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$\"Yada$ There has been a significant amount of discussion online in recent days about the way key terms are translated in Genesis 19, what their connotations were when they were written, and how that should impact the way they are rendered into contemporary vernacular. Daniel McClellan made the above\u00a0comic on the subject. See too the discussions on the blogs Remnant of Giants<\/a> and BLT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"