SSBE - 1981
The Sacred Scriptures,Bethel Edition
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This translation is based on the AmericanStandard, 1901. The ASV was probably the most accurate translationwork of the Bible ever put into print.

It is important to have the reader personally realizethat the Tetragrammaton is of vital importance if one is to comprehendthe distinctive flavor of the original text. The term "Lord"is not a name, but a title which cannot represent the unique word thatstands for the Name of the Almighty. The form "Jehovah" originatedas a corruption by the scribes who introduced foreign vowel points andattached them to the Tetragrammaton. The vowel points were those of theword "Adonai." The English hybrid "Jehovah" resultedwhen Peter Gallatin in 1520 published this form. He did not understandwhat the scribes had done in applying these vowel points so that the readerwould pronounce "Adonai" instead of "Yahweh." TheTalmud explains that the Name of the Almighty is written "Yah,"but pronounced "Adonai."

Although several Bible translations have retained thename "Yahweh" in the Old Testament, no Bible translation hasrestored all of the sacred titles to an accurate text. No translationhas accurately restored the Name "Yahweh" to the New Testament.Nor is there a translation that has faithfully restored the Savior's trueName, Yahshua the Messiah, to the text of the Bible.

Since the Assemblies of Yahweh have a singular desireto learn the truth of the Bible and to obey it, they have sought to goback to the source to find a proper transliteration of the Messiah's Namewhich He bore when He was on the earth. They have restored the Sacred Nameand the sacred titles and the Name of Yahshua to the text of the Bible.They have also tried to eliminate the Shakespearean English. They havenot resorted to the modern corrupt slang of American English.

Assemblies of Yahweh (1981)

[Tyndale House, Cambridge, UnitedKingdom]

Genesis1: 1, 2

In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth.And the earth had become waste and void; and darkness was upon the faceof the deep; and the Spirit of Elohim moved upon the face of the waters.

 
 

John1: 1 - 3

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was withYahweh, and the Word was Elohim. The same was in the beginning with Yahweh.All things were made through him; and without him was not anything madethat has been made.

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