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Liz McDowell's avatar

Thank you for giving your time to this. I discovered the 1599 Geneva Bible several years ago. I read the Bible every year and use a different translation. The more I read it the less boring it becomes. The Holy Spirit has revealed so much to me. Naomi, I love listening to you read this text and I am following along with you in my personal 1599 Geneva Bible. Be blessed! Liz McDowell

Polemarchus's avatar

Bore us? Not hardly! It is quite a privilege to hear the Hebrew and have your contextual understanding. Will be praying for your healing.

Susan pfeffer's avatar

How many of us are transactional,when there is so much more! There will always be an element of the transactional, we are so weak and helpless! But the relationship with Him on its own is such a beautiful thing! So,many Christian things were once Jewish things! I believe He intended continuity!

Michelle Dostie's avatar

In the KJV, the “it” is in italics, meaning it is not the original translation. One has to understand translation to know the it was He!

Michelle Dostie's avatar

You may want to know that William Tyndale wrote the first translation in the English language, before the KJV. He was martyred in 1536 for his passion that the English peoples be able to read the Bible in their own language.

Michelle Dostie's avatar

I believe God is ordaining or preparing the priests to holy FOR THE PEOPLE.

In church we fall on our backs with the anointing at the altar, the Pastor reaching toward us, with catchers catching us.

Michelle Dostie's avatar

Messiah is the Anointed One. I understand the block of One God, since my Jewish friends all mention the basis of their faith. Please know that it is a block for we Christians too to try to speak of the Three in One without losing one’s friend.

Michelle Dostie's avatar

I felt the anointing of God while you were reading Aaron’ priestly actions to prepare the people. This is thousands of years ago! As if I was worshipping or taking communion.

Darci A Braz's avatar

Excellent reading Naomi and YES...be real. It's one of the qualities we love most about you!! PS, this Jew loves Jesus too & understands the difficulty with the 3 in 1. Look forward to your next reading as well as to #3...This really happened. Oh...had no idea about your health issues. Will add you to my prayers!

PJPKAK's avatar

I hope you have improvement and recovery from your medical issues. God bless you Naomi.

PJPKAK's avatar

Amazing reading , and I had avoided Leviticus as too boring and full of priestly instructions. I had no idea the Hebrew people actually saw God’s face and did not die.

Bill Bies's avatar

whats your take on Leviticus 19:34 and our current immigration issues?

Esther Cook's avatar

I love hearing the sounds of Hebrew, my people's language. I am VERY GRATEFUL to you listeners who are able to pay. I love the amazing insights from Naomi translating directly from the Hebrew.

Naomi, you say the name of G-d in vain a lot. Jews say "HaShem" the Name to avoid this sin, but it is all OVER our culture. But you are a Jew and you know what to do about it--say a Bracha (blessing) so the Name is honored and the sin erased. A good one in English is "Blessed Be the Name of the Lord, now and forevermore." Doing this will be good for your soul--and very enlightening to our culture. You will change the world a little by this.

Steve Paselk's avatar

In these times of appalling zionist genocide from the Israeli government many who were raised Christian are forced to re- look at the Old Testament that tells us the Jews were the chosen people of God who commanded them to kill other tribes down to the last man, woman, baby, or

domesticated animal. My take on this scripture channelled through prophets is that this is a distorted message channeled through a deeply traumatized people that is used to give them comfort while they engage in retribution. Now we can watch videos of Rabbis repeating these messages of killing entire peoples down to the last man, woman, or baby today who also say that European and American Christians as well as Buddhists and Hindus don't have the right to live. This starts to seem similar to Jihadist Islamists. We also learn that the Jews of Israel have little Semitic DNA as they are from eastern european Asians who converted to Judaism centuries ago and are known as Khazarian Jews. It is becoming more difficult to not oppose what many Jews are promoting. I would ask Naomi to weigh in on this to clarify? Are most Jews afraid to at least stand up to oppose the zionist genocide?

Steve Paselk's avatar

Can Naomi or any Jewish reader respond to these concerns brought into focus by the Israeli Genocide?

Vernon's avatar

Do we need the Jewish holy book to find God? Must we believe that the God of armies who orders massacres and holocausts, who orders Abraham to kill his only son is the only true God? Must we still believe in a tribal God? Will we ever be able to move forward from this nightmare that has tormented us for thousands of years?

Anne England's avatar

Wonderful that you are seeing what God wants us to see, Himself. Only from the original writings and studying the word with the help of the Holy Spirit do we know these things. I am blessed to have a teacher who has studied from the original for 20 years. We have learned who God really is, and who we are as his offspring, created in his image and likeness. I'm excited for you. God is wonderful and amazing and always kind and loving. He doesn't kill steal or destroy, but we who have free wills do it to ourselves. He is Love as written in 1 Corinthians 13. He never changes.

Craig B's avatar

The RSV, NAS, Geneva Bible, and every decent translation agree in this text, where Jesus Christ indicts the Pharisees: "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is these that bear witness of Me; 40 and you are unwilling to come to Me, that you may have life. 41 "I do not receive glory from men; 42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves. 43 "I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive Me; if another shall come in his own name, you will receive him. 44 "How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another, and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God? 45 "Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope. 46 "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote of Me. 47 "But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?" (John 5:39-47 NAS). God's best to you, Naomi, always.