Silva recommends that Bible interpreters (here he again quotes another scholar) define a word “in such fashion as to make it contribute least to the total message derivable from the passage where it is at home. As an exceptionally astute reader yourself, did you feel it was clear to you where they were getting the one idea they added (the sickness) and the one they strengthened (the reason for the Lord’s desire to kill Moses)? This paragraph-style format and clean design allow you to better grasp the themes in scripture as your eyes follow a more natural reading pattern.

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The Amplified Bible adds text in brackets that helped me: “Now it happened at the lodging place, that the Lord met Moses and sought to kill him [making him deathly ill because he had not circumcised one of his sons]. It makes them think, “Ah, now I know what the Greek word here really means”—and then to Choose Their Own Adventure, picking the meaning they like most.

Intuitive Interface: Navigate effortlessly through the app's user-friendly interface, designed to enhance your reading experience. If you like the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition as much as we do, then you’re going to really enjoy this new release. I felt so honored that she would take time to respond to my request that I almost turned off my critical thinking skills and wrote back, “Awesome! The fact is that Exodus 4:19 is obscure, and the Amplified’s guess at what was going on is a good one—a very good one that is attentive to the hints within the passage. Now there’s nothing wrong with speculation and interpolation as long as it’s clearly marked off (as the Amplified Bible does) and understood by the reader to be speculation and interpolation.

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Thankfully, however, the Amplified—like a fair amount of Bible teaching out there—is better in practice than in theory, and you should still own it. Set up daily reminders to receive a new verse each day, fostering a deeper connection with scripture and its timeless teachings. Its purpose is to reveal, together with the single English word equivalent to each key Hebrew and Greek word, any other clarifying meanings that may be concealed by the traditional translation method.It seemed to me, and I confirmed this with a quick check of a few translations and my Lexham English-Hebrew interlinear, that the Amplified Bible was adding its own ideas to the text.