In season 2, episode 6, Eddie goes to confession and the father tells him "the sixth commandment declares 'thou shall not murder'"
Eddie retorts at him saying "I think you'll find the original Hebrew says 'though shall not kill', father"
I speak Hebrew, so I paused the show and said to it. "Nope, the word used in Hebrew is רֶצַח (retzach), which specifically means murder. The word for kill in Hebrew is רג (rog)"
Then the show does the yellow text thing showing the Hebrew with the incorrect translation underneath.
I unpaused, and the father replied "You seem pretty knowledgeable on the scripture, Eddie"
To which he replies "Knowledgeable enough to know that there's a contradiction relating to that deceleration" and then he quotes Ecclesiastes 3, which paraphrased says that there's a time to kill.
Only that in the very Hebrew that they quote you can see that the word used here is a different word, which correctly is translated as kill this time.
I think the show is trying to make a point of a biblical contradiction that doesn't exist, and it does this through a very egregious mistranslation of the 6th commandment.
What I find so odd about this is how obvious of a mistake it is... Whoever wrote this could have easily seen that the words are different.
Even without speaking Hebrew, one can easily see that the word used in the 6th commandment can't be found anywhere in the quoted verses.
I tried posting this to r/TheGentlemenTVShow but the mods didn't approve for some unspecified reason
Submitted October 16, 2026 at 04:19AM by The-IT https://ift.tt/DgB6cRl
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