https://mistertranslation.com/ A fresh translation of the Bible into modern English, made from the original Hebrew and Greek one chapter at a time. en https://mistertranslation.com/revelation-13.html https://mistertranslation.com/revelation-13.html Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A beast rises out of the sea -- ten horns, seven heads, the dragon's own body from the chapter before, and now a composite of every animal Daniel's four-beast vision needed a separate scene to describe: a leopard's body, a bear's feet, a lion's mouth. One of its heads bears a… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-36.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-36.html Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The last chapter of Numbers, and it is an appeal against a ruling the book already made. In Numbers 27 the daughters of Zelophehad won their dead father’s land; here the men of their own clan draw near — the same verb the sisters used, in the masculine — and point out that if… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-35.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-35.html Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The cities of refuge — and the chapter is where the sixth commandment’s own verb lives: ratzach, the word in lo tirtzach, stands here twenty times out of forty-five in the whole Hebrew Bible, in fourteen of thirty-four verses. ⭐ Hebrew uses ONE word for the man who kills by… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-34.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-34.html Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The borders of Canaan, drawn corner to corner — and the chapter is a DEED, not a description: gvul, border, stands in it sixteen times in twenty-nine verses, more than in any other chapter of the Torah and nearly three times the runner-up. ⭐ The land is not GIVEN here, it… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-33.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-33.html Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Moses writes the whole forty-year itinerary himself, stage by stage, forty-two camps from Rameses to the plains of Moab, and its opening line collects a promise made forty years earlier: Exodus 12:12 has Jehovah say he WILL execute judgments on Egypt's gods; here, in the… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-32.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-32.html Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Reuben and Gad, rich in cattle, ask to settle east of the Jordan instead of crossing into Canaan — and Moses answers not with a ruling but with a history lesson, retelling Numbers 13-14 almost word for word to men who were children when the scouts' report cost their parents… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-31.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-31.html Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Moses sends an army to avenge Israel on Midian, and the campaign that follows refuses to stay simple. Every fighting man is killed and every city burned — and Balaam, the gentile seer who filled three earlier chapters with his own voice, dies in six words, the same clause as… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-30.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-30.html Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A single law of vows, and the shelf cannot even agree where it begins — only Douay-Rheims and Geneva 1599 side with the Masoretic text in opening the chapter with the sentence Numbers 29's own closing note promised; the other eleven witnesses on this project's shelf attach it… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-29.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-29.html Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Jehovah completes the offering calendar Numbers 28 began, and this half is where the chapter starts naming its own seams instead of leaving them silent. ⭐ The New Year's day of blowing (v1) is never called a new year here or in its parallel at Leviticus 23 — Exodus 12:2… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-28.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-28.html Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Jehovah hands Moses the tabernacle's fixed offering calendar, and the chapter's whole grammar is one word: tamid, continual — every occasion from here on is layered ON the twice-daily lamb, never instead of it. ⭐ The numbers agree exactly with Exodus 29:38-42, unchanged… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-27.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-27.html Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Five women walk to the front of the camp and change a law. ⭐ Zelophehad’s daughters — named in a census two chapters ago for no stated reason — stand before Moses, the priest, the chieftains and the whole congregation and argue a case: our father was not in Korah’s faction… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-26.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-26.html Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The book counts its people a second time, and the arithmetic is the argument. ⚠ Numbers 1 counted a generation at Sinai; this counts their children on the plains of Moab, thirty-eight years later, in the same words — and the last three verses explain why: not one man of the… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-25.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-25.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The disaster Balaam could not deliver, arriving without him. ⚠ Israel camps at Shittim — the place named after ACACIAS, the wood its own tabernacle is built from — and the people begin sleeping with Moabite women and eating at their gods’ sacrifices. ⭐ The verb for what… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-24.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-24.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Balak has paid for a curse three times and is about to be told what will happen to him. ⚠ The chapter opens by reporting that Balaam stopped going toward omens — the plural of the very noun he had just denied of Israel in the previous chapter, so the man abandons his… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-23.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-23.