however in my reading of the subject it seems that attention to detail and a reading of the text in hebrew resolves any difficulty.i am reliant on others for this as i have not studied hebrew.

Maybe, but be clear: you are not following what the bible says, but what someone you trust claims the bible says. That's trusting people who may have any number of reasons to put a spin on it - its a very common human thing to do. For this at least - and actually the entire bible - your faith is with the translators at least as much as the text. And as I said, there is a real problem how the experts actually know what the original means. I came across a line from Shakespeare about a week ago, for example, which makes perfect sense now, but actually meant something quite different at the time. Meanings do change like that.