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Nida wasn't unique, nor the first in that regard. "But if a translator's business is to produce on his readers the same effect as the original text produced on those who read and heard it, Moffatt succeeded wonderfully; and this is part of the secret of the popularity of his version...

In a few hundred places.

"He try's hard." Hmm...

Hebrew 12:1,2 Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered, fixing our eyes upon Jesus, our leader and example in faith, who, in place of the happiness that...

All translations are approximations of the originals. So, strictly speaking they are all paraphrases. But actually paraphrases are reworded texts of another text in the same language. So, most translations don't qualify as paraphrases, with an exception every now and then like the original...

Hebrews 2:1-4 This is why we must give the very closest attention to the message we have heard, to keep from ever losing our hold upon it. For if the message delivered by angels proved to be authentic, and every violation or neglect of it led to a corresponding penalty, how can we escape if we...

Psalm 128 Happy are all who fear the LORD, who conform to his ways. You will enjoy the fruit of your labours, you will be happy and prosperous. Within your house your wife will be like a fruitful vine; your sons round your table will be like olive saplings. Such is the blessing in store for...

Psalm 125 Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion : it cannot be shaken; it stands fast forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people both now and evermore. Surely wicked rulers will not continue to hold sway in the land allotted to the righteous, or the...

Wow! I didn't know that, especially the Gen. 11:1 wording.

Psalm 114 When Israel came out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbaric people, Judah became God's sanctuary, Israel his domain. The sea fled at the sight; Jordan turned back. The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs of the flock. What made you, the sea, flee away? Jordan, what...

Psalm 100 Let all the earth acclaim the LORD! Worship the LORD in gladness; enter his presence with joyful songs. Acknowledge that the LORD is God; he made us and we are his, his own people, the flock, which he shepherds. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, his courts with praise. Give thanks...

Titus 1:15,16 To the pure everything is pure, but to the evil-minded and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are unclean. They profess to know God, but they disown him by what they do; they are detestable, disobedient men, worthless for any good purpose.

2 Timothy 2:15,16 Do your best to win God's approval as a workman who has nothing to be ashamed of, but rightly shapes the message of truth. Leave worldly empty phrases alone, for they lead people deeper and deeper into godlessness.

"At issue, therefore, in a good translation is where one puts the emphasis: (1) on imitating as closely as possible the words and grammar of the Hebrew or Greek text, or (2) on producing idiomatic, natural sounding English. Or is there some balance between these two? "....the task of...

Chapter 18 v.8 ESV : The words of a whisperer NIV " The words of a gossip v.14 ESV : A man's spirit will endure sickness NIV : The human spirit can endure in sickness v. 20 ESV : From the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach is satisfied NIV : From the fruit of their mouth a person's stomach is...

Psalm 93 The LORD has become king,clothed with majesty; the LORD is robed, girded with might. The earth is established immovably; your throne is established from of old; from all eternity you are God. LORD, the great deep lifts up, the deep lifts up its voice; the deep lifts up its crashing...

Psalm 87 The city the LORD founded stands on the holy hills. He loves the gates of Zion more than the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. I shall count Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me; of Philistines, Tyrians, and Nubians it will be said...

Yes, the REB was a complete redo of the NEB in a more conservative fashion, especially the Old Testament.

In my later edition of Goodspeed there is versification, but not clearly marked off.

1 Timothy 1:3,4 As I asked you to do when I was on my way to Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus in order to warn certain people there not to teach strange views nor to devote themselves to fictions and interminable pedigrees; such things lead to controversy instead of the divine system which...