Why Hebrew? Last post answered that with a challenge. The winners are...

in #hebrew7 years ago

Thank you all for stopping in on my last post.

25 SBD went to @contextualize and another 25 SBD to @jhelbich

They both answered at the same time and as usual I either split the prize or award two first place prizes.

Word for word translations are not easy to read. But I laid out the words in the same order they would be read in Hebrew to prove a point.

Are today's Bibles translations or interpretations?

As any bilingual person will tell you, there are some rearrangements needed to make one language understandable in another. As I teach you the Hebrew language, you will need to rearrange things in your mind in order to understand, for example, who did what for whom.

The challenge

Take theses words and tell me what book chapter and verse they are from.

then-he-shall-declare-clean-him and-he-shall-send the bird the alive at face of the field and-he-shall-wash the-one-presenting-himself-for-cleansing garments-of-him and-he-shall-shave-off all of hair of him and he shall bathe in the water and he shall be clean and after he shall come into the camp but he shall live from outside to tent of him seven of days and he will be on the day the seventh he shall shave off all of hair of him head of him and beard of him and brows of eyes of him and all of hair of him he shall shave off and he shall wash garments of him and bathe body of him in the water and he shall be clean

I had a few comments and then the two winners came in at the same time. One even named the book in Hebrew.
Vayikra which is the first word of the book "And he called" Or in English Leviticus.

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But I pulled a fast one for bonus points.

I left a few words off the front of one verse. As you can see below, I started in the middle of verse seven.

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After proclaiming the winners, I asked if either could ID the words left out. @jhelbich was able to name them. So 5 more SBD to him for that.

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Huge Congrats to the winners.

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Click here to obtain the book we will be reading from in a few short weeks.

Thanks for taking the time to read.

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amazing work...congrats both winer..

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Congratulation to the winner and thank to the organizer of this contest..

Not to forget 25 sbd is huge amount at the moment and more then 80 usd...oh thats a good amount of money..

Thank you @hebrew and have a great day.

@jhelbich did an amazing work smart work

Great post as always about this great language!!
Congrats to both winners!!
Upvoted!

thanks for you..

you played it smart and the winners took it to the next level :)

You pull off an interesting contest the winners deserve a round of applauds

I think it is a language worth considering and mastering

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many many congrats to the winners and thanks a lot for producing such contests.