Hebrew Bible
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Anonymous or composite
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~770,000 words · 3,661 passages
Cite this work
- APATanakh. (n.d.). The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text (JPS 1917) [Hebrew Bible]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/tanakh/the-holy-scriptures-according-to-the-masoretic-text-jps-1917
- MLATanakh. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text (JPS 1917) [Hebrew Bible]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/tanakh/the-holy-scriptures-according-to-the-masoretic-text-jps-1917.
- ChicagoTanakh. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text (JPS 1917) [Hebrew Bible]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/tanakh/the-holy-scriptures-according-to-the-masoretic-text-jps-1917.
Reference to the edition that SigPhi reproduces: SigPhi is its digital reproduction, not its publisher. The edition's year is not in the metadata (hence "n.d."), and the translator appears only when recorded.
What it is about
The whole Tanakh in English according to the Masoretic text, in the Jewish Publication Society version of 1917.
Context and history
It is the first complete English translation made by a committee of Jews for Jewish readers, and the difference one notices first is the order: the Tanakh runs Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim, and does not end where the Christian Old Testament ends. Anyone looking for chapters by the numbering of a Christian Bible will meet mismatches — not errors, but two traditions of dividing the text.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
9And God said- 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so. "And God called the dry land Earth, and the fthering together of the waters called 3 Seas; and God saw that it was good. nAnd God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so. KAnd the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after iljs^kind, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 13And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. 14And God said: 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; 15and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth J And it was so. 16And God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars. 17And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, Kand to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19And there was even- ing and there was morning, a fourth day.