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@Stephen Andrew considers himself to be a true and loyal member of the Catholic Church. The best I can do is just pull up a chair, grab a large carbonated beverage and a sweet treat and then sit and watch as you guys figure it out.

I have never heard the Hebrew scripture referred to as Tang. What language is that?

Actually, @Stephen Andrew is from the USA, from the state of Maine specifically. He is capable of writing normative English, but for some reason he prefers to write in a manner that is difficult to understand. On another forum he and I have had conversation about this. Furthermore, there are...

No, @Stephen Andrew is not implying. As he has made clear on other forums, and I suspect on his website, he is saying that Mary is the Holy Spirit.

What does a Pharisee do about what?

Jacob awakes from his sleep and says אכן יש ה' במקום הזה ואנכי לא ידעתי With some variations in the way the deity's name is handled, virtually all translations have Jacob declaring, "Surely the Lord was in this place and I did not know it." However, what the Hebrew actually says, as I have...

As am I. I want to frame an answer to a question/comment you made and I want to reach back to my secular law years and it is easier if we’re both living in countries with thevdame orvsimilar legal foundations.

Off the top of my head I can only think of one English translation of Genesis 28:16 that gets it right.

Hebrew is another example of a gendered language, having no neutral non-gendered word for “it”. The best I can do is try to use nongendered nouns in place of pronouns, but that can be awkward,

@DerekhHikmah - You might think I’m derailing the thread by this qurstion, but I’m not. Would you tell me in what part of the world you reside?

I should have added that it literally means Delight of Shabbat. There is a difference between “delight” and “joy”.

@DerekhHikmah - Oneg Shabbat does not really, literally, mean, Joy of Shabbat.

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@Thomas - You cited the KJV - "Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; even them will I bring to my holy mountain...

Or next week for those on the forum who are members of the Orthodox church.