BesorahWhat’s included
The texts
The Tanakh, the Septuagint and Apocrypha, the New Testament in Greek and Hebrew, and the Targumim — each with English, in one order and one numbering.
One order, one numbering
The traditional Jewish order. Torah, Nevi’im, Ketuvim, then the New Testament, with the books found only in Greek gathered in an Apocrypha section. A book appears once; its original, its English and its other witnesses are different texts of it.
Hebrew numbering is canonical. Where the Hebrew counts a Psalm’s superscription as verse 1, so does Besorah; Joel and Malachi divide as they do in Hebrew. The English and Greek texts are aligned to that numbering verse by verse — including where the Septuagint orders or divides things differently (the Psalms, Jeremiah, Exodus 35–40). Switch between Hebrew and Greek and you land on the matching verse.
Nothing is rewritten. English translations appear as published (only their verse boundaries are moved onto the Hebrew numbering). The Hebrew and Greek appear as their editions give them: vowel points are kept, cantillation marks are not shown.
The English. Beside the Hebrew Tanakh and the Greek and Hebrew New Testament is the World Messianic Bible (WMB), a modern public-domain translation. The Septuagint carries Brenton’s English; the books found only in Greek offer the World English Bible, or Brenton’s, as you choose.
The whole Bible, plus the Apocrypha
Two volumes on the shelf, four original-language texts, and the Septuagint’s extra books — each original paired with its English, sharing one numbering so lines always match up.
Tanakh
Torah → Nevi’im → Ketuvim in the traditional Jewish order — Genesis to Chronicles, 39 books.
- Hebrew · Westminster Leningrad CodexVowel points kept, cantillation stripped for easy reading
- Septuagint · Brenton’s Greek & EnglishAligned verse-by-verse to the Hebrew numbering
- English · World Messianic BibleRe-versified onto the Hebrew numbering so it lines up
- Targumim · Onkelos, Pseudo-Jonathan & Jonathan on IsaiahAramaic and English (Etheridge), beside the book they translate
New Covenant
Matthew to Revelation — all 27 books, in two original-language editions.
- Greek · SBL Greek New TestamentCritical text with its apparatus sigla
- Hebrew · Salkinson–GinsburgThe classic Hebrew translation of the New Testament
- English · World Messianic BibleTravels with each original
Apocrypha
The books found only in the Septuagint, in their own Apocrypha section at the end of the Tanakh index — Greek with Brenton’s English.
- Wisdom · Sirach · Baruch
- Tobit · Judith
- Maccabees · 1 Esdras
- Bel · Susanna · Prayer of Manasseh …and the rest of the Septuagint canon
Hebrew numbering is canonical. The Greek texts are mapped to it — including the Psalms’ different numbering and the Jeremiah chapter reordering — so switching between Hebrew and Septuagint always lands you in the right place.
Each text, and where it comes from
Every text is public domain or openly licensed. The full list — including the study data — is on the credits page.
| Text | Licence |
|---|---|
| Westminster Leningrad Codex (Hebrew) | Public domain |
| Brenton Septuagint (Greek & English) | Public domain |
| Jastrow’s Dictionary of the Targumim and BDB’s Aramaic lexicon (Aramaic lemmas and meanings), via Sefaria | Public domain |
| World English Bible (Deuterocanon; modern English for the Apocrypha) | Public domain |
| World Messianic BibleText unchanged; verse boundaries re-versified onto the Hebrew numbering. Not endorsed by the translators. | Public domain (“World Messianic Bible” is a trademark of its publishers) |
| SBL Greek New TestamentAdapted: cleaned, tagged and re-flowed for this reader. Licence: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | CC BY 4.0 · © 2010 Society of Biblical Literature & Logos Bible Software |
| Hebrew New Testament (Salkinson–Ginsburg) | Public domain |
| Targum Onkelos, Pseudo-Jonathan and Jonathan to Isaiah (Aramaic)Aramaic texts from Sefaria (Torat Emet; Mikraot Gedolot). Aligned to the Hebrew verse numbering; a verse a Targum folds into the one before is left blank. | Public domain |
| The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan ben Uzziel (English) — J. W. Etheridge, 1862–65Onkelos from eBible.org; Pseudo-Jonathan via Sefaria. Isaiah: the London “Chaldee Paraphrase”, 1871 (via Sefaria). | Public domain |
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