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title = "The Bible the Canon Quotes, Translated"
description = "The Wheel of Heaven library now has its own translation of 87 more biblical chapters that Raël's first three books cite, each linked from the canon's citations."
date = 2026-11-02
template = "news-page.html"

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event_date = 2026-11-01
event_type = "announcement"
claim_type = "direct"
editorial_pass = "2026-05"
summary = "On November 1, 2026, the Wheel of Heaven library published its own English translation of 87 biblical chapters cited in The Book Which Tells the Truth, Extra-Terrestrials Took Me to Their Planet and Let's Welcome the Extra-Terrestrials: 2,482 verses in 22 books, sixteen of them new to the library. The canon's citations of these chapters now link to the verses they cite. A final check found eleven more cited chapters; they were translated and published the next day, so every biblical chapter the three books cite is now translated: 98 in all."
canon_links = [
    { title = "The Book Which Tells the Truth", path = "/library/the-book-which-tells-the-truth/" },
    { title = "Reference corpus of the Raëlian canon", path = "/wiki/reference-corpus-of-the-raelian-canon/" },
    { title = "Hebrew Bible", path = "/wiki/hebrew-bible/" },
    { title = "Elohim", path = "/wiki/elohim/" }
]
sources = [
    { title = "Psalms: the Wheel of Heaven translation", url = "https://www.wheelofheaven.world/library/psalms-woh/", outlet = "Wheel of Heaven Library", date = "2026-11-01" },
    { title = "Isaiah: the Wheel of Heaven translation", url = "https://www.wheelofheaven.world/library/isaiah-woh/", outlet = "Wheel of Heaven Library", date = "2026-11-01" },
    { title = "Source-Text Translation methodology", url = "https://docs.wheelofheaven.world/contributing/content/source-text-translation/", outlet = "Wheel of Heaven Docs", date = "2026-11-01" }
]
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## What happened

On November 1, 2026, the Wheel of Heaven library published its own English
translation of 87 biblical chapters that Raël's first three books cite. They
come to 2,482 verses in 22 books: Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges,
1 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Jeremiah,
Ezekiel, Amos, Jonah, Zephaniah, Zechariah, the Wisdom of Solomon, Matthew and
Revelation. Sixteen of these books are new to the library.

Each chapter was translated whole, not only the verses the canon quotes, and
from the original language: the Masoretic Hebrew for the Hebrew Bible, the
Greek of the Septuagint for the Wisdom of Solomon, and the Greek New Testament
for Matthew and Revelation. Every chapter went through the project's
translation pipeline, from draft to editor and independent reviewer, and was
signed off by hand before publication. A shared glossary keeps one rendering
for one word across the books, and each choice is recorded with its reasons.

The canon's citations are now links. In *The Book Which Tells the Truth* and
the other two books, a citation such as "(Exodus, III-2)" opens the verse it
cites in the new translation.

## Why it matters for the canon

*The Book Which Tells the Truth* is, among other things, a close reading of
the Bible. It quotes chapter and verse, and its argument turns on words that
later translation changed, beginning with the plural *Elohim* that became a
singular "God". For most of these chapters, a reader who wanted to check that
reading had to rely on translations made within the very tradition the canon
corrects.

The new translation gives that reader the text on its own terms. It renders
the Hebrew plainly: Psalm 8:6 reads "a little less than Elohim", where the
Greek and the King James Version have "angels"; Elijah "went up in the
whirlwind to the heavens" (2 Kings 2:11); Ezekiel's wheels look "as if a wheel
were within a wheel" (Ezekiel 1:16); and in Zechariah's vision two winged
women lift the ephah "between the earth and the skies" (Zechariah 5:9). The
canon's own readings of these passages appear beside the traditional and
critical ones, in notes marked as Wheel of Heaven readings. The translated
line itself makes no claim the source does not make.

## Update: the last eleven chapters

A final check of the citations turned up eleven cited chapters that the
program's first list missed: Leviticus 17 and 25, Numbers 11, Joshua 3,
Judges 7, 2 Samuel 6, Micah 5, Tobit 12, Wisdom 6, Revelation 5 and
1 Thessalonians 5. They went through the same Translator, Editor, Reviewer
and sign-off pipeline and were published on November 2, 2026. Five books are
new to the library: Leviticus, 2 Samuel, Micah, Tobit and 1 Thessalonians.
Every biblical chapter cited in the three books is now translated: 98
chapters. The
[Reference corpus of the Raëlian canon](/wiki/reference-corpus-of-the-raelian-canon/)
lists every cited chapter, book by book, with a link to its translation.