
A Hebrew - English Bible
According to the Masoretic Text
and the JPS 1917 Edition

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The JPS Bible for the Palm Pilot (English only) at
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/pdbjps.htm


Contents in Original Hebrew Bible Order:

Torah - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

Prophets - Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel,
Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah,
Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

Writings - Chronicles, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Song of Songs,
Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Esther, Daniel, Ezra / Nehemiah

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Preface to the JPS 1917 Edition


The English text in this HTML edition of the Hebrew Bible is based on
the text-format transcription by Larry Nelson (Box 2083, Rialto, CA
92376 USA, nelsonlarry@juno.com) as found on the Internet in differing
copies. In addition to converting his text to HTML, we did correct a
few typographical errors, based mostly on comparing the various text
versions we found, and took out all of the paragraph marks (), which
were not based on the Hebrew original. We have added signs for the
paragraphs found in the original Hebrew: In the poetical books of
Psalms, Job (aside from the beginning and end), and Proverbs, each
verse normallly starts on a new line; where there is a new line within
a verse, we added {N}, and when there is a blank line, we added {P}.
In the rest of the books, we added {S} for setumah (open space within
a line) and {P} for petuHah (new paragraph on new line) according to
our Hebrew Bible). We have not tried to reproduce the complex
structure of the special songs such as in Exodus 15 and Deuteronomy
32, as we do not think that that would make sense in English.

The Masoretic Hebrew Bible with vowels is our edition based on the
Aleppo Codex and other ancient manuscripts close to it

This HTML version is readable in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or
later on Win9x or later with Hebrew Support Package installed
(available from Windows Update)