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Balak has hired a curse and he is going to be billed for two blessings. Seven altars go up, then seven more, then seven more — twenty-one bulls and twenty-one rams across three summits — and each time the answer comes back the wrong way round. ⚠ Read the narrator’s verb… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-22.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-22.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Israel is camped on the plains of Moab and the story leaves them entirely for three chapters. Balak king of Moab has just watched what happened to Sihon and Og, works out that he cannot win a battle, and goes looking for a weapon an army cannot answer — so he sends four… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-21.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-21.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The hinge of the book, and the chapter every Bible reader half-remembers. Israel destroys the Canaanite king of Arad and names the place Hormah — the same place the previous generation was beaten back to, now renamed by a victory instead of a defeat. Then the food and the… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-20.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-20.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 ⚠ Thirty-eight years pass in the white space before v1, and the chapter opens by burying Miriam in a single clause — no mourning recorded, where Aaron will get thirty days by v29. ⭐ Then something no translation can carry: at v10 Moses turns on the people and shouts ha-morim… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-19.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-19.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 ⚠ The chapter everyone knows as the RED HEIFER, which this translation calls a red COW — because parah means a cow, because Hebrew's actual word for a heifer (eglah) is already spent on Genesis 15:9, and because the shelf is not on the famous side: four say heifer (KJV, ASV… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-18.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-18.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 ⚠ The chapter is addressed to AARON, and that is the finding: searched across the whole Hebrew Bible, God speaks directly to Aaron with Moses not in the sentence in exactly five verses, and THREE of them are here (vv1, 8, 20). The other sustained one is Leviticus 10:8, the… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-17.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-17.html Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 ⚠ Read the versification note before anything else: the Hebrew chapter has 28 verses and holds TWO episodes, so vv1-15 here are printed in every English Bible as Numbers 16:36-50, and vv16-28 as Numbers 17:1-13. Nothing is added or missing on either side — the same text is… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-16.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-16.html Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Korah's rebellion — and it opens on a broken sentence. ⚠ And Korah took, says the Hebrew, and never says what he took: the verb wants an object and there isn't one, and the seven versions checked here invent seven different solutions, from ‘took men’ to ‘became insolent’ to… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-15.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-15.html Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A law about arriving, addressed to the generation that has just been told it will never arrive: the words immediately following the sentence in the wilderness are ‘when you come into the land.’ Grain and wine become a fixed accompaniment to every animal offering, on a sliding… https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-14.html https://mistertranslation.com/numbers-14.html Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The report lands and the nation breaks. Israel weeps all night and says out loud the wish that will become its sentence — if only we had died in this wilderness — and then proposes, in a phrase found in exactly one other verse in the Bible, to give itself a head and go back… https://mistertranslation.com/exodus-40.html https://mistertranslation.com/exodus-40.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The book's final chapter, and it moves in two long strides: first a nine-chapter, nine-verse command — set up the tabernacle, place every object, anoint it all, clothe and consecrate Aaron and his sons — answered in a single line, 'Thus Moses did; according to everything… https://mistertranslation.com/exodus-39.html https://mistertranslation.com/exodus-39.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The priestly garments are sewn at last, exactly as commanded nine chapters earlier — every gemstone, every gold thread, every measurement matching Exodus 28 word for word — and the fulfillment says so, out loud, ten separate times: 'as Jehovah commanded Moses' closes verse… https://mistertranslation.com/exodus-38.html https://mistertranslation.com/exodus-38.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The bronze altar and the courtyard fence go up exactly as commanded seven chapters ago, and then the chapter pauses on one startling detail no instruction ever gave: the bronze laver was made 'from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the door of the tent of… https://mistertranslation.com/exodus-37.html https://mistertranslation.com/exodus-37.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The chapter narrows from a whole team to one man, named once: 'Bezalel made the ark' (v1), and every verse after simply says 'he made,' unnamed but understood, through the ark and its cherubim, the table, the golden lampstand, and the altar of incense. The lampstand repeats… https://mistertranslation.com/revelation-12.html https://mistertranslation.com/revelation-12.html Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A great sign in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, twelve stars crowning her head, crying out in the pain of childbirth -- while a second sign waits opposite her, a great red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, sweeping a third of the stars from… https://mistertranslation.com/revelation-11.html https://mistertranslation.com/revelation-11.html Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 John is handed a measuring reed and told to measure the temple -- but to leave the outer court unmeasured, handed over to be trampled for forty-two months, the same span two unnamed witnesses will spend prophesying in sackcloth, fire pouring from their mouths, power to shut…