Did 2,000 Years of Translators Get It Wrong?

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is first day of the week a
mistranslation of the greek phrase
miatone sebatone is it possible that
bible translators have been wrong for
2000 years or worse yet was there a
great conspiracy to alter the biblical
text hi my name is lex and welcome to
unlearn i want to dive deep into the
greek text and hebrew context on this
topic to see if we can figure out why
bible translators translated mia tone
sabaton as first day of the week i
studied greek in college but i am by no
means a greek scholar however i do
believe i know enough greek to
adequately speak on this topic some
people have recently questioned the
integrity of the translation first day
of the week and they argue that a better
translation would be one of the sabbaths
admit that if you isolate that phrase
from its context that it is possible to
come away with that translation but
proper context and culture are vital to
proper bible translation so let's look
at the context for some of these uses
for the phrase sabaton
to determine what it means in its
context the first place i want to look
is the resurrection of yeshua now when
the sabbath sabaton was passed mary
magdalene married the mother of james
and salome bought spices that they might
come and anoint him very early in the
morning on the first day of the week
miatone sebaton they came to the tomb
when the sun had risen if we translated
miatone sabaton to mean first of the
sabbaths this passage wouldn't make any
sense now when the sabbath was passed
mary magdalene married the mother of
james and salome bought spices that they
might come and anoint him very early in
the morning on the first of the sabbaths
they came to the tomb when the sun had
risen how could it be the first of the
sabbaths if the sabbath is past that
doesn't make sense
some people have suggested that mieton
sabaton refers to the counting of weeks
leading up to shavuot they say it should
be translated on the first sabbath
meaning the first sabbath following
passover
during the counting of seven sabbaths to
shavuot however that still doesn't make
sense in this context because if the
sabbath had passed and they came to the
tomb the next sabbath that's an entire
week between the death and resurrection
of yeshua which is impossible because he
rose on the third day for more
information about the third day please
watch my teaching titled finally
understanding the sign of jonah there's
another verse found in the book of acts
that shows this to be an impossible
translation as well but we sailed away
from philippi after the days of
unleavened bread and in five days joined
them at troas where we stayed seven days
now on the first day of the week when
the disciples came together to break
bread paul ready to depart the next day
spoke to them and continued his message
until midnight from the context of this
passage we see that 12 days had passed
after the feast of unleavened bread in
five days they joined them at troas and
they stayed there for seven days that's
12 days after the feast of unlimited
bread that means it's impossible for the
phrase miaton sabaton to refer to the
first sabbath in the counting to shavuot
because they would be at least two weeks
into the count by then the only possible
translation in this context is on the
first day of the week we also need to
understand that the jewish way of
reckoning a day was from sunset to
sunset so this event would have taken
place on saturday night after sunset
when the first day began and paul
preached until midnight because he was
leaving the following morning which
happened to be a sunday morning there's
a final place where sabaton is used to
refer to weak and it's obvious from the
context that it cannot be referring to
the sabbath day we find this in the
parable yeshua told about two men who
went to the temple to pray the pharisee
in this parable was bragging about his
righteousness and he said i fast twice a
week i give tithes of all that i possess
the greek phrase used here is de se tu
saba tu meaning twice a week obviously
the pharisee was not speaking about
fasting twice on the sabbath day it's
impossible for this verse to be
translated i fast twice on the sabbath
because that doesn't make sense you can
fast on the sabbath but you can't fast
twice on the sabbath the only way this
phrase makes sense is if we translate it
twice a week so we see here that
sabbatou can mean weak depending on the
context of how it's used understanding
the context and culture is vital to
bible translation the pagans named the
days of the week after whichever god was
to be venerated on that day for example
sunday was the sun god's day and monday
was the moon god's day during the first
century the jewish people didn't name
the days as the pagans did they counted
the days of the week in reference to the
sabbath thus miatone sabaton means the
first day with reference to the sabbath
i.e the first day following the sabbath
or as we would say the first day of the
week they counted the days like this one
of sabbath two of sabbath three of
sabbath four of sabbath five of sabbath
six of sabbath
sabbath greek scholars agree that the
word sabaton in these contexts is used
to denote a week or a period of seven
and does not refer to the sabbath day so
we see that the phrase miaton sabaton is
correctly translated as the first day of
the week if you want to learn more about
the sabbath then you might like this
video and if you want to understand the
sign of jonah being three days and three
nights then watch this video and
remember the truth will set you free
we'll see you next time