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Given the phenomenon known in this country as ‘Chinese Whispers’,

it is unlikely that Abraham’s utterances would have survived intact

the transition from both Greek and Latin into English…

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The suspicion that for, at least, some passages

the King James Version (KJV)

used Hebrew texts as its source, arises.

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This suspicion is borne out when comparing

a modern day English/Hebrew Tanakh with the KJV…

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Save for the archaisms of the latter

and the odd technicality in the former,

the two translations are practically identical.

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But in one crucial aspect the KJV has the upper-hand,

not only does it retain the ‘Henni’ for all Abraham’s utterances

it italicises the phrase in each instance!

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Now, who could have been responsible for that?