Ask Bob #103: Why Do Bible Versions Translate Differently?

Bob Young
5 min readApr 29, 2019

Bible translation is a difficult thing. What are we to conclude when two English translations say the exact opposite?

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A friend of mine was lamenting a contradiction that he discovered in the various translations of Hosea 11:12. He wanted to know: how can we trust the Bible, when respected translators translate the same passage so differently? Here are the two…

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Bob Young

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