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Abraham’s descendants were employed to write the Scriptures. Abraham was an Aramean. He was
born into a nation of people who spoke Aramaic. When Abraham was called to leave his father’s
house and travel to Canaan, he took the Aramaic language with him.

Over the course of centuries, isolated from their Aramean forebears, the language of the descendants
of Abraham began to change until it was unrecognizable to those who spoke Aramean. The language
the Hebrew people spoke was identified as their own language, being called Hebrew.

When the Jewish people were taken back to the land of their forebears, being led into captivity in
Babylon, they were once more introduced to Aramaic. In Babylon the Jews adopted the Aramaic
language and Alphabet, and upon their return to Judea they took Aramaic with them. Aramaic
remained the language of the Jewish people until the time of Christ, though it once more began to
differentiate from the Aramaic of other people groups. Thus, the language of the Jews in Christ’s day
is interchangeably called both Hebrew and Aramaic.

The vast majority of the Old Testament is written in Hebrew, with less than 2% of its text being
written originally in Aramaic. When Jerusalem and Judea fell under the rule of Greece, and later of
Rome, they were introduced to the Greek language. Many Jews were multi-lingual, speaking both
their native Hebrew tongue as well as Greek. This proved very helpful when the disciples of Christ
were commissioned to take the gospel to the nations. Since the Jews were familiar with Greek, and
it was the lingua franca of the Roman Empire, the New Testament was written in Greek and spread
rapidly.

We understand, therefore, that the Bible was NOT written in English. It was written in ancient
languages known unto the descendants of Abraham, the wandering Aramean.