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 # Decisions Concerning the ULB
-The following are decision that have been made concerning the ULB. This is not a comprehensive list, but it is here to remind current editors and to inform future editors of some important ones.
+The following are decision that have been made concerning the ULB. This is not a comprehensive list, but it is here to help those who might wonder why the ULB is as it is.
 ## ULB Style
 The following are details concerning the use of punctuation, capitalization, and vocabulary  in the ULB.
   * Quotation marks are used at the beginning and ending of direct speech. They are not used at the beginning of each verse, even though the speech may span several verses.
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   * All pronouns are lower case (except when beginning sentences and except for the first singular "I").
   * Spelling of names, in most cases, follows that used in the 2011 NIV. (This includes translating Ἑβραϊστί as "Aramaic (language)."
   * Where possible, the ULB editors have used common vocabulary that is easy to translate into another language.
-## Translation Glossaries
+  * Numbers are written as words if they have only one or two words ("three hundred," "thirty-five thousand"). Otherwise they are written as numerals. ("205," "1,005")
-A list of decisions as to how to translate some senses of the source language words and phrases into another language is called a translation glossary. Such a device is especially useful when more than one person works on the same project, because it helps keep everyone using the same English terms.
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-However, the sources often use some words to signal more than one sense, depending on context. A translation glossary is therefore a glossary of word senses, not a glossary of words. Check back often to this page, because these glossaries are likely to develop for the entire life of WA's translation resources project.
-Note that occasionally, the translation glossary's specified translation will not be suitable. As always, the text editors must remain in control of the decision-making process. The glossaries are to guide you as much as is possible. If you must depart from the glossary guidelines, do so and insert a note in the relevant glossary below to that effect.
-### Limited Translation Glossary for the ULB
-This first list concerns English words used in the ASV of both the Old and New Testaments. Preferred English renderings appear in bold type.
-  * *And* (sentence-initial): The ULB only rarely uses sentence-initial "And." Occurrences of sentence-initial "and" in the ASV usually occur where the ASV translates the preverbal Greek particle *kai* or the Hebrew *vav* in the *wayyiqtol* verb form. The Greek particle *kai* was usually a Hebraism on the part of the New Testament writers that reflected their understanding that the Hebrew *wayyiqtol* form contained the conjunctive *vav* "and." This, however, was a misunderstanding, for modern scholarship has shown that the *wayyiqtol* form was a frozen form with parallels in cognate Semitic languages; it was the preferred Hebrew verb form for signaling event verbs in Hebrew narration.
-  * *Shall*: "**will**" for future expressions in general;
-    *  "**should**", "**must**", or direct command for  obligation; 
-    *  "**shall**" in prophecies, blessings, curses, and other passages focusing on the speaker's intentionality, e.g., 
-      *  "Yahweh said, 'Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do...?'" (Genesis 18:17)
-      *  "A deliverer shall come to Zion,"
-      *  "every mountain and hill shall be made low."
-  * In speech introductions that use two verbs such as, "he answered and said," the ULB often retains this formula by using **both verbs**. This provides a model for languages which also separate the mode of speech from the act of speech.
-  * *Brethren*: "**brothers**" both when it refers only to men and when it refers to both men and women. 
-  * *Call* in the ASV usage "**call his name**": "**call him**" or "**name him**"
-  * *Call* in the formula of the type, "**he shall be called** the Son of the Most High" (Luke 1:32): The ULB keeps this formula, but be aware of the metaphor that is operative here: in this verse, Jesus will not only be called the Son of the Most High, but he will be the Son of the Most High.
-  * *Hand* indicating power or possession:  The ULB keeps this metaphor except when it would add confusion
-  * Expressions of the type, "he knew his wife" or "he went into his wife" are usually translated in the ULB as "**he lay with his wife**." The expressions "**had sexual relations**" and "**slept with**" are also used. 
-### Limited Translation Glossary for the Old Testament ULB
-This list concerns Hebrew words in the Old Testament. 
-  * *wayehi* "**It came about**" or "**It happened that**"
-  * *hinneh* "**look**," "**see**," "**see here**," or something else suitable for signaling that what immediately follows in direct reported speech is prominent. 
-    * Often "**behold**" in direct reported speech of God or his angel, especially if it lends more dignity in English to the divine words than "look" or "see," etc., would do.
-    * Also "**behold**" in narrative passages, including narrative that is embedded in direct speech, such as when Joseph tells his brothers what happened in his dreams)
-  * *adam*: "**mankind**," "**humanity**," and "**human beings**" when it refers to mankind in general
-  * *YHWH*: "**Yahweh**" 
-### Limited Translation Glossary for the New Testament ULB
-This list concerns Greek words in the New Testament. 
-  * *egeneto de*, *kai egeneto*: "**It came about**" (See: "Sentence-initial and" above).
-  * *idou*: "**look**," "**see**," "**see here**," or something else suitable for signaling that what immediately follows in direct reported speech is prominent. 
-    * Often "**behold**" in direct reported speech of God or his angel, especially if it lends more dignity in English to the divine words than "look" or "see," etc., would do.
-    * Also "**behold**" in narrative passages, including narrative that is embedded in direct speech.
-  * *Xristos*: "**Christ**" or "**the Christ**" (The definite article is appropriate if the term is being clearly used as a title; Paul often seems to use *Xristos* as a second name for Jesus, but at times he clearly uses it as a title).
-  * *Messias*: "**Messiah**" 
-  * *anthropos*: "**mankind**," "**humanity**," or "**human beings**" when it refers to humanity in general
-  * *nomikos*: "**expert in the law**" when it refers to a Jewish person rather than to the Jewish law itself and "**lawyer**" when it refers to an expert in some other kind of law.
-  * *grammateus*: "**scribe**" when it refers to a religious scribe 
-  * *hagioi*: "**holy people**" or "**God's holy people**" when it refers to people, 
-    *  "**holy ones**" or "**holy angels**" when it refers to heavenly beings 
-  * *euangelion*: "**gospel**” when it clearly refers to the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ.
-    * Otherwise, "**good news**."
-  * *elpis*: "**hope**" as a noun
-  * *elpizo*: "**hope**" as a verb or "set hope"
 ## Footnotes in the ULB
 The ULB has footnotes for the following kinds of issues:  
 * names that have multiple spellings