title: "Table of Contents"
sections:
  - title: "Introduction"
    sections:
      - title: "Introduction to the Translation Manual"
        link: translate_manual
      - title: "Terms to Know"
        link: translate_terms
      - title: "What is Translation"
        link: translate_whatis
      - title: "More about Translation"
        link: translate_more
      - title: "Why We Translate the Bible"
        link: translate_why
      - title: "How to Aim Your Bible Translation"
        link: translate_aim
  - title: "Defining a Good Translation"
    sections:
      - title: "The Qualities of a Good Translation"
        link: guidelines_intro
        sections:
          - title: "Create Clear Translations"
            link: guidelines_clear
          - title: "Create Natural Translations"
            link: guidelines_natural
          - title: "Create Accurate Translations"
            link: guidelines_accurate
          - title: "Create Church-Approved Translations"
            link: guidelines_church_approved
          - title: "Create Faithful Translations"
            link: guidelines_faithful
            sections:
              - title: "Son of God and God the Father"
                link: guidelines_sonofgod
              - title: "Translating Son and Father"
                link: guidelines_sonofgodprinciples
          - title: "Create Authoritative Translations"
            link: guidelines_authoritative
          - title: "Create Historical Translations"
            link: guidelines_historical
          - title: "Create Equal Translations"
            link: guidelines_equal
          - title: "Create Collaborative Translations"
            link: guidelines_collaborative
          - title: "Create Ongoing Translations"
            link: guidelines_ongoing
  - title: "Meaning-Based Translation"
    sections:
      - title: "The Translation Process"
        link: translate_process
        sections:
          - title: "Discover the Meaning of the Text"
            link: translate_discover
          - title: "Re-telling the Meaning"
            link: translate_retell
      - title: "Form and Meaning"
        link: translate_fandm
        sections:
          - title: "The Importance of Form"
            link: translate_form
          - title: "Levels of Meaning"
            link: translate_levels
      - title: "Literal Translations"
        link: translate_literal
        sections:
          - title: "Word for Word Substitution"
            link: translate_wforw
          - title: "Problems with Literal Translations"
            link: translate_problem
      - title: "Meaning-Based Translations"
        link: translate_dynamic
        sections:
          - title: "Translate for Meaning"
            link: translate_tform
  - title: "Before Translating"
    sections:
      - title: "First Draft"
        link: first_draft
      - title: "Choosing a Translation Team"
        link: choose_team
        sections:
          - title: "Translator Qualifications"
            link: qualifications
      - title: "Choosing What to Translate"
        link: translation_difficulty
      - title: "Choosing a Source Text"
        link: translate_source_text
        sections:
          - title: "Copyrights, Licensing, and Source Texts"
            link: translate_source_licensing
          - title: "Source Texts and Version Numbers"
            link: translate_source_version
      - title: "Decisions for Writing Your Language"
        link: writing_decisions
        sections:
          - title: "Alphabet/Orthography"
            link: translate_alphabet
          - title: "Alphabet Development"
            link: translate_alphabet2
      - title: "File Formats"
        link: file_formats
  - title: "How to Start Translating"
    sections:
      - title: "MAST Core Concepts"
        link: mast
      - title: "Help with Translating"
        link: translate_help
  - title: "Unlocked Bible Text"
    sections:
      - title: "The Original and Source Languages"
        link: translate_original
      - title: "Original Manuscripts"
        link: translate_manuscripts
      - title: "Structure of the Bible"
        link: translate_bibleorg
      - title: "Chapter and Verse Numbers"
        link: translate_chapverse
      - title: "Unlocked Literal Bible (ULB) and Unlocked Dynamic Bible (UDB) Formatting Signals"
        link: translate_formatsignals
      - title: "How to Use the ULB and UDB when Translating the Bible"
        link: translate_useulbudb
  - title: "Use the translationHelps when Translating"
    sections:
      - title: "Notes with Links"
        link: resources_links
      - title: "Using the translationNotes"
        link: resources_types
        sections:
          - title: "Connecting Statement and General Information in the Notes"
            link: resources_connect
          - title: "Notes with Definitions"
            link: resources_def
          - title: "Notes that Explain"
            link: resources_eplain
          - title: "Notes with Synonyms and Equivalent Phrases"
            link: resources_synequi
          - title: "Notes with Alternate Translations (AT)"
            link: resources_alter
          - title: "Notes that Clarify the UDB Translation"
            link: resources_clarify
          - title: "Notes that have Alternate Meanings"
            link: resources_alterm
          - title: "Notes with Probable or Possible Meanings"
            link: resources_porp
          - title: "Notes that Identify Figures of Speech"
            link: resources_fofs
          - title: "Notes that Identify Indirect and Direct Quotes"
            link: resources_iordquote
          - title: "Notes for Long ULB Phrases"
            link: resources_long
          - title: "Using translationWords"
            link: resources_words
          - title: "Using translationQuestions"
            link: resources_questions
  - title: "Just-in-Time Learning Modules"
    sections:
      - title: "Figures of Speech"
        sections:
          - title: "Figures of Speech"
            link: figs_intro
          - title: "Apostrophe"
            link: figs_apostrophe
          - title: "Doublet"
            link: figs_doublet
          - title: "Euphemism"
            link: figs_euphemism
          - title: "Extended Metaphor"
            link: figs_exmetaphor
          - title: "Hendiadys"
            link: figs_hendiadys
          - title: "Hyperbole"
            link: figs_hyperbole
          - title: "Idiom"
            link: figs_idiom
          - title: "Irony"
            link: figs_irony
          - title: "Litotes"
            link: figs_litotes
          - title: "Merism"
            link: figs_merism
          - title: "Metaphor"
            link: figs_metaphor
          - title: "Metonymy"
            link: figs_metonymy
          - title: "Parallelism"
