THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
THE holy SCRIPTURES ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT A NEW TRANSLATION WITH THE AID OF PREVIOUS VERSIONS AND WITH CONSTANT CONSULTATION OF JEWISH AUTHORITIES PHILADELPHIA THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA 5677-1917 ii Copyright 1917, By The Jewish Publication Society of America All rights reserved The Lakeside Press, Chicago iii PREFACE The following is from the preface to the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 edition of the Hebrew Bible in English: The sacred task of translating the Word of God, as revealed to Israel through lawgiver, prophet, psalmist, and sage, began at an early date. According to an ancient rabbinic interpretation, Joshua had the Torah engraved upon the stones of the altar (Joshua 8:32) not in the original Hebrew alone, but in all the languages of mankind, which were held to be seventy, in order that all men might become acquainted with the words of the SCRIPTURES .
vii vote by correspondence and to a final vote at the last meeting of the Board, held in October-November, 1915. The present translation is the first for which a group of men representative of
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