36 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



Hebrew scholars to-day that, in every passage of 

 Scripture where the Hebrew word nephesh or the 

 Greek word psyche is used, it should be translated 

 soul, and when nephesh chayah is used it should be 

 translated living soul. This is admitted by the 

 marginal reading found in many old English Bibles. 

 In Genesis 2 : 7, when the divine writer speaks of 

 Adam, the translation is correct, as it reads in the 

 Hebrew, nephesh chayah, which translated into 

 English means a living soul ; but there are nine more 

 passages in Genesis where the same Hebrew words 

 are used, but as they refer to lower animals the true 

 meaning has been perverted by the English transla- 

 tion. 



We read : " God said, Let the waters bring forth 

 abundantly the moving creature that hath a living 

 soul." The Hebrew text reads nephesh, soul, and 

 chayah, living, and the English version has it " life," 

 but on the margin of many Bibles "living soul." 



Again we read, " And God created great whales 

 and every living soul." Hebrew, nephesh chayah, 

 the English version, " living creature." Again we 

 read, " And God said, Let the earth bring forth the 

 living soul after its kind, cattle and creeping things 

 and beasts of the earth." This is the proper read- 



