There is some documentation on how all of this wording got screwed up in the Writings of the Apostles. I think this is probably one of the biggest problems in the church today. There arose in Alexandria a Greek translation of the Bible called a Septuagint. 'Septuagint' means 'seventy elders.' Now this translation gets its name from the legend of its origins. King Ptolemy the Second of Philadelphius reigned from 283 to 246 B.C.E. and established a Library in Alexandria.

What he wanted to do in Alexandria was to have all the wisdom of all of the nations translated into the Greek tongue and placed in his Library. He was informed that he must include a copy of the sacred writings of the Jews. He sent away to the high priest in Jerusalem and the high priest was put under tremendous pressure. The Jews did not want to do anything in Greek or for the Greeks. Remember, the Greeks didn't make anyone take over their religion, the Greeks melded people in like today's New Agers. They were Hellenists and whether a person was Christian or Catholic or Protestant or Jewish or Muslim, as far as the Greeks were concerned, everyone was one.

So, when Ptolemy informed the high priest that he wanted to have the Hebrew Bible translated into Greek, the high priest sent him 70 of the finest sages in Israel who knew Greek. But, before he sent them, he learned what tactics Ptolemy used when sages from other lands translated their holy books into Greek. The priest learned that Ptolemy always asked to have numbers of people come to do the translating. And, that when they arrived, Ptolemy separated them into separate rooms, similar to cells. Their physical needs were met and they were given supplies but there was no contact between them so that there could be no possibility of collaboration for the purpose of perverting the translation.

The Jews were very, very against translating their Bible into Greek. They wanted it to stay esoterically Hebrew because in Greek, it wouldn't have been the same Torah. So, these 70 sages who knew Greek rehearsed exactly what they would do. They agreed upon what key words they would change so that instead of making a mockery of the Torah, their translation wouldn't even be the Torah.

Now when they arrived in Egypt, just as they expected, Ptolemy locked each of them in a cell with a copy of the Hebrew Scriptures, pens, and blank paper. He provided for all their needs, but they were not allowed to leave their cells until they had finished the complete translation. After seventy days, the elders had completed their work. (Now, 70, by the way, is the number of the nations, the Goyim. Remember when G-d separated them in Nimrod's time, at the Tower of Babel?) When the 70 manuscripts were compared, they were alike word for word. This legendary story is found in the Letter of Aristeaf.

Please understand that the Septuagint was the work of many hands and was deliberately mistranslated by those who translated it. In fact, Rabbi Akiva, the greatest Jewish sage of the second century, was so disturbed by the inaccuracy of the Septuagint and how it had come into usage by the Jews in the Hellenistic world who had forgotten Hebrew, he wanted Aquilla, a gentile convert, to compose a more literal translation into Greek. Aquilla's translation is now lost, by the way, but this Septuagint has remained and is bad news. One of the most wrongly translated words was the word "Torah". It was translated in the Greek translation as "Law". However, the word "Torah" means either "teaching" or "the Word." G-d and His Word are one. The word for law is Halacha. Now does the word "Halacha" - sound like the word "Torah?" The law of sin and death is the Halacha of sin and death and that's what Yeshua came to save us from - the law of sin and death. Not the Torah. Not the Word of the Torah, not G-d's Word.

Yeshua said, "Man does not live by bread alone but by every single Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of G-d." So, if man does not live by bread alone but by every single Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of G-d, how can we have been saved from the Law, how could we have been made free from the Law unless it was some other law and this has nothing to do with Torah?