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own flesh..." So they pulled him up and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites
for twenty shekels of silver.

Matthew 26:14-15
Then one of the twelve, named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests, and said, "What are you
willing to give me to deliver Him up to you?" And they weighed out to him thirty pieces of silver.

One of the greatest prophets of the Old Testament was Elijah. In the King James Bible, his name is
written in two different ways.

I Kings 17:22
And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah...
KJV

Matthew 11:14
And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
KJV

We observed earlier that the name of Joshua is in one place in the KJV Bible rendered as Jose. More
confusing still, the name of Joseph is rendered as Joses. It gets worse yet, for the prophet Jeremiah
has his name rendered three different ways in the KJV Bible. He is referred to as Jeremiah, Jeremias,
and Jeremy. This is horrible confusion.

As a minister appointed by Christ to serve as a teacher to His body, my desire is to make plain the
truths found in Scripture. Sadly, the translators of most English Bibles have not followed policies
that serve the same end. On the contrary, they have obscured the truth by following arbitrary and
inconsistent naming conventions.

There are some lesser known English translations of the Scriptures that follow consistent naming
conventions. One of these Bibles is called The Scriptures. It is published by the Institute for Scripture
Research, a ministry in South Africa. There are certain translation policies of The Scriptures that I
do not like, but I do appreciate the fact that they have chosen to render the names of Hebrew men
and women consistently in both the Old and New Testaments. Some of these names require an
adjustment for Bible readers who are accustomed to reading popular English Bibles, but they
preserve the link between individuals who bore the same name. Following are some examples of
these names in The Scriptures.

Ya’aqob for Jacob
Yehudah for Judah and Jude and Judas
Mosheh for Moses
Shemu’el for Samuel
Yeshayahu for Isaiah
Yirmeyahu for Jeremiah
Yehezqel for Ezekiel
Obadyah for Obadiah