Apéndice I. Carta de Edwin H. Palme a Miss Julie Moore.

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February 3, 1979
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Dear Hiss Julie,

Thank you for your letter and concern about th e fact that
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the NIV did not use the name Jehovah in the Old Testament.
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Here is why we did not: You are right that Jehovah is a

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sure way of throwing that down t he drain is t o translate,
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( '"'"''t\ .111\'-t' t4Jf1Crtl fcir example, Psalm 23 as, "Yahweh is my Shepherd." Immediately,
lh· ·••h •J.:h .d.)t-m•l'l.ll\ we would have translated for nothing. Nobody would have used
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it. Oh, maybe you anc a handiul otners. But a Crrr.i.s~:i.<u; rood
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~~bl~ lor trl) of the King J ames t <adition. It is far better to get two million
t.:. •Lh.uc1 N . I Clu~"·nt't LC"f to read it ·-- that is how many have boug ht it t o date -- and
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to follow the King James, than to have two t housand buy it and
miss the grand truth in the Bible on every page because t hey
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correct translation of Yahweh.
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Furthermore, we do not know if we should say Jahu o: Yahweh
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And we do cover ourselves in the preface .
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\c•min.Jt\ It was a hard decision, and many of our tran slators agree
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Cordially yours,
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