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Spanish Bible

Wed, 03/11/2009 - 20:46 — Hazel Frost

I have set myself a challenge this year to read through the Bible in Spanish. It is doing me good for at least three reasons.

One, I am encouraged that I can actually read and understand the Bible in Spanish these days; currently ploughing towards the end of Leviticus at the moment.

Two, it is a good source of new vocabulary; my latest word is "degollar", which means "slaughter" and appears a lot of times in Leviticus. Unfortunately I haven't yet found a use for it in my every day life.

Three, it makes me approach the text afresh, and read it properly as if for the first time, so I am seeing things that I hadn't seen before. Like all the verses in Leviticus 15 about sex and ceremonial uncleanness and washing with water. Call me un-devout, but my first thought was "imagine knowing which days your neighbours have sex on according to who has got their washing hanging out".

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Tue, 03/24/2009 - 00:28 — Daniel (not verified)

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How refreshing to be able to read your blogs as you do the Lords work in a place that is not what we are used to. please tell me how long it took you to learn to speak Spanish. I speak it well enough to communicate but I wonder how long it would take my wife to learn. We are strongly considering going to South America as missionaries with the 1st Baptist church.
Thank you
Daniel

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