPON YOU, AND GIVE YOU PEACE. So they will put MY NAME on the children of Israyl, and I will bless them."

The Pharisees/Purashim said:

"the priests forbore to mention the Ineffable Name (YHWH) in pronouncing the [priestly] blessing."

That does not sound like respect to me, sounds like blatant rebellion, and what about the prophecy that said out of decipt they would cause His name to be forgotten? That Is Yah Himself saying it...

Yeremyah 2:8, "The priests did not ask; Where is YHWH? Those who deal with the Law did not know Me! The pastors also transgressed against Me, and the prophets prophesied in the name of Baal, and walked after things of worthlessness"

 

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Many may not know that the majority of modern translations follow a Pharisee/Rabbinical/Judaism law going back as far as 310-199 B.C. Nowhere does the Creator of the heavens and earth say to hide His name, but rather to proclaim it. It is purely an invention of Judaism, yet I get called a Judaizer for using His name, when in reality, those who replace YHWH with the Lord/God are actually following Pharisee/Rabbinical/Judaism law. So I would like to show that most translation readily admit to this, and discuss this matter with any interested.

LORD is the English Interpretation for YAVEH .. The translators did not hide any names.. They translated them..

 

[Hizikyah]

LORD is the English Interpretation for YAVEH .. The translators did not hide any names.. They translated them..

What if they admitted in the Bible Preface that they did it out of tradition?

New American Standard Bible - Preface
"THE PROPER NAME OF GOD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT: In the Scriptures, the name of God is most significant and understandably so. It is inconceivable to think of spiritual matters without a proper designation for the Supreme Deity. Thus the most common name for the Deity is God, a translation of the original Elohim. One of the titles for God is Lord, a translation of Adonai. There is yet another name which is particularly assigned to God as His special or proper name, that is, the four letters YHWH (Exodus 3:14 and Isaiah 42:8). This name has not been pronounced by the Jews because of reverence for the great sacredness of the divine name. Therefore, it has been consistently translated LORD. The only exception to this translation of YHWH is when it occurs in immediate proximity to the word Lord, that is, Adonai. In that case it is regularly translated GOD in order to avoid confusion. It is known that for many years YHWH has been transliterated as Yahweh, however no complete certainty attaches to this pronunciation."

Also what if YHWH Himself said different?

Yeremyah 23:26-27, "How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Yes, they are prophets of the deceit of their own minds; Who devise; plan and scheme, to cause My people to forget My Name through their dreams, which they tell every man to his neighbor, just as their fathers have forgotten My Name for Baal (Lord)."

BAAL (DEITY) [Hebrew - baal] . Canaanite storm and fertility god. The name, which means “lord, ” is an epithet of the god Hadad (lit. “thunderer” ). Well-known from the OT, he is now extremely well-attested in the Ugaritic texts, in addition to being mentioned in other ancient texts. (Freedman, David Noel: The Anchor Bible Dictionary. New York : Doubleday, 1996, c1992, S. 1:546)

The Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 7 page 680
The personal name... written in the Hebrew Bible with the four consonants YHWH and is referred to as the "Tetragrammaton." At least until the destruction of the First Temple in 586 B.C.E. this name was regularly pronounced with its proper vowels, as is clear from the Lachish Letters, written shortly before that date. But at least by the third century B.C.E. the pronunciation of the name YHWH was avoided and Adonai,"the Lord,"was substituted for it.

 

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Ok here it is from the "horses mouth"

Talmud - Mas. Yoma 39b
His brethren [that year] the priests forbore to mention the Ineffable Name (YHWH) in pronouncing the [priestly] blessing.4 Our Rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple the lot [‘For the Lord’] did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-coloured strap become white/"

YHWH said:

Numbers 6:23-27, "Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying; This is how you are to bless the children of Israyl. Say to them; YHWH BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU. YHWH MAKE HIS FACE SHINE UPON YOU AND BE MERCIFUL TO YOU. YHWH LIFT UP HIS COUNTENANCE UPON YOU, AND GIVE YOU PEACE. So they will put MY NAME on the children of Israyl, and I will bless them."

The Pharisees/Purashim said:

"the priests forbore to mention the Ineffable Name (YHWH) in pronouncing the [priestly] blessing."

That does not sound like respect to me, sounds like blatant rebellion, and what about the prophecy that said out of decipt they would cause His name to be forgotten? That Is Yah Himself saying it...

I have to say it again: I don't feel comfortable addressing the Lord by his name. It seems disrespectful. I feel I should address him as "Lord" or "Father."

 

[Hizikyah]

I have to say it again: I don't feel comfortable addressing the Lord by his name. It seems disrespectful. I feel I should address him as "Lord" or "Father."

I understand, but what if He said to call upon His name? What would you think about that if so?

Micahyah (Micah) 4:5, "For all people walk each in the name of his god, but we will walk in the Name of YHWH our Father forever and ever."

Psalm 116:13, "We will take the cup of salvation, and we will call upon Your Name, O YHWH."

Zecharyah 13:9, "And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They will call with My Name, and I will hear them. I will say: It is My people! And they will say; YHWH is my Strength!"

Malakyah 1:11, "For from the rising of the sun, to the going down of the same, My Name will be great among the Gentiles. In every place incense will be offered to My Name, with a pure offering; for My Name will be great among the Gentiles, says YHWH of hosts."

Yahchanan (John) 17:6, "I have manifested Your Name to the men that You gave Me out of the world. They were yours, and You gave them to Me; and they have kept Your word."

Malakyah 3:16, "Then those who reverenced YHWH spoke often one to another, and YHWH paid attention and heard them; and a Book of Remembrance was written in His presence of those who gave reverence to YHWH, and who thought upon His Name."

Exodus 34:5-7, "Then YHWH descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the Name of YHWH. YHWH passed in front of him, and proclaimed: YHWH, YHWH Almighty, merciful and compassionate, longsuffering, and abounding in righteousness and truth. Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression, and sin; but by no means leaving unpunished those who are guilty; Who visits the sin of the fathers upon the children and the children's children, to the third and fourth generation."