My friend, the emphasis God places on the “originals” is simply this: inspiration happened at the moment God breathed out the words, not at the moment later scribes copied them or translators rendered them, and the example of the tablets proves the point—not that copies become inspired, but that the inspired words remain inspired even when rewritten, because the authority lies in the divine speech, not the physical stone Moses shattered; likewise, Joseph speaking Egyptian and Scripture recording his words in Hebrew does not prove that translations become newly inspired, but that the Spirit‑superintended Hebrew record is inspired, because inspiration attaches to the text the Spirit produced, not to the Egyptian sentences Joseph spoke, meaning your conclusion “God can inspire a translation” is only true in the narrow sense that God can inspire an author who translates, not that any translation itself is automatically inspired; the originals matter because they are the locus of God‑breathed wording, but faithful copies and faithful translations carry that inspired meaning with full authority, which is why Jesus and the apostles quote translations without ever calling the translations inspired in themselves.
