Malachi151

What is the real most accurate translation of Genesis? I have looked and I find many different ones. The oldest text that we have is from the Dead Sea Scrolls correct?

Is there some authentic version that has the word Yahweh instead of The Lord, or do they all say The Lord?

spin

Umm, Yahweh is generally represented in an English text with the word "lord". And Genesis has both yhwh and )lhym, but usually in different "sections".

Dean Anderson

The ASV (American Standard Version) uses "Jehovah" rather than "the LORD". So does Young's Literal Version and the Darby translation.

I can't vouch for how good the translation is in general in these versions, though, since I am not that familiar with them.

John Kesler

The New Jerusalem Bible and some "sacred name" Bibles use Yahweh.

Malachi151

I have seen translations where Genesis 1 has the word God, but Genesis 2 says "Yahweh God".

Does the word Yahweh translate to "Lord", or is that a substitution? Why is the word Lord used?

It seems that Yahweh is a proper name, but "Lord" is not.

Its a bit confusion I guess....

jakejonesiv

Yahweh is usually translated as "Lord" and Elohim as "God."

Jake

spin

Yes, Yahweh is considered a name, which is rendered in English as "lord", though it is not a translation of Yahweh, but of the Greek substitute kurios, which also replaces rather than translates Yahweh. The divine name was considered sacred and not to be said, so it was transfigured in various ways. For example, it was rendered in Hebrew with dots instead of the four letters, so that a reader would not inadvertently say the name, but replace it with something else such as ha-shem "the name". In Greek it was usually kurios. Hence the English.


spin