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The Hebrew-English Jewish Scriptures, Volume 1 - The Torah. This book comprises the first five books of Jewish Scriptures, otherwise known as the Torah, The Five Books of Moses, etc. The Hebrew and the English are on facing pages. For this edition, I have altered both the Hebrew and English from the sources, especially to conform to the actual Leningrad Codex (circa year 1009), most notably in the Ten Commandments of Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. I relegated the 1,110 rabbinical 'Qere' additions to footnote notations in the Hebrew text, making it so that readers of Hebrew can read the Hebrew Text just as the Masoretes intended. Other Jewish publications force the reading of the 'later edition' margin notes, before - but also obscuring the original written text which rabbis designate as 'Ketiv, ' so this innovation in The Pill Tanakh makes reading what the authors wrote natural. In addition to altering some English verses to correspond closer to the Hebrew text, I also changed the over 5,000 instances where the title 'the Lord God' is now 'Yehovah', a transliteration of the Divine name, corresponding to the Hebrew text where that phrase is found. Again, this is Volume 1 - The Torah, part of a three volume set of Torah, Prophets and Writings, which make up the entire Jewish Scriptures.