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The “New World Translation”—Scholarly and HonestThe Watchtower—1991 | March 1
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At John 1:1 the New World Translation reads: “The Word was a god.”
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The “New World Translation”—Scholarly and HonestThe Watchtower—1991 | March 1
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Five German Bible translators likewise use the term “a god” in that verse.b At least 13 others have used expressions such as “of divine kind” or “godlike kind.”
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The “New World Translation”—Scholarly and HonestThe Watchtower—1991 | March 1
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b Jürgen Becker, Jeremias Felbinger, Oskar Holtzmann, Friedrich Rittelmeyer, and Siegfried Schulz. Emil Bock says, “a divine being.” See also the English translations Today’s English Version, The New English Bible, Moffatt, Goodspeed.
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