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From: rap@oliven.UUCP (Robert A. Pease)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Sodom and "knowing"
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Date: Sat, 23-Mar-85 19:41:39 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 23 19:41:39 1985
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>> P.S. The word "know" in the earlier English translations used in
>> this fashion usually means sexual relations.  [BOB BROWN]
>
>I would assume that in Scott Deerwester's New International Version (NIV)
>translation, what was called "the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil" is
>now "the Tree of Sex of Good and Evil".  Since it would seem that knowing
>translates directly into sex in that translation, regardless of the original
>Hebrew.
>-- 
>Otology recapitulates phonology.
>					Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr

Thats why he didn't want us to partake of it!

      (I shouldn't have said that.:-)

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					Robert A. Pease
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