The Bible with Sources Revealed

Richard Elliott Friedman

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Year: 2009
• ISBN:
  9780061951299
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

One of the World's Foremost Bible Experts Offers a Groundbreaking Presentation of the Five Books of Moses

In The Bible with Sources Revealed, Richard Elliott Friedman offers a new, visual presentation of the Five Books of Moses -- Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy -- unlocking the complex and fascinating tapestry of their origins. Different colors and type styles allow readers to easily identify each of the distinct sources, showcasing Friedman's highly acclaimed and dynamic translation.

NOTE: This book is meant to be experienced in color and the eBook is not compatible with black and white devices.

GENESIS

1¹In the beginning of God’s creating the skies and the earth— ²when the earth had been shapeless and formless,* and darkness was on the face of the deep, and God’s spirit was hovering on the face of the water— ³God** said, “Let there be light.” And there was light. ⁴And God saw the light, that it was good, and God separated between the light and the darkness. ⁵And God called the light “day” and called the darkness “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning: one day.

⁶And God said, “Let there be a space within the water, and let it separate between water and water.” ⁷And God made the space, and it separated between the water that was under the space and the water that was above the space. And it was so. ⁸And God called the space “skies.” And there was evening, and there was morning: a second day.

⁹And God said, “Let the waters be concentrated under the skies into one place, and let the land appear.” And it was so. ¹⁰And God called the land “earth,” and called the concentration of the waters “seas.” And God saw that it was good. ¹¹And God said, “Let the earth generate plants, vegetation that produces seed, fruit trees, each making fruit of its own kind, which has its seed in it, on the earth.” And it was so: ¹²The earth brought out plants, vegetation that produces seeds of its own kind, and trees that make fruit that each has seeds of its own kind in it. 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 space of the skies to distinguish between the day and the night, and they will be for signs and for appointed times and for days and years. ¹⁵And they will be for lights in the space of the skies to shed light on the earth.” And it was so. ¹⁶And God made the two big lights—the bigger light for the regulation of the day and the smaller light for the regulation of the night—and the stars. ¹⁷And God set them in the space of the skies to shed light on the earth ¹⁸and to regulate the day and the night and to distinguish between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹And there was evening, and there was morning: a fourth day.

²⁰And God said, “Let the water swarm with a swarm of living beings, and let birds fly over the earth on the face of the space of the skies.” ²¹And God created the big sea serpents and all the living beings that creep, with which the water swarmed, by their kinds, and every winged bird by its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²²And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply in the earth.” ²³And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

²⁴And God said, “Let the earth bring out living beings by their kind, domestic animal and creeping thing and wild animals of the earth by their kind.” And it was so. ²⁵And God made the wild animals of the earth by their kind and the domestic animals by their kind and every creeping thing of the ground by their kind. And God saw that it was good.

²⁶And God said, “Let us make a human, in our image, according to our likeness, and let them dominate the fish of the sea and the birds of the skies and the domestic animals and all the earth and all the creeping things that creep on the earth.” ²⁷And God created the human in His image. He created it in the image of God; He created them male and female. ²⁸And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and dominate the fish of the sea and the birds of the skies and every animal that creeps on the earth.” ²⁹And God said, “Here, I have placed all the vegetation that produces seed that is on the face of all the earth for you and every tree, which has in it the fruit of a tree producing seed. It will be food for you ³⁰and for all the wild animals of the earth and for all the birds of the skies and for all the creeping things on the earth, everything in which there is a living being: every plant of vegetation, for food.” And it was so.

³¹And God saw everything that He had made, and, here, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

2¹And the skies and the earth and all their array were finished. ²And in the seventh day God finished His work that He had done and ceased in the seventh day from all His work that He had done. ³And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because He ceased in it from doing all His work, which God had created.

⁴These are the records of the skies and the earth when they were created:*

In the day that YHWH God** made earth and skies‡— ⁵when all produce of the field had not yet been in the earth, and all vegetation of the field had not yet grown, for YHWH God had not rained on the earth, and there had been no human to work the ground, ⁶and a river had come up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground— ⁷YHWH God fashioned a human, dust from the ground, and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the human became a living being.

⁸And YHWH God planted a garden in Eden at the east, and He set the human whom He had fashioned there. ⁹And YHWH God caused every tree that was pleasant to the sight and good for eating to grow from the ground, and the tree of life within the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and bad.

¹⁰And a river was going out from Eden to water the garden, and it was dispersed from there and became four heads. ¹¹The name of one was Pishon; that is the one that circles all the land of Havilah where there is gold. ¹²And that land’s gold is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. ¹³And the name of the second river is Gihon; that is the one that circles all the land of Cush. ¹⁴And the name of the third river is Tigris; that is the one that goes east of Assyria. And the fourth river: that is Euphrates.*

¹⁵And YHWH God took the human and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and to watch over it. ¹⁶And YHWH God commanded the human, saying, “You may eat from every tree of the garden. ¹⁷But from the tree of knowledge of good and bad: you shall not eat from it, because in the day you eat from it: you’ll die!”

¹⁸And YHWH God said, “It’s not good for the human to be by himself. I’ll make for him a strength corresponding to him.” ¹⁹And YHWH God fashioned from the ground every animal of the field and every bird of the skies and brought it to the human to see what he would call it. And whatever the human would call it, each living being, that would be its name. ²⁰And the human gave names to every domestic animal and bird of the skies and every animal of the field. But He did not find for the human a strength corresponding to him.

²¹And YHWH God caused a slumber to descend on the human, and he slept. And He took one of his ribs and closed flesh in its place. ²²And YHWH God built the rib that He had taken from the human into a woman and brought her to the human. ²³And the human said, “This time is it: bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh. This will be called ‘woman,’ for this one was taken from ‘man.’”*

²⁴On account of this a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his woman, and they become one flesh.

²⁵And the two of them were naked, the human and his woman, and they were not embarrassed.

3¹And the snake was slier than every animal of the field that YHWH God had made, and he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said you may not eat from any tree of the garden?”

²And the woman said to the snake, “We may eat from the fruit of the trees of the garden. ³But from the fruit of the tree that is within the garden God has said, “You shall not eat from it, and you shall not touch it, or else you’ll die.”

⁴And the snake said to the woman, “You won’t die! ⁵Because God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you’ll be like God**—knowing good and bad.” ⁶And the woman saw that the tree was good for eating and that it was an attraction to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to bring about understanding, and she took some of its fruit, and she ate, and gave to her man with her as well, and he ate. ⁷And the eyes of the two of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they picked fig leaves and made loincloths for themselves.

⁸And they heard the sound of YHWH God walking in the garden in the wind of the day, and the human and his woman hid from YHWH God among the garden’s trees. ⁹And YHWH God called the human and said to him, “Where are you?”

¹⁰And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden and was afraid because I was naked, and I hid.”

¹¹And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?”

¹²And the human said, “The woman, wh...