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Saturday, November 22, 2014

 

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THE BIBLE MEANING OF "SOUL"


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Let us go further. In 32 passages, souls (nephesh) are spoken of as being KILLED BY MAN. Examples are:

Josh. 10:28: "Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, and all the souls (nephesh) that were therein..."

This is repeated in verses 30, 32, 35, 37, and 39.

Deut. 27:25: "Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person (nephesh--soul)."

Let us look particularly at Lev. 24:17-18. The Authorized Version reads:

"...he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death. And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast."

In the original, nephesh occurs here four times, as follows:

"He that smiteth the nephesh (soul) of a man, shall surely be put to death. And he that smiteth the nephesh (soul) of a beast shall make it good; nephesh for nephesh."

Here again the translators have, by inconsistent and biassed translation, obscured another clear divine lesson in the meaning of nephesh, or "soul."


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