NEB/REB: when did Genesis become part of the NT (and the Apocrypha)?

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You're using the same sample pages from Genesis for both the OT, NT and Apocrypha volumes...

(And, btw, even for the OT it would be more interesting to see samples from e g Genesis, Isaiah and Psalms, rather than just the first 7 pages of Genesis.)

Dan Francis

Random passages from the REB…. I am not inclined to scan in my copy of the NEB for  showing samples… It is bolder and much more controversial a translation than the REB. The REB is labeled gender inclusive, but it is only moderately so. SEE Psalm 1 for the example. It starts gender inclusive but then falls back into male pronouns.

 

Deut. 6:1 (REB) ¶ These are the commandments, statutes, and laws which the Lord your God commanded me to teach you to observe in the land into which you are crossing to occupy it, a land flowing with milk and honey, 

Deut. 6:2 (REB) so that you may fear the Lord your God and keep all his statutes and commandments which I am giving you, both you, your children, and your descendants all your days, that you may enjoy long life. 

Deut. 6:3 (REB) If you listen, Israel, and are careful to observe them, you will prosper and increase greatly as the Lord the God of your forefathers promised you. 

Deut. 6:4 (REB) ¶ Hear, Israel: the Lord is our God, the Lord our one God; 

Deut. 6:5 (REB) and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 

Deut. 6:6 (REB) These commandments which I give you this day are to be remembered and taken to heart; 

Deut. 6:7 (REB) repeat them to your children, and speak of them both indoors and out of doors, when you lie down and when you get up. 

Deut. 6:8 (REB) Bind them as a sign on your hand and wear them as a pendant on your forehead; 

Deut. 6:9 (REB) write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates. 

 

Psa. 1:1 (REB) ¶ Happy is the one who does not take the counsel of the wicked for a guide, or follow the path that sinners tread, or take his seat in the company of scoffers. 

Psa. 1:2 (REB) His delight is in the law of the Lord; it is his meditation day and night. 

Psa. 1:3 (REB) He is like a tree planted beside water channels; it yields its fruit in season and its foliage never fades. So he too prospers in all he does. 

Psa. 1:4 (REB) The wicked are not like this; rather they are like chaff driven by the wind. 

Psa. 1:5 (REB) When judgement comes, therefore, they will not stand firm, nor will sinners in the assembly of the righteous. 

Psa. 1:6 (REB) The Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked is doomed. 

 

Psa. 23:0 (REB) ¶ [A psalm: for David] 

Psa. 23:1 (REB) The Lord is my shepherd; I lack for nothing. 

Psa. 23:2 (REB) He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me to water where I may rest; 

Psa. 23:3 (REB) he revives my spirit; for his name’s sake he guides me in the right paths. 

Psa. 23:4 (REB) Even were I to walk through a valley of deepest darkness I should fear no harm, for you are with me; your shepherd’s staff and crook afford me comfort. 

Psa. 23:5 (REB) You spread a table for me in the presence of my enemies; you have richly anointed my head with oil, and my cup brims over. 

Psa. 23:6 (REB) Goodness and love unfailing will follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord throughout the years to come. 

 

Mic. 6:1 (REB) ¶ Hear what the Lord is saying: Stand up and state your case before the mountains; let the hills hear your plea. 

Mic. 6:2 (REB) Hear the Lord’s case, you mountains; listen, you pillars that support the earth, for the Lord has a case against his people, and will argue it with Israel. 

Mic. 6:3 (REB) My people, what have I done to you? How have I wearied you? Bring your charges! 

Mic. 6:4 (REB) I brought you up from Egypt, I set you free from the land of slavery, I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead you. 

Mic. 6:5 (REB) My people, remember the plans devised by King Balak of Moab, and how Balaam son of Beor answered him; consider the crossing from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may know the victories of the Lord. 

Mic. 6:6 (REB) What shall I bring when I come before the Lord, when I bow before God on high? Am I to come before him with whole-offerings, with yearling calves? 

Mic. 6:7 (REB) Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams or ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I offer my eldest son for my wrongdoing, my child for the sin I have committed? 

Mic. 6:8 (REB) The Lord has told you mortals what is good, and what it is that the Lord requires of you: only to act justly, to love loyalty, to walk humbly with your God. 

 

Matt. 6:24 (REB) ¶ ‘No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the first and love the second, or he will be devoted to the first and despise the second. You cannot serve God and money. 

Matt. 6:25 (REB) ¶ ‘This is why I tell you not to be anxious about food and drink to keep you alive and about clothes to cover your body. Surely life is more than food, the body more than clothes. 

Matt. 6:26 (REB) Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow and reap and store in barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than the birds? 

Matt. 6:27 (REB) Can anxious thought add a single day to your life? 

Matt. 6:28 (REB) And why be anxious about clothes? Consider how the lilies grow in the fields; they do not work, they do not spin; 

Matt. 6:29 (REB) yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his splendour was not attired like one of them. 

Matt. 6:30 (REB) If that is how God clothes the grass in the fields, which is there today and tomorrow is thrown on the stove, will he not all the more clothe you? How little faith you have! 

Matt. 6:31 (REB) Do not ask anxiously, “What are we to eat? What are we to drink? What shall we wear?” 

Matt. 6:32 (REB) These are the things that occupy the minds of the heathen, but your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 

Matt. 6:33 (REB) Set your mind on God’s kingdom and his justice before everything else, and all the rest will come to you as well. 

Matt. 6:34 (REB) So do not be anxious about tomorrow; tomorrow will look after itself. Each day has troubles enough of its own. 

 

 

1Cor. 12:31 (REB) The higher gifts are those you should prize. ¶ But I can show you an even better way. 

1Cor. 13:1 (REB) ¶ I may speak in tongues of men or of angels, but if I have no love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 

1Cor. 13:2 (REB) I may have the gift of prophecy and the knowledge of every hidden truth; I may have faith enough to move mountains; but if I have no love, I am nothing. 

1Cor. 13:3 (REB) I may give all I possess to the needy, I may give my body to be burnt, but if I have no love, I gain nothing by it. 

1Cor. 13:4 (REB) ¶ Love is patient and kind. Love envies no one, is never boastful, never conceited, 

1Cor. 13:5 (REB) never rude; love is never selfish, never quick to take offence. Love keeps no score of wrongs, 

1Cor. 13:6 (REB) takes no pleasure in the sins of others, but delights in the truth. 

1Cor. 13:7 (REB) There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, its endurance. 

1Cor. 13:8 (REB) ¶ Love will never come to an end. Prophecies will cease; tongues of ecstasy will fall silent; knowledge will vanish. 

1Cor. 13:9 (REB) For our knowledge and our prophecy alike are partial, 

1Cor. 13:10 (REB) and the partial vanishes when wholeness comes. 

1Cor. 13:11 (REB) When I was a child I spoke like a child, thought like a child, reasoned like a child; but when I grew up I finished with childish things. 

1Cor. 13:12 (REB) At present we see only puzzling reflections in a mirror, but one day we shall see face to face. My knowledge now is partial; then it will be whole, like God’s knowledge of me. 

1Cor. 13:13 (REB) There are three things that last for ever: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of the three is love. 

1Cor. 14:1 (REB) ¶ Make love your aim; then be eager for the gifts of the Spirit, above all for prophecy. 

 

 

Rev. 11:12 (REB) A loud voice from heaven was heard saying to them, ‘Come up here!’ and they ascended to heaven in a cloud, in full view of their enemies. 

Rev. 11:13 (REB) At that moment there was a violent earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake; the rest, filled with fear, did homage to the God of heaven. 

Rev. 11:14 (REB) ¶ The second woe has now passed; but the third is soon to come. 

Rev. 11:15 (REB) ¶ Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet. Voices in heaven were heard crying aloud: ¶ ‘Sovereignty over the world has passed to our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign for ever!’ 

Rev. 11:16 (REB) The twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, prostrated themselves before him in adoration, 

Rev. 11:17 (REB) saying: ¶ ‘O Lord God, sovereign over all, you are and you were; we give you thanks because you have assumed full power and entered upon your reign. 

Rev. 11:18 (REB) The nations rose in wrath, but your day of wrath has come. Now is the time for the dead to be judged; now is the time for rewards to be given to your servants the prophets, to your own people, and to all who honour your name, both small and great; now is the time to destroy those who destroy the earth.’ 

Rev. 11:19 (REB) God’s sanctuary in heaven was opened, and within his sanctuary was seen the ark of his covenant. There came flashes of lightning and peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a violent hailstorm.