The Greek in Hebrews 1:12 that is translated as “like a cloak you will roll them up” in English is translated in Crimean Tatar as “like a carpet you will roll them up.” Andrei S. Desnitsky explains (in: The Bible Translator 2018, p. 233ff. ): “Sometimes we had to change the metaphor. Hebrews 1.12 says the following about the heavens and the earth: “’like a cloak you will roll them up.’ Rolling up cloaks is not a universal gesture, so the translation into Crimean Tatar (a Turkic language spoken on the Crimean peninsula) replaced it with the image of rolling up a carpet, which is something well known from everyday experience.”
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