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Father Stephen holds a PhD in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Verse 6, so the Lord said to to Kane, why are you extremely sorrowful and why is your countenance

fallen?

Did you not sin even though you brought it rightly but did not divide it rightly?

Be still, his recourse shall be to you and you shall rule over him.

So, yes. So they were trying to translate the Greek here. And the Greek here kind of makes hash of

the Hebrew. And that's because there are some really weird obscure words in the Hebrew here.

This is where the people start sending the angry emails once again to Father Andrew Damik

at ancient faith, because I imply that maybe there's some problem with a Greek version of the Old Testament.

But, yeah.

So, um, version of the Old Testament. But, yeah. So what this says in the original Hebrew, which is clear, but it uses a bunch of archaic words, is

the why are you extremely sorrowful and why is your countenance

fallen thing is pretty straightforward accurate right so why are you downcast

why are you set why are you upset verse seven is more like in the Hebrew if you do

good will you not also be accepted?

Right.

The Greek is the way they translated it.

I'll say this.

The way the Orthodox study Bible translators translated the Greek here is trying to get at what I was saying.

Even though you brought it rightly, the idea is you did the right procedure, but you didn't.

And the dividing thing there is the same kind of idea as rightly dividing the word of truth, right?

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