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Originally Posted by craigepo
I was doing some studying a few weeks ago. A scholar opined that the King James Bible mistranslated a line of the Ten Commandments. According to the scholar, "Thou shalt not kill" should have translated to "Thou shall not murder", but the two words had little to any distinction in old English at the time of the King James translation. The gulf between the words today is rather large.
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Couldn't agree more...
Ask any Rabbi, and they're not confused.
Murder = Ratsach (Hebrew)
Kill = Harag (Hebrew)
Exodus 20:13 = Thou shall not "Ratsach"
The KJV got it wrong because there was still some vagueness on ancient Hebrew meaning, until the Dead See Scrolls where discovered in the decade following WWII.
...just saying
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