ACCURATE TRANSLATION
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Careful copies

Very old copies

Today we have Bibles written in modern languages. These were not the languages that the Bible writers used. 
The Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament in Greek. So what we have today are translations of what was originally written.

How can we be sure that what we have today is an accurate translation of what God originally said?

There are two ways we might be sure of this.

The first bibles were hand-written in the original languages of Hebrew and Greek.  If we could be sure that the first copies, and the copies made from them, were done very, very carefully, with no mistakes, that would help.

Another way of being sure of the accurate translation would be to get hold of a really old copy, as near to original as possible, and check if more modern versions were still the same as the first versions.

You can see how these two things were done by clicking the links below!

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