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Message:: [QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 5108568, member: 78949"]evelyb30, I did not get it - you mean that the Hebrew word which was translated in Greek as Genesis (beginning) and then entered English as it is, actually should be translated differently in Greek/English? In Russian it is translated as "Being" or "Existence" (Бытие́) which is different from Beginning. The same in Bulgarian. The translation in Bulgarian was made from sources in Greek as we adopted Christianity from Byzantian Empire in 864 A.D. and all religious books were translated in Cyrillic around that time (some tens of years later), so they have nothing to do with the English ones - I mean that they were translated independently, although probably from the same sources. The Kiev Russians were baptized 100 years later and used the same translations, so the names are identical in Bulgarian and in Russian.[/QUOTE]