Putting His Money Where His Bad Translation Is

John Brown, a born-again Christian and founder of Zion Oil & Gas of Dallas, is using his Bible as a guide to finding oil in the Holy Land, according to this account.

“Most blessed of sons be Asher. Let him be favored by his brothers and let him
dip his foot in oil,” Brown quotes from Moses’s blessing to one of the 12 Tribes
of Israel in Deuteronomy 33:24.

Standing next to a 177-foot derrick at Kibbutz Maanit in northern Israel, Brown said the passage indicated there is oil lying beneath the biblical territory of the Tribe of Asher, where the agricultural community is located.

Unfortunately, the best translations of this passage render the word “olive oil” (an ancient symbol of prosperity), not black crude.

Perhaps God will bless his good intentions and faithfulness anyway.

--James Jewell