This page was migrated in July 2022 from my older website, biblicalambiguities.net.
29 July 2022
Young's Literal Translation is one of the most literal translations you can find in the wild world of the internet. It was released in 1862, with a revision in 1887. There are people, mostly inexperienced in the languages of the Bible, who use it and similar hyper-literal translations, under the often mistaken impression that increased literalism makes a Bible automatically more reliable. But Young's has some drawbacks, including a remarkably idiosyncratic approach to the "tenses" of Hebrew verbs.
Better than reading a literal translation is to learn to read the original languages. There is no substitute.
But, should you be curious, you can find Young's Literal online here, and in facsimile here (1898 edition).
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