The Whole Process of Bible Study

Observation, Interpretation, and Application as the Bible Study Process

So, we are going to be looking at these verses, the ones that say passages for study. We're going to be examining them with the same process that we have started since we began this course, which is the process of observation, interpretation, and then application.

We're going to do that until right about 725. At that point, we're going to take a break and we're going to do a class photo. Hopefully you wore your shirt tonight, those of you, you got your shirts when you got here tonight and you brought yours with you because we wanted to look nice for our class photo.

After the class photo, if you do not intend to do a paper and receive credit for this course, you will be dismissed. However, if you would like to stay and you're not, you don't have to leave. If you'd like to stay, the last 20 minutes or so, we're going to be going over the requirements for the final and I'm going to be having everyone write down what text they're going to be using so that I know what to expect.

The final is writing an exposition of a text and so you're going to choose one from this or I'm going to choose it for you if you want me to and we're going to put it down on the paper. So, that's what we're going to do in the last 20 minutes of tonight.

Everybody good on what to expect? Alright, how many of you did your homework? Great. Well, we're going to start with that. Pull out your homework. I'm going to pull up Romans 12 and we're going to see here Romans 12, verses 1 and 2.

Now again, I'm trying to get as much words on the screen as I can. I think that you all should be able to read that, is that correct? Is that good? Good. I can go up bigger. We can make it a little larger.

Is that better? Okay. Alright. I'm looking at you, Kelly, you're the furthest away but you don't have glasses so I'm hoping... Alright, so let's look only at verse 1 since that's all we can fit on the screen.

You had your 10 previous observations and your homework was to provide 20 additional observations which means you were required to dig a little deeper for your observations. 10 observations could be simple things such as the verbs in the sentence and things like that, but when I say give me 20 more, which is a total of 30, that means you had to dig a little deeper.

So, I would like to know what observations that were new and maybe ones that you really had to look to see that you were able to come up with. Maybe one or two of you could share something unique that you felt was an observation that you had not seen before really looking at the text.

Who would like to go first?

Alright brother, go right ahead. Well, I just got to see the picture of verse 2 kind of describing verse 1 for us, but I also noticed a shift from bodies to mind, which would imply total surrender, not just your physical body but your mental thoughts, desires.

That's very good. Seeing the comparison from one verse to the next verse and how one is focused on the body and one is focused on the mind. I'm only repeating you just to make sure the recording hears.

That's real good. Okay, so there's a number 2 is outworking number 1. Very good. Anyone else have an observation they'd like to share? Is it only on the first one? Well, if it's something on verse 2, that's fine.

What would you like to share?

The do not conform. It was a command in the negative and it requires sacrifice, discipline, commitment. You know, hard work on our part. Okay, very good.

And it is a negative command. It's a do not command. I think the Greek is me, which is the adversative. Do not. Yeah, good. Very good. All right. Are there others? Yes, ma 'am.

You've already seen God's mercy. We have heard from God's mercy. And so, I keep that up the first time that I see it.

Very good. Yeah, this is something they already know about. By the mercies of God, this is something that you are aware of. Very good. Anyone else would like to share?

Okay, Miss Lane, go ahead. No, no, please. Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice. It was also a command in an urgent fashion that required an action from the believer. And it was a very personal thing.

And so then you go into what kind of sacrifice you're thinking of.

Yeah, what is a living sacrifice? Yeah.

Also, I saw that as a free will. Offer your bodies. And free will is a command. I saw that as free will. You offer your body.

It's not taken from. Okay. Okay. Anyone else have? Yes, Miss Kara. I saw exhortation in the, like, I appeal to you. Like, you know, I don't. I was trying to figure out where it all goes into. But then therefore, that's from the prior part of the letter.

But I just, I was seeing exhortation like, you know, I appeal to you. Therefore, brothers.

Yeah. Yeah, appealing is exhorting. First one. Yeah, no, that's great. No, making an appeal is an exhortation. I'm calling on you to do this. Very good.

Where's Amber? The living sacrifice thing in Rome. He was writing to Roman Christians as well as Jewish Christians that were there. I think it's a reference to the old law of sacrifice still. Yeah. Instead of sacrificing something else, we sacrifice ourselves because of what God already did.

Because like that, therefore, is in reference to the first 11 chapters. You know, and then it's like he laid out that whole thing. Therefore, your part is to offer yourself to the living sacrifice. Yep.

And that's true. I think equating the sacrificial language to the old covenant is very, very good. And he just spent three chapters talking about the relationship to Jews and the new covenant and the old covenant, chapters 9, 10, 11.

Absolutely. Would fit into that. All right. I have one that I'd like to share, but I don't want to go before anyone else. Anybody else want to share anything before we move? Yes, ma 'am, Ms. Rosanna.

You mentioned brothers and sisters and brothers and brothers and sisters.

Okay. Now, this is an interesting translational question. Yours says brothers and sisters. What translation are you using? United. Okay. Because the ESV, you'll notice, only says brothers. But if you notice, there's a star right here.

While you were talking, I just clicked on that and it told me it does say brothers or brothers and sisters. So I want to now look and see if brothers and sisters is part of the original. Because I'm curious.

Not that it would change anything, because I do think the sex references and the pronouns and just like when we say man, it's referencing mankind, not just men, most of the time. So using people or something like that as an appropriate equating language.

In this case, though, since there is the star, I'm going to show you a little trick my program does. And you can do this, of course, with the internet. Sometimes it takes a little longer. But my program gives me the opportunity to pull up the Greek New Testament.

And so I can look at it right next to the English. And because I am able to read partially over here, I can equate them. But even if I couldn't, you'll notice when I tab over a word, it tells me what that word is translated in English.

And so that's a nice little tool. So if I go to I appeal to you, brothers, that is Adelphoi there in the Greek. And it says, Διετών οἶκτηρ μῶν. That's that long, that's that word there. Οἶκτηρ μῶν is mercies to Theou.

That's the genitive of God. So οἶκτηρ μῶν, Adelphoi, Διετών, οἶκτηρ μῶν. That is does not say sisters. It doesn't. There's the word for sisters is not there. But the word Adelphoi is generic. It's where we get the word Adelphos.

It's where we get the word for Philadelphia. That root in the middle of Philadelphia is Adelphos. And that's where we get the word brothers. But it's more like the idea of siblings. So it certainly could be translated brothers and sisters.

Doesn't have to be because brethren is generic. I could say you women are my brethren. And it wouldn't be in any way a negative or inappropriate thing to say. Because it's generic. But it's interesting though because you use the NIV.

You noted something that it said. And it made the point of brothers and sisters. I think it's implied in the ESV. But it's certainly something. But you see now how these programs can be helpful. Now again this is not a super expensive program.

But it's not cheap either. There are internet sources. Studylight .org. And blueletterbible .org. I think. Is it .org or .com? I don't use blue letter much. Those are the two that I use the most. Okay.

The other one that I use is biblehub .com. In fact, I'll just show you why. I don't know if you'll be able to see this very well. There's my Facebook. So we'll eliminate that. And there's me. Bible Hub.

You'll notice it's the first one that comes up. This one is great because if I type in Romans 12 .1, it'll pull up immediately various translations automatically. So I don't have to go look for various translations.

I have the NIV, the NE, the NIV, the NLT, the ESV, the BSV, the BLB. That's the book for me, the IBLE. So there are several translations. Excuse me. I have to start the recording over. I did not realize.

Okay. That's recording. Apparently this new, I have a new iPod that's recording. They still sell iPods. Can you imagine? They still sell them. I bought one just to record sermons with. But apparently it's connected to my phone.

So it just took a call. It's not supposed to take a call. That's not supposed to happen. So I'm going to turn the Internet off. So forgive me. I don't know if you noticed tonight I'm going a little bit more relaxed.

I want to have fun tonight. It's our last class of the semester, and I want to have some fun. All right, so there is, you know, Brothers and Sisters is certainly a possible way to translate. Certainly nothing wrong with it.

But, yes, it does apply to men and women. Okay, so moving back here, I'm going to throw the Greek away for a moment and ask, is there anyone else who would like to share anything before I share one of the things that I noticed?

Yes. I think spiritual worship, the verse defines what spiritual worship is. At the end it says spiritual worship, but it is that spiritual worship is a, you know.

Yep. It is defining what that is. That's very good. But I'm going to throw something else out that's going to tag on to what you just said because I don't think spiritual worship is the right translation.

In fact, I think it's the worst. Not the worst. There's a lot more worse. I don't think it's a good translation, and I'll explain why in a minute. But you're right. That last clause, spiritual worship, is being defined by the mercies of God, presenting your bodies, living sacrifice, holy and acceptable.

All that is giving a definition. But I want to ask you, how do we translate words? We translate words either by a one-to-one equivalent or we translate by what we call the dynamic equivalent. So this is getting to my thing that I noticed.

Every time I read this verse, I notice the same thing, and that is that spiritual worship is not, it doesn't fit. You say, why doesn't it fit? Well, because the word spiritual doesn't mean spiritual in the Greek.

It means reasonable. The word means reasonable. And I'll show you that very quickly. The word for spirit or spiritual is pneumatikos, depending on how it's, and again, I'll bring the Greek up very quickly, and you'll notice that the word here is not, I don't know if you can read that.

Let me get a little closer there. This is the word here.

What's that? I don't think that matters if we can see it or not.

I know you don't, but I'm working towards something here. When I read it to you, the word that would normally be for spiritual would have the root of pneuma, because that's the word for spirit, or sometimes pronounced pneuma, because it begins with the letter P.

But this is the word logikane, and it's where we get the word logical or reasonable. If I say you're being logikane, I'm saying you're being reasonable. It's the logical thing. Therefore, I don't think spiritual is an appropriate translation.

I think the better translation, and this is again something I simply noted, because as I was reading, I said this doesn't, the word spiritual worship sounds like a modern phrase. It doesn't sound like, it's not something, I don't know that that term is ever in scripture that I can remember anywhere other than here.

Spiritual worship, and I said it's not what Paul is saying. He is saying that if you present your bodies a living sacrifice, the reasonable result is that you would offer yourself a living sacrifice. The reasonable service, or the reasonable, and by the way, the word worship is latrein, and that is a word for service.

So I actually translate this that to offer your bodies a living sacrifice, for this is your reasonable or your logical service. It's the logical thing to do. If you have received the mercies of God, the logical outpouring of that, the rational outpouring of that is that you would offer yourself a living sacrifice.

So that's why I say I don't think spiritual worship, and again, comparative now, I want to pull up the King James. So here is the King James, and notice what the King James says. I beseech you, therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable God, which is your what?

Reasonable service. So this is one of the times where I think the King James provides a better translation than does the English Standard Bible. But again, all I've done is made an observation. Not interpreting it, I guess I've given a little bit of an interpretation as to why I would accept one versus the other, but simply looking at the word logocaine and how it's to be used, I don't see it as spiritual, I see it as logical.

Now, an interesting addition to this is if you go here to this little star and click on it, you'll notice even in the ESV, a secondary rendering, which you can't see because it's too small, is rational service, because even in their textual notes, they have provided what I would consider to be the better reading.

So that's, again though, this is all observation, right? It's one thing to notice. That phrase sounds funny. Let me go and see how that phrase is. You don't have to know Greek. If all you knew was King James, you could go over to the King James and say, well, the ESV says spiritual worship.

The King James says your, what was it? Reasonable service. So spiritual worship and reasonable service is not the same. We agree? Now, spiritual worship can be reasonable service, but they're not the same.

And so right away, a simple, remember what we said, one of the ways to do observation was compare one English text to another. You don't have to know Greek. You can just look from one English text. They used to have these things called parallel Bibles.

I guess they still sell them, but you can choke a mule with it, so I don't know if there are very many people that carry them around.

You know what I'm talking about. It's in my office, but I don't carry it.

You can't carry it unless you've got a backpack. You know, it's this big, but it has the King James, the NIV, the ES, whatever, four, usually it's four translations side by side. So this is a helpful way to do it.

Like I said, my program does it for me, so I don't, I get to cheat. But this is my job. I've got to have good tools for a good job, right?

Yes? I know you mentioned earlier the starting of the different versions, like the passion you said was, I mean, but the different.

The message. There's the message, which is a paraphrase, and there is the passion translation, but the passion translation is more of a, it's more of a, it's, it's, I can't think of the word I'm trying to look for.

It's awful, but that's not the word I'm looking for.

I know you guys are digging into my question. I know that there are translations that change, that change the meaning of Scripture. I mean, are we to be careful in everything that, I mean, some people use NIV, some people use ESV.

Is there, is there any, any situations, I guess you could say, where we shouldn't be considering a particular translation because it changes the translation?

Yes. Well, and, and, and if you'll remember from the first lesson, I think, or the second lesson when I talked about, I gave you that little speedometer. Yeah. I said the ones closer to the left side are the, are the more literal.

Yeah. And then closer to the right. The further you get to the right, the less literal you're going to have. Therefore, if you are concerned about which one is more likely to be accurate word for word to the original, you want to stay closer to the left side.

They did a little research and they posted, actually I posted it on the Sovereign Grace Academy page about three or four weeks ago, and it showed the percentage of readability and accuracy to the Greek, and the highest one was the ESV, when you compare both, readability and accuracy.

But then there was like the Christian Standard Bible and the New American Standard Bible. They were all within a few percentage points of each other. And then, but like the NLT, very low on the accuracy.

The, and they didn't even include things like the message and stuff like that because it wasn't, they're not going to, they're not going to come across with accuracy. I'll give you a few that you don't want.

The Passion Translation, it's not even worth going to. It's so mistranslated. I would say be careful, well, don't, and you don't want the New World Translation. That's the Jehovah Witnesses translation.

The New World Translation, I have one simply for when the Jehovah Witnesses come. Apologetics. Yeah, it's an apologetics tool. I wouldn't use, I wouldn't use the message unless I was needing an illustration about bad translation.

No, that's bad. I'm just kidding. No, I probably, you know, the message is, you know, I probably wouldn't use it. But I'm not saying you shouldn't. I'm just saying I probably wouldn't. You know, for me, I want accuracy to the original as much as I can.

But we can get accuracy from different translations of the Bible, right?

Yeah, I mean, again, if you have the Christian Standard Bible, the English Standard Version, the New American Standard Bible, the King James Bible, all of these are going to be accurate to within, you know, like I said, there might be a few words.

Like I said, I just showed you in ESV where that one phrase, spiritual worship, was not the best way to translate. At least according to me, who I'm not a professional Bible translator. But in my opinion, it's not the best way to translate that text.

And again, it's just one of the observations. How would I make that observation without going to another text? If you're doing, if you're just reading for devotional reading, your daily, my daily reading is ESV.

And I don't compare that with, because right now we're in like, where are we at, babe? We're in Second Chronicles, right? So we're just reading, right? It's just for personal development and growth and being in the Word.

It's good discipline. But for my sermon, for what I'm studying, man, I'm looking at every translation I can. I print four or five out on a sheet. And the first thing I do is I go through the ESV. I mark it all up.

I write all the things. And then I go, how does this differ from the King James? How does this differ from the New American Standard? How does this differ from the NIV? And I only make notes about where they differ.

Because I don't care about where they agree. I care about where they disagree. And that's where this one, this particular jumped out to me, is where they disagree. Is that helpful? Does that answer your question?

Yes, sir. Okay, all right, great. All right, so now we're going to, I think we've done enough damage to this text. And I do want to get to some of the other ones. Does anybody have any questions before we move on?

Any other? Well, let's move to our first text on our sheet. If you pull out your passages for study. And we're going to look up Genesis chapter 6, beginning at verse 1. And I want to say that I was nervous about this one.

Only because you're going to find probably not a lot of satisfaction in some of the answers I'm going to give you. But I'll give you the best I can. Because all we're going to do is do what we've been doing.

But for lack of time, we're not going to be able to spend as much time on each of these as we would like. But let's begin at verse 1 and read down to verse 4. When man began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive.

And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, My spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh. His days shall be 120 years. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward.

When the sons of God came into the daughters of man, and they bore children to them, these were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. That's the passage we're looking at. I do want to just briefly note that the passage before this is a very long genealogy.

So this does create a new break in the narrative. Because when a genealogy comes in, that's breaking the narrative up. So this is a new section. So when, that first word, when begins a new section in the narrative.

And following this, we see the statement, The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention and thought of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord regretted that he made man on the earth, and it aggrieved him in his heart.

And so this begins the process of God choosing to bring the flood judgment. So that gives us a historic context. This is prior to the flood, but this is part of the instigation that brings about the flood.

And so that's the context. Again, we're observing, right? This is the context that we're in. Let us now look and note a few other things. And I'm just going to make notes as I go. If you want to say something, feel free to raise your hand.

But again, for time's sake, I'm going to just simply walk through this as best I can. Number one, I note something right off the bat that the word Lord, L-O-R-D, is capitalized in the ESV. Anytime the capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D is in the Old Testament, that is typically a translation of the name Yahweh.

If you see capital O, lowercase r, lowercase o, lowercase r, lowercase d, that is translating the word Adonai. And so that tells me something about the Hebrew right away. This is likely using the proper name of God.

Now, does that mean anything? I don't know right now. I'm not looking for meaning. I'm looking for observation. So my first observation is that the name of God is capitalized all the way through. Now, if I were doing this, I would very quickly want to make sure I was right.

And I would pull up an interlinear just to see. And that is the four-letter name of God. That is a Yod, He, Vod, He in Hebrew, which is the word Yahweh in the vernacular. So that tells me I'm right. So I want to know if I'm right, because if I'm wrong, I want to know that, too.

Yes, dear? Which verse are you on? I'm in Genesis 6, 5, and I shouldn't be. So let me go back to Genesis 6, 1. Thank you, Jennifer, for observing. Well, it's in verse 3 also. Thank you, brother, for saving me.

Yes, it's in verse 3, too. But I'm very embarrassed, because I didn't realize I was in the wrong verse. It's hard to do this. I'm doing this. I've explained. There's a lot. I'm coming, you know. Should have put this text last.

Then we wouldn't have got to it. I thought you were on verse 3, man. Well, hey, praise the Lord for you, brother. Well, that was a little extra, little tidbit of information when you're looking. Why does that even matter?

Big question, why does that matter?

There's an interpretation that there's some sort of Lord Yahweh being different than just Lord Adonai. Yahweh's more special. I'm not saying that. No, you're right.

When the proper name of God is used, there's normally a reason for it. What did you want to say, brother?

You want to add something to that? Yahweh is God's revealed name to us. Adonai is a character.

It's a description of His character. Yeah, and the other word that would be used, Elohim, which is a generic term for God. Like we'd say, Theos, and Elohim would be it. He said, I am that I am. That was Him.

Yeah, He was describing Himself. And so, what God's about to do is very personal. He's about to judge the world for sin because of His righteousness, and He's doing it personally. And so, He's using the personal name.

So, right there, we could begin to make an interpretation as to why. We just begin to dip into that. Yes?

I have a question. Didn't God tell Moses His name? Yeah, that's what he was just talking about. But this is way before Moses. Yes, it is. But Moses is writing this.

Remember, I was actually going to bring that up too. Because there's something called the documentary hypothesis. And this is a liberal scholarly view, which says that Moses did not write the first five books of the Bible, but that it was written by four different authors.

The Yahwist, the Priestly, the Elohist, and there's one more. Basically saying that any time you see the word for God differently, that means it's a different author. I don't accept that. I don't accept that.

I think Moses wrote all these because Jesus referred to Moses as the author of these books. And so, I accept Jesus' understanding of the word. But that is another thing that you could say. Elohim was used in just a few chapters earlier.

And now, Yahweh is being used. And so, what you would have to say if you were a documentary person, a documentary hypothesis, you'd have to say that this is an amalgamation of several writers, not just one writer.

And I don't accept that. I think it's all one writer. And the use of the different terms for the name of God are just for whatever purpose it is in context. But that leads to a whole other question and conversation.

All right. So, when man began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God. That's a question. Who are the sons of God? Well, you could go back a step and you could say who are the men that were multiplying.

Well, if you go up, you see that it's a genealogy. So, this is referring to mankind. When mankind began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive.

Okay. There is a statement that will require some interpretation. But we're not interpreting it. We're only observing at this point. So, what can we observe about the phrase sons of God?

Anything? First thing I would check is why does it say God and not...

Okay. Just for the sake of it, I'm going to pull up just... And it is the word Elohim there. So, it is God and the generic sons of God.

What else? Anything? I just noticed that man began to multiply, and then it switches the sons of God to Saul, and then it says daughters of man were attractive. So, it's a distinction of sons of God versus man and daughters.

Otherwise, it would not say. That's right, and that's huge. What you just noticed, Johnny, is actually really important. It's making a distinction. Some kind of distinction is being made between sons of God and daughters of man.

Something distinguishes the two. Later when we interpret, we'll try to figure out what that is. But for now, the thing that we need to note is there's a distinction between the sons of God and the daughters of man.

Okay, moving on. It says they, that they. Remember, it is a pronoun. A pronoun has to require an antecedent. An antecedent is the noun that preceded the pronoun. So, the they there is the sons of God.

The sons of God took as their wives any, any what? Any of the daughters of man. That's the predecessor of that phrase. Any as they chose. So, we have, and they took as their wives any they chose. So, that is that the sons of God took from the daughters of man any that they chose.

Now, I want to make an observation very quickly. Verse 3 is, we're going to note it and skip it. You say, wait, why? Because I think that in regard to this particular, the argument, let me just go ahead and tell you what the question is.

The question is, who are the Nephilim? That's why people deal with this. And this section about the 120 years is actually related to the issue that comes later. And that's the issue of Noah and the flood.

We could spend time with it. But since we're, since I know we're driving to a question, I'm going to, I'm going to simply bypass this. Because we can make several observations about the fact that the word Lord is used.

My spirit shall not abide with man forever. He is flesh. His days shall be 120 years. Is that relating to 120 years? Every man is promised, you know, three score and six kind of thing. Or is that, is this the 120 years from the time Noah is told to build the ark and the time that he doesn't?

You know, there's a lot you could do with this. I don't want to do that right now. We're going to move on to verse 4. Because this is really the key verse in question. And that is this phrase, the Nephilim.

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days. What days? The days that the, the first verse. It says, when man began to multiply and face the earth. That's the days that's being referred to in verse 4.

When it says the Nephilim were on the earth in those days. And also afterward, when the sons of God came into the daughters of man. And they bore children to them. Now, note, it says the Nephilim were on the earth in those days.

And afterward, when the sons of God came into the daughters of man. And they bore children to them. Often times, it is assumed that the Nephilim are the offspring of the daughters of men and the sons of God.

But if you read that text back, it does not say that the Nephilim are the offspring. It simply says they were on the earth at the same time as the sons of God were going into the daughters of men. Now you can, when we get to the interpretive point, you can say that's what Moses was trying to say.

But you have to interpret that, that's not what it says. You're having to go further than the text. You're having to say that's inferred or implied. Not explicit. Because that's what it says, the Nephilim were on the earth in those days.

And also afterward, when the sons of God came into the daughters of man. And they bore children to them. One of the popular interpretations is the children are the Nephilim. But it's not a necessary interpretation.

Now, these were the mighty men who were of old. Here's where we have a difficult interpretive challenge. The these, does that refer to the children? Or to the Nephilim? I would say it refers to the Nephilim.

But my point is though, the preceding noun of these is not Nephilim, it's children. That's the immediate preceding noun. So again, we have to make an interpretive choice. Is the these referring to the children?

Or is it referring to the Nephilim? And are the children the Nephilim? See what observation is, it's just a whole bunch of questions. All we're doing is asking questions. Who's and what's and why's and where's.

That's all we've learned. Be an investigator. So the first thing I want to do at this moment. I want to see what it says in a different translation. Because I want to see if there's anything that the ESV is saying that's awkward or wrong.

Now what's my trusted secondary translation? Well it would be the New American Standard Bible. But the New American Standard Bible is the ESV without semicolons. Or the ESV is the New American Standard Bible without semicolons.

I actually like to go to the King James. As my primary second text. And here's why. One, it reads so differently. It's almost like reading a different text. But it also is based on a different manuscript tradition.

So sometimes I'm going to see things that aren't even in the modern text. Especially in the Greek. Not so much in the Hebrew. But especially in the Greek. So if I pull up the ESV and I'm reading. And I pull up the King James.

It might be longer. And oh, now I want to know is there a textual variant. Now I'm going to go to the New English translation. Which provides me with textual variant notes. It tells me why a verse might be in question.

Right? So immediately I'm going to go over. And I'm going to pull up the King James Bible. And we're going to read it. Genesis. We're going to get to do one of these. And isn't it great that we're doing the worst one?