How Should the First Verse in the Bible Be Translated?

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There is a big push on to alter the traditional translation of the first verse in the bible. Here's the history behind that effort and the textual peg they hang the effort on. How should the first verse in the bible be translated? Here's a Christ-centered view of the text...

Link to Amazon page of "Early Genesis, the Revealed Cosmology" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XRLDYJB

Here is a link to Shlomo Karni's take on the matter- how it can be translated "In the beginning" without turning into a construct and also allowable within Hebrew grammar https://www.torahmusings.com/2011/04/its-all-in-a-word-on-translating-genesis-11-3/?fbclid=IwAR3GFPHI2Bo7lZXBASJ-7LcYNgiL_pGi6diGydG48mwxiNNYPSOZJec3jUI_aem_AZSzT6Vzr5-HYZyrSOvRfoCoWqGogvV_ielGUaOeWxzvuQG4a3SMcuPhXp17GVjwJhiKqkGm8IE8_mH5nsll1rRi#:~:text=%20or%20a%20gerund%20%28creating%29%2C%20In%20the%20beginning,vowels%20in%20the%20stem%20bet-resh-aleph%20of%20the%20text

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