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Is Moffatt's translation of Isaiah 43:5 the "more accurate" one?

Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west; I will say to the north, 'Give them up!' and to the south, 'Do not keep them back!' Bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth –

NKJV Isa 43:5-6

...from the far east will I bring your offspring, and from the far west I will gather you,

Moffatt Isa 43:5

The INC deems the Moffatt translation of Is. 43:5 the "more accurate" one because Moffatt connects the words "far" and "east" together (the Hebrew scriptures do not do so, which is even admitted by God's Messenger in the February 1957 edition Page 37), which to the INC designates the Philippines.

Pasugo, November 1995, page 12

Pasugo, February 1957, page 37

Our question to the INC is this: Why does the Moffatt version also read "far east" in Genesis 2:8 in reference to the Garden of Eden? Was the Garden of Eden in the Philippines?

...no one is licensed to interpret the Bible in his own way. We uphold the truth that the Bible has its own way of explaining and interpreting itself.

Pasugo, January 1970, page 1

Genesis 2, Moffatt version of the Bible

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