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• {"n":"Genesis 1:14","s":"Let them be for signs, and for seasons. Moedim, the same word later naming Israel's appointed feasts.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=genesis-1-14","r":"Genesis 1:14","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads seasons, a reasonable general translation, but one that does not carry forward the word's more specific, later technical use for Israel's fixed festival dates."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"English seasons suggests spring, summer, fall, winter, a general climate cycle. The Hebrew word instead points toward scheduled appointments, the same word later used for Israel's specific festival calendar, closer to marking out a calendar of appointments than describing weather patterns."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Moedim, appointed times, is the same word Leviticus 23 uses repeatedly for the LORD's own appointed feasts, Passover, Pentecost, Tabernacles, and the rest. Its use here at creation's fourth day quietly establishes that the sun and moon's created purpose already included marking out the very calendar those later appointed festivals would run on, tying Israel's worship calendar back to the created order itself."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English seasons names a general climate pattern; it does not carry forward the specific, technical sense of scheduled, appointed occasions that moedim has throughout the rest of the Torah, so the link between creation's fourth day and Israel's later festival calendar disappears once the word becomes a generic English noun."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a word appears early in a book and recurs later as a technical or ritual term, read the early occurrence in light of the later one. Moedim at creation is not incidental vocabulary; it is the same word the Torah will use for its most structured religious calendar."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Seasons is not wrong, but it undersells the specific, later technical sense of moedim as scheduled sacred appointments. Appointed times keeps the link to Leviticus 23's festival calendar visible, a connection worth knowing even though seasons remains a defensible general translation."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05de\u05d5\u05b9\u05e2\u05b2\u05d3\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd moedim \u00b7 H4150"}],"src":["moedim as the Torah's technical term for appointed feasts: Leviticus 23:2, 4","This as moedim's first occurrence anywhere in the Bible"]}