James Arlandson today takes on the verse about Jesus and the sword, so I would like to take up a biblical verse of my own: the Sixth Commandment. One of the oldest pieces of political correctness, still spun today, is the King James Bible translation of sixth of the Ten Commandments as "Thou Shalt Not Kill." In fact, the correct translation of the passage is "Thou Shalt Not Murder." The Illustrated Jerusalem Bible Hebrew—English, on page 166, has for the Sixth Commandment, in Exodus 20:13, "Lo Tirsach" (imperative case: "No Kill", Hebrew using fewer words to express thoughts than does English). This is from the verb "lirtzach," to murder (infinitive) or "rotzach" (1st—3rd person singular), although the English translation in this Old Testament is "Thou Shalt Not Kill. It is not thou shall not kill (harog=kill, 1st—3rd person singular in Hebrew). If you go to the Judaism 101 website, it states the Sixth Commandment as Thou Shall Not Murder. The Signet...(Read Full Post)