The Five Books of Moses

by Everett Fox

Publisher:

Word

, 1995

Overview

This translation is a stunning achievement—to read it is to hear the Bible as if for the first time. While all other English translations of the Bible attempt to render its language as if it had been written in English, this new translation reveals the full force of the Bible's original rhetoric and poetry—the rhythm, nuances, and stylistic devices that are particular to Hebrew and essential to the Bible's true message and to the spiritual and aesthetic power of its art. Beautifully designed and augmented by extensive commentary and notes, the publication of The Five Books of Moses has already been heralded by scholars, writers, and theologians of every faith. It is a religious, scholarly, literary, and publishing event of the highest order.

Contents

Most Highlighted Verses in The Five Books of Moses

Genesis 2:23–24: The human said: This-time, she-is-it!
Bone from my bones,
flesh from my flesh!
She shall be called Woman/Isha,
for from Man/Ish she was taken! Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Genesis 3:12: The human said: The woman whom you gave to be beside me, she gave me from the tree, and so I ate.

Genesis 3:14–15: Yhwh, God, said to the snake: Because you have done this, damned be you from all the animals and from all the living-things of the field; upon your belly shall you walk and dust shall you eat, all the days of your life. I put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed: they will bruise you on the head, you will bruise them in the heel.

Genesis 4:7: Is it not thus: If you intend good, bear-it-aloft, but if you do not intend good, at the entrance is sin, a crouching-demon, toward you his lust— but you can rule over him.

Genesis 5:24: Now Hanokh walked in accord with God, then he was no more, for God had taken him.

Genesis 18:12–15: Sara laughed within herself, saying: After I have become worn, is there to be pleasure for me? And my lord is old! But Yhwh said to Avraham: Now why does Sara laugh and say: Shall I really give birth, now that I am old? Is anything beyond Yhwh? At that set-time I will return to you, when time revives, and Sara will have a son. …

Genesis 32:2–3: As Yaakov went on his way, messengers of God encountered him. Yaakov said when he saw them: This is a camp of God! And he called the name of that place: Mahanayim/Double-Camp.

Exodus 3:6: And he said: I am the God of your father, the God of Avraham, the God of Yitzhak, and the God of Yaakov. Moshe concealed his face, for he was afraid to gaze upon God.

Exodus 19:5–6: So now, if you will hearken, yes, hearken to my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a special-treasure from among all peoples. Indeed, all the earth is mine, but you, you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation. These are the words that