Two Decades later... How and Why I Retranslate our Bible

This is what it looks like when I am retranslating the Holy Bible. Today I began Ezekiel (again, but it’s been awhile; I now just do this in my mind, because I’ve done it so much I just quickly see things, retranslate easily, as I read). Bear in mind I was born into this. So from birth I’ve studied the Bible non-stop, ever - many many sermons, many many Bible classes, many many College courses at private Christian universities, many many graduate College courses in each and every book in the Bible, INCLUDING Ezekiel. I’ve not only studied THAT much, I’ve WALKED with Jesus & God THAT much, from birth, decade after decade non-stop, ever.

That is what is called a “Priest” of Israel. It is just who you are. It is inside you. It’s in how you think, how you react, what you say, how you live, every thought, every breath. I’ve documented my path daily since 1985, through my books, poems, stories, and songs. I’ve dwelt in this path from birth. A priest. A High Priest. It simply IS.

The scriptures began matching my day-to-day life in 1998. Yes, supernaturally; God has an entire system set up for his priests that matches the daily movement of the stars, the heavens, I didn’t know that yet, it’s called the Mazzaroth. I just began to realize supernatural things were happening in my daily life and they matched whatever scripture I was translating, that day. I write about this in my main book, “Chapelgate, a Spiritual Memoir,” available on my website: www.ChapelgateAngel.com

That was the year, with a completed, fresh, 1998 Master of Religion completed, that I decided I still didn’t grasp what the Bible was saying. That was the year I diagrammed the entire Bible, by hand, myself, for 6 solid months. That was the year I then decided to move myself and my children to Orlando, from Austin (I then moved back in 2010, my family is here). I felt I needed to get away from my life so I could just focus on studying this, so I did.

I rented an apartment online, packed up everything I could stuff into my van, the first “Swan,” (I’m now on Swan #4), and moved myself and my three youngest children, of four, to Orlando. I had homeschooled my oldest son and he was accepted into our family University in Texas at the age of 16 (four generations). He now has a Masters in Computer Science, from those years, a lovely wife, and life.

Picture us in a fresh, beautiful, new Florida apartment, with zero furniture, just our favorite stuff. Picture me on a bedspread on the floor in my corner of the living room the online apartment brochure had called, the “Imagination Room.” Picture all my College Bible books stacked up by the walls, we brought LOTs of our books. Picture me with my freshly made cup of coffee steaming beside me. Picture me with my lovely white pen, my legal size stack of blank typing paper to draw my diagrams on. Picture me with the English King James Bible open to Genesis, my Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia purely in Hebrew Bible, and my Brown-Drivers-Briggs Lexicon.

Next to me on the floor is my Strong’s Bible Concordance open to “Barashit” the first word in Genesis 1:1 translated “In the Beginning,” my Greek Bibles and Greek Lexicon are waiting by my wall for me to get to Matthew 1:1 and all the books I had to buy and study for my Masters MAR degree are also there, close by. I’d later begin my Master of Divinity MDiv. I also completed.

I am drawing a line for each word in Genesis 1:1, In… line the… line beginning… line God… line created… line etc. I then wrote each word on each line. I then looked up by hand each word in the Strong’s Lexicon and wrote it under each word. I compared each English word to each Hebrew word. I noticed when the order didn’t match. I put the words back into order. I eliminated spaces. I ignored vowell pointing because it came centuries after the original, as did spaces. I overlapped AND looked up each and every Hebrew letter, two letters, three letters, because Hebrew words often have a 3 letter root and often a single letter has its own distinct meaning.

For example bet “B” means “to dwell as in a house. Barashit begins with “B.” Barashit ends with tav “T.” Bet tav BT means “house.” So, “to dwell in a house” is in “In the beginning,” seen this way. Ancient Biblical Hebrews put concepts WITHIN concepts. BT. House. To DWELL in a house. What house? This is the Torah. The house of Israel, of course, the subject of Genesis 1:1. Ancient Biblical ISRAELITE PRIESTS DWELLED in the House of Israel. It works just like I’ve described to you, how I’VE DWELT in the House of Israel (meaning true devotion to God and his Word, GENERATIONAL dwelling, as I’ve described my personal family history.)

Notice. The meaning of Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning…” just shifted. I kept going, on my stomach, drinking my non-stop cups of coffee.

I was also homeschooling my 3 children, (I had a sufficient, not massive, amount of $ from the hard work of my late, genius husband), buying bits of furniture as we went, taking them on adventures around Orlando, like lighthouses, museums, restaurants, alligator nature parks, the beach, and Disney, Typhoon Lagoon (my favorite, a waterpark that reminds me of Gilligan’s island, with a beautiful lazy river that winds through green paradise landscaping), etc.

This was my life for a decade (add my music adventures a couple of years later). Kids asleep? Hebrew Bible retranslation time. I kept my hours on our Calendar on our dining room wall. I’d write down everything we did daily. I wrote how many hours I spent each day retranslating the Bible. I did this for 12 years, this life. I wrote down 15,000. hours. I’ve probably done this another 15k, maybe two, by now because I never stop, not for a single day & that was 2 decades ago. I just say 15k. Ancient Biblical Hebrew Priests DWELT in the House of Israel. See.

I finished a Master of Divinity because my college contacted me that they had added one, did I want to enroll? Yes. So I was the 3rd woman to ever complete a MAR Masters of Religion AND THEN the 3rd woman to ever complete a Master of Divinity from my Southern Bible Belt fundamental Christianity Conservative University.

The University President had baptized me at the age of 11, almost 12, because my church, same denomination as the University, our college, at the time was an hour away from it. He came to teach our church at a Revival. My dad was an Elder. My parents invited him to our home for supper. My house was the twin of “Tara” in Gone with the Wind,” the beautiful 2 story white mansion with white columns across the front porch, a Southern Plantation white mansion on 60 acres. So we invited him to supper and he baptized me that same night at our week long church Revival. When I later grew up and enrolled there I walked to my classes in a Bible building with his name in large letters gracing the top. This was my world. Add a stubborn pony & barn (and books).

So. I am by nature a Priest. A High Priest. I retranslate the Bible. Why? Because I noticed there was a bet and a tav in the word Barashit, the first word in our Bible, being translated in English as “In the beginning” but containing the concept of “Dwelling in the head place of the house of Israel.” That’s why.

Here’s what that looks like in my daily routine, two decades later… xo

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Written August 8, 2025 at 2:54 pm

The noise you hear is my massage chair going, lol

Photos of my books and notes are in my main book, "Chapelgate, a Spiritual Memoir."