Sunday on Monday: Translations of the Bible
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In December the Church announced an update in the general handbook concerning translations of the bible. So as our Come, Follow Me year of studying the Old Testament gets into swing we invited a couple of bible scholars to share their thoughts on what we can gain from different translations and how they can help us gain appreciation for the ancient context in which the bible was written. For those that are still a little bit afraid of the Old Testament, let this new guidance help you find scriptures that bring you closer to God.
For more information on the Church's announcement:
Ben's article on bible translations:
https://rsc.byu.edu/vol-15-no-1-2014/why-bible-translations-differ-guide-perplexed
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Back in December, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints publicly announced that it has updated its general handbook to officially encourage the use of modern Bible translations alongside the King James Version for studying and teaching. How excited was I? |
| 0:16.6 | So which is the best translation to use? And why do these translations matter? |
| 0:21.9 | Well, I have invited two biblical scholars to help answer these questions and even show us places in the Bible that |
| 0:27.5 | these translations really make a difference. Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Sunday |
| 0:33.1 | on Monday podcast, a Deserate Bookshelf Plus original, brought to you by LDS Living, and it's where |
| 0:38.4 | we take the come follow me lesson for the week, and we really dig into the scriptures together, |
| 0:42.4 | and I'm your host, Tammy Usalak Hall. Now, if you want to know more about this podcast, just |
| 0:47.2 | simply go to LDSliving.com slash Sunday on Monday, and that's where you're going to find out |
| 0:52.0 | how to listen and enhance your gospel study. |
| 0:55.2 | Now, the best thing about the podcast and this specific bonus podcast is that I always get to |
| 1:00.0 | invite two friends to help me discuss and discover truths. And today, I am so thrilled to introduce |
| 1:05.9 | you to these guests because I felt like it was a long shot asking them to be on it, and they |
| 1:09.7 | agreed, and it made me so happy. |
| 1:11.7 | We have Ben Spackman and Joshua Sears. Hi, guys. Hi. Hello. Brill to be here. Oh, it's good to have you here. I really, it was a long shot. Like, I reached out to people and said, could we do this? Because it'd be so cool, because these guys know their stuff. And so thank you for saying yes tonight. |
| 1:28.9 | This is pretty cool. |
| 1:30.9 | You nervous? |
| 1:31.2 | Yeah. because it'd be so cool because these guys know their stuff. And so thank you for saying yes tonight. |
| 1:28.8 | This is pretty cool. |
| 1:30.9 | You nervous? |
| 1:31.2 | Yeah, I love talking about this stuff. |
| 1:34.3 | I've been excited about it for years. |
| 1:37.8 | Absolutely. |
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