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I was told that some of these pronunciations have changed over time, and the English versions are an attempt to approximate the pronunciation from ~2000 years ago, because some parts of the Christian bible were written in Greek.

I don’t know much about it though.




The New Testament was originally written in Greek.


Most modern translations of the old testament are based primarily on the Septuagint translation which was also written in (Koine) Greek.




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