Word: thous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Translated directly from the Hebrew Masoretic text, the new Torah leaves out Elizabethan thees and thous, shuns traditional Biblical prose. Says Translator Orlinsky: "Our constant goal has been to render the original Hebrew as accurately as contemporary understanding will permit into modern, readable English, discarding the errors and the obstacles which, through misunderstanding or a misplaced traditionalism, have stood between modern man and a clear knowledge of God's Word...
...relish Walter explained that the extended the committee's mandate by unanimous consent last year. Acknowledging that HUAC's $327 thous- and budget was large, Walter said, "I just wanted to see if it would start something." Some of the slight opposition to the request came from a crowd of "penny-pinchers," he maintained...