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''Young's Literal Translation'' ('''YLT''') is a translation of the Bible into English . The translation was made by Robert Young , compiler of '' Young's Analytical Concordance To The Bible '' and ''Concise Critical Comments on the New Testament'', in 1862 . Young produced "Revised Versions" of the translation in 1887 and 1898 . TRANSLATION PHILOSOPHY The Literal Translation is unusual in that, as the name implies, it is a strictly literal word-for-word translation of the original Hebrew and Greek texts. The Preface to the Second Edition states, :If a translation gives a '' Present Tense '' when the original gives a '' Past '', or a ''past'' when it has a ''present''; a '' Perfect '' for a '' Future '', or a ''future'' for a ''perfect''; an ''a'' for a ''the'', or a ''the'' for an ''a''; an '' Imperative '' for a '' Subjunctive '', or a ''subjunctive'' for an ''imperative''; a '' Verb '' for a '' Noun '', or a ''noun'' for a ''verb'', it is clear that verbal inspiration is as much overlooked as if it had no existence. THE WORD OF GOD IS MADE VOID BY THE TRADITIONS OF MEN. in original. Therefore, Young uses the present tense in many places in which the King James Version and other sources use the past tense, particularly in narratives. For example, the Literal Translation's version of Genesis begins as follows: EXTERNAL LINK
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