            link: figs_parallelism
          - title: "Personification"
            link: figs_personification
          - title: "Predictive Past"
            link: figs_pastforfuture
          - title: "Rhetorical Question"
            link: figs_rquestion
          - title: "Simile"
            link: figs_simile
          - title: "Synecdoche"
            link: figs_synecdoche
      - title: "Grammar"
        sections:
          - title: "Grammar Topics"
            link: figs_grammar
          - title: "Abstract Nouns"
            link: figs_abstractnouns
          - title: "Active or Passive"
            link: figs_activepassive
          - title: "Distinguishing versus Informing or Reminding"
            link: figs_distinguish
          - title: "Double Negatives"
            link: figs_doublenegatives
          - title: "Ellipsis"
            link: figs_ellipsis
          - title: "Forms of You"
            link: figs_you
          - title: "Forms of 'You' - Dual/Plural"
            link: figs_youdual
          - title: "Forms of 'You' - Singular"
            link: figs_yousingular
          - title: "Generic Noun Phrases"
            link: figs_genericnoun
          - title: "Go and Come"
            link: figs_go
          - title: "Nominal Adjectives"
            link: figs_nominaladj
          - title: "Order of Events"
            link: figs_events
          - title: "Parts of Speech"
            link: figs_partsofspeech
          - title: "Possession"
            link: figs_possession
          - title: "Verbs"
            link: figs_verbs
          - title: "When Masculine Words Include Women"
            link: figs_gendernotations
          - title: "Word Order"
            link: figs_order
      - title: "Pronouns"
        sections:
          - title: "Pronouns"
            link: figs_pronouns
          - title: "First, Second or Third Person"
            link: figs_123person
          - title: "Exclusive 'We'"
            link: figs_figs_exclusive
          - title: "Forms of 'You' - Formal or Informal"
            link: figs_youformal
          - title: "Forms of 'You' - Singular to a Crowd"
            link: figs_youcrowd
          - title: "Reflexive Pronouns"
            link: figs_rpronouns
          - title: "Pronouns - When to Use Them"
            link: writing_pronouns
      - title: "Sentences"
        sections:
          - title: "Sentence Structure"
            link: figs_sentences
          - title: "Information Structure"
            link: figs_infostructure
          - title: "Sentence Types"
            link: figs_sentencetypes
            sections:
              - title: "Statements - Other Uses"
                link: figs_declarative
              - title: "Imperatives - Other Uses"
                link: figs_imperative
              - title: "Exclamations"
                link: figs_exlamations
      - title: "Quotes"
        sections:
          - title: "Quotations and Quote Margins"
            link: writing_quotations
          - title: "Direct and Indirect Quotations"
            link: figs_quotations
          - title: "Quote Markings"
            link: figs_quotemarks
          - title: "Quotes within Quotes"
            link: figs_quotesinquotes
      - title: "Writing Styles (Discourse)"
        sections:
          - title: "Writing Styles"
            link: writing_intro
          - title: "Background Information"
            link: writing_background
          - title: "Connecting Words"
            link: writing_connectingwords
          - title: "End of Story"
            link: writing_endofstory
          - title: "Hypothetical Situations"
            link: figs_hypo
          - title: "Introduction of a New Event"
            link: writing_newevent
          - title: "Introduction of New and Old Participants"
            link: writing_participants
          - title: "Parables"
            link: figs_parables
          - title: "Poetry"
            link: writing_poetry
          - title: "Proverbs"
            link: writing_proverbs
          - title: "Symbolic Language"
            link: writing_symlanguage
          - title: "Symbolic Prophecy"
            link: writing_apocalypticwriting
      - title: "Translation Issues"
        sections:
          - title: "Textual Variants"
            link: translate_textvariants
          - title: "Verse Bridges"
            link: translate_versebridge
      - title: "Unknowns"
        sections:
          - title: "Translate Unknowns"
            link: translate_unknown
          - title: "Copy or Borrow Words"
            link: translate_transliterate
          - title: "How to Translate Names"
            link: translate_names
          - title: "Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information"
            link: figs_explicit
          - title: "Making Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information Explicit"
            link: figs_explicitinfo
          - title: "When to Keep Information Implicit"
            link: figs_extrainfo
          - title: "Biblical Distance"
            link: translate_bdistance
          - title: "Biblical Volume"
            link: translate_bvolume
          - title: "Biblical Weight"
            link: translate_bweight
          - title: "Biblical Money"
            link: translate_bmoney
          - title: "Hebrew Months"
            link: translate_hebrewmonths
          - title: "Numbers"
            link: translate_numbers
          - title: "Ordinal Numbers"
            link: translate_ordinal
          - title: "Fractions"
            link: translate_fraction
          - title: "Symbolic Action"
            link: translate_symaction
      - title: "Biblical Imagery"
        sections:
          - title: "Biblical Imagery"
            link: translate_bita
          - title: "Biblical Imagery - Common Metonymies"
            link: translate_bita_part2
          - title: "Biblical Imagery - Common Patterns"
            link: translate_bita_part1
            sections:
              - title: "Biblical Imagery - Animals"
                link: translate_bita_animals
              - title: "Biblical Imagery - Body Parts and Human Qualities"
                link: translate_bita_humanqualities
              - title: "Biblical Imagery - Farming"
                link: translate_bita_farming
              - title: "Biblical Imagery - Human Behavior"
                link: translate_bita_humanbehavior
              - title: "Biblical Imagery - Man-made Objects"
                link: translate_bita_manmade
              - title: "Biblical Imagery - Natural Phenomena"
                link: translate_bita_phenom
              - title: "Biblical Imagery - Plants"
                link: translate_bita_plants
          - title: "Biblical Imagery - Cultural Models"
            link: translate_bita_part3