larryjf
Puritan Board Senior
Does the way the NASB and ESV translators translate certain passages indicate that they really do not believe in preservation?
2 Chr 31:16 (NASB)
without regard to their genealogical enrollment, to the males from thirty years old and upward--everyone who entered the house of the LORD for his daily obligations--for their work in their duties according to their divisions;
It is my understanding that all ancient manuscripts contain "3 years old" and not the 30 that we see in the NASB. Does this imply that the translators feel a need to correct the Scriptures because they are not preserved?
1 Sam 13:1 (ESV)
Saul was... years old when he began to reign, and he reigned... and twoyears over Israel.
Here they show that there is missing text in the Scriptures. Clearly you cannot show that there is missing text and still believe the text has been preserved, right? Besides, this would sound very strange if read in public.
[Edited on 4-12-2006 by larryjf]
2 Chr 31:16 (NASB)
without regard to their genealogical enrollment, to the males from thirty years old and upward--everyone who entered the house of the LORD for his daily obligations--for their work in their duties according to their divisions;
It is my understanding that all ancient manuscripts contain "3 years old" and not the 30 that we see in the NASB. Does this imply that the translators feel a need to correct the Scriptures because they are not preserved?
1 Sam 13:1 (ESV)
Saul was... years old when he began to reign, and he reigned... and twoyears over Israel.
Here they show that there is missing text in the Scriptures. Clearly you cannot show that there is missing text and still believe the text has been preserved, right? Besides, this would sound very strange if read in public.
[Edited on 4-12-2006 by larryjf]