Restored English Translation of Genesis: Chapter 16

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Hello, and greetings to all my new followers!  To bring you up to speed, I am preparing a translation of the Bible, called the Restored English Translation (RET).  Today I am posting Beresheet (Genesis) chapter 16.  As usual, it contains the Hebrew names, with a glossary of them at the end.  At the end is a list of where the Aleph/Tavs occurred, which are no longer included in the main text.

This is the chapter when Sarai has Abram sleep with her servant Hagar.  I do have some comments on this, but I’ll save them for another post.

CHAPTER 16

1 Now Avram’s wife Sarai bore him no children. But she had a female slave, a Mitsri, whose name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said to Avram, “Behold now, YEHOVAH has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my female slave. It may be that I…

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We Live in a Crazy World

For context: https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/a-get-out-of-jail-free-card-gop-bill-would-eliminate-age-requirements-for-marriages-in-tennessee/ From the "party of family values and small government" passing homophobic and transphobic legislation that will harm LGBT kids in the name of "protecting your kids". The Don't Say Gay Bill in Florida, attempts to prosecute parents of trans kids in Texas, etc.

It was Easier to Go to the Moon than Fake Going There

You may remember my post Yes, We Went to the Moon debunking the moon landing conspiracy theories. Here's an amusing video presenting in simple terms why the landings couldn't have been faked - we didn't have the technology (but we DID have the technology to actually go there; flight progressed much faster than film). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhp-FTYSGe8 … Continue reading It was Easier to Go to the Moon than Fake Going There →

Did a Monkey Get Hanged For Being a French Spy?

History is… really weird!

Commonplace Fun Facts

#Hartlepool #monkeys

Just when we thought we had thoroughly combed the historical record and reported all interesting tidbits on a subject, we are reminded that there is no limit to strange stories from the past. In recent days, Commonplace Fun Facts has brought you the accounts of a town that placed a bunch of insects on trial and another story about a San Francisco dog being tried for murder. Just as we were about the close the book on peculiar animal trials, we learned about the infamous Hartlepool monkey hanging.

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More Living Dinosaurs

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In my post Dinosaurs: Extinct or Not? I showed that dinosaurs – which supposedly went extinct 65 million years ago – are still alive, in the form of the Burrunjor of Australia and the Mokele-mbembe of Africa.  Today, I will show they also survive as the Loch Ness Monster of Scotland.

Loch Ness is a freshwater lake in northern Scotland.  It’s particularly famous for sightings in and around the lake of what has come to be called the Loch Ness Monster or Nessie.  Eyewitness accounts of this creature generally closely resemble the Plesiosaurs – the long-necked marine dinos.  Others resemble the Pliosaurs – which were like Plesiosaurs, but with a larger head and almost no neck.  It would appear that BOTH creatures inhabit the loch (Scottish for lake).

sin_txtulo.png_1718483346220px-KronosaurusAbove: Plesiosaur; Left: Kronosaurus, a species of pliosaur

The legend of Nessie…

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