Young's Literal Translation (YLT) is a translation of the Bible into English. The translation was made by Robert Young, author of Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible and Concise Critical Comments on the New Testament, in 1862. Young produced "Revised Versions" of the translation in 1887 and 1898. The efforts of translating the books of the Bible from the original languages it was written in has spanned for over two millenia. ... The Bible has been translated into many languages. ... A number of Old English Bible translations were prepared in mediaeval England, translations of parts of the Bible into the Old English language. ... Jump to: navigation, search Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit from the Gospel of Matthew. ... The age of Middle English was not a fertile time for Bible translations but saw the first major translation that of John Wyclif. ... 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Taverners Bible, more correctly called The Most Sacred Bible whiche is the holy scripture, conteyning the old and new testament, translated into English, and newly recognized with great diligence after most faythful exemplars by Rychard Taverner, is a minor revision of Matthews Bible edited by Richard Taverner and... The Great Bible was the first authorised edition of the Holy Bible in English, authorised by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. ... The Geneva Bible was a Protestant translation of the Holy Bible into English. ... The Bishops Bible was an English translation of the Holy Bible produced under the authority of the established Church of England in 1568. ... The Douai Bible, also known as the Rheims-Douai Bible or Douay-Rheims Bible, is a Catholic translation of the Holy Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English. ... Jump to: navigation, search The King James Version (KJV) is an English translation of the Holy Bible, commissioned for the benefit of the Church of England at the behest of King James I of England. ... There are many attempts to translate the Bible into modern English which is defined as the form of English in use after 1800. ... The Holy Bible in Modern English, commonly known as the Ferrar Fenton Bible, was one of the earliest translations of the Bible into modern English. ... Categories: Literature stubs | Bible versions and translations | Quakerism ... Charles Thompsons Translation is a very rare direct translation of the Greek Septuagint version of the Hebrew Scriptures. ... Noah Websters 1833 limited revision of the King James Bible focused mainly on replacing archaic words. ... The Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible, also called the Inspired Version of the Bible or the JST, is a version of the Bible dictated by Joseph Smith, Jr. ... This was the first complete Bible translation by a woman. ... The Revised Version (or English Revised Version) of the Bible is a late 19th-century British revision of the King James Version of 1611. ... The Standard American Edition, Revised Version, more commonly known as the American Standard Version (ASV), is a version of the Bible that was released in 1901. ... The Jewish Publication Society of America Version of the Jewish Bible (i. ... The Revised Standard Version (RSV) is an English translation of the Bible that was popular in the mid-20th century and posed a serious challenge to the King James Version (KJV) as the most popular Bible in English. ... The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT) is a modern-language translation of the Bible published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. ... The Jerusalem Bible is a Catholic translation of the Bible which first was introduced to the English-speaking public in 1966. ... Formally titled The Holy Bible from Ancient Eastern Manuscripts (ISBN 0060649232), the Lamsa Bible (which it is commonly called, after its editor, George M. Lamsa) first appeared in 1933. ... In 1970, the New American Bible (NAB) was first published. ... The New English Bible (NEB) is a Bible translation jointly produced in 1970 by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. ... The New American Standard Bible (NASB) an English translation of the Holy Bible. ... The New Jewish Publication Society of America Version of the Jewish Bible (i. ... The New International Version (NIV) is an English translation of the Christian Bible. ... The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) is a Catholic translation of the Bible published in 1985. ... The New King James Version (NKJV) is a modern Bible translation, published by Thomas Nelson, Inc. ... The Recovery Version The New Testament Recovery Version is an English translation of the New Testament of the Holy Bible by the so-called local churches. First published in 1985 by The Living Stream Ministry, the Recovery Version of the New Testament was created in response to the publishers of... The English Standard Version (ESV) is an English translation of the Holy Bible. ... The Holman Christian Standard Bible is an English-language Bible translation, first published with the complete Old and New Testaments in March 2004. ... The Anchor Bible Series is a scholarly and commercial co-venture that has been setting a high standard since 1956, when individual volumes of the series began publication. ... The NET Bible ® (acronym for New English Translation) is a free, on-line English translation of the Bible, funded by the Biblical Studies Foundation. ... The World English Bible (also known as WEB) is a public domain translation of the Bible that is currently in draft form. ... The Orthodox Study Bible is a translation of the Christian Bible currently in production by the Orthodox Church. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Bible (sometimes The Book, Good Book, Word of God, or Scripture), from Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, plural of βιβλιον, biblion, book, originally a diminutive of βιβλος, biblos, which in turn is derived from βυβλος—byblos, meaning papyrus, from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Robert Young may refer to several different people: Robert Young (politician) (1834–1904), New Brunswick politician and businessman Robert Young (Biblical scholar), author of Youngs Literal Translation of the Bible Robert Young (actor) Robert Young (director), movie and television director Robert Young (linguist), co-author of the Analytical Lexicon... 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Translation Philosophy

The Literal Translation is unusual in that, as the name implies, it is a strictly literal word-for-word translation of the original Hebrew and Greek texts. The Preface to the Second Edition states, Jump to: navigation, search Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by 6 million people mainly in Israel, parts of the Palestinian territories, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. ...

If a translation gives a present tense when the original gives a past, or a past when it has a present; a perfect for a future, or a future for a perfect; an a for a the, or a the for an a; an imperative for a subjunctive, or a subjunctive for an imperative; a verb for a noun, or a noun for a verb, it is clear that verbal inspiration is as much overlooked as if it had no existence. THE WORD OF GOD IS MADE VOID BY THE TRADITIONS OF MEN. [Emphases in original.]

Therefore, Young uses the present tense in many places in which the King James Version and other sources use the past tense, particularly in narratives. For example, the Literal Translation's version of Genesis begins as follows: The present tense is the tense (form of a verb) that is often used to express: Action at the present time A state of being A habitual action An occurrence in the near future An action that occurred in the past and continues up to the present // English present tense... The past tense is a verb tense expressing action, activity, state or being in the past. ... The perfect tenses are verb tenses showing actions completed at or before a specific time. ... In linguistics, a future tense is a verb form that marks the event described by a verb as not having happened yet, but expected to in the future. ... In linguistics, many grammars have the concept of grammatical mood, which describes the relationship of a verb with reality and intent. ... The subjunctive mood (sometimes referred to as the conjunctive mood) is a grammatical mood of the verb that is subjective, from the persons viewpoint, that expresses wishes, commands (in subordinate clauses), emotion, possibility, judgement, necessity and statements that are contrary to fact. ... Jump to: navigation, search A verb is a part of speech that usually denotes action (bring, read), occurrence (decompose, glitter), or a state of being (exist, stand). Depending on the language, a verb may vary in form according to many factors, possibly including its tense, aspect, mood and voice. ... A noun, or noun substantive, is a word or phrase that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality. ... This page is about the version of the Bible; for the Harvey Danger album, see King James Version (album). ... Jump to: navigation, search Genesis (Greek: Γένεσις, having the meanings of birth, creation, cause, beginning, source and origin), also called The First Book of Moses, is the first book of Torah (five books of Moses), and is the first book of the Tanakh, part of the Hebrew Bible; it is also...

1	In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth —
2	the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness [is] on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,
3	and God saith, 'Let light be;' and light is.
4	And God seeth the light that [it is] good, and God separateth between the light and the darkness,
5	and God calleth to the light 'Day,' and to the darkness He hath called 'Night;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning — day one.
6	And God saith, 'Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.'
7	And God maketh the expanse, and it separateth between the waters which [are] under the expanse, and the waters which [are] above the expanse: and it is so.
8	And God calleth to the expanse 'Heavens;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning — day second.
9	And God saith, 'Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so.
10	And God calleth to the dry land `Earth,' and to the collection of the waters He hath called 'Seas;' and God seeth that [it is] good.
11	And God saith, 'Let the earth yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed [is] in itself) making fruit after its kind, on the earth:' and it is so.
12	And the earth bringeth forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed [is] in itself) after its kind; and God seeth that [it is] good;
13	and there is an evening, and there is a morning — day third.

External link

• Young's Literal Translation, complete text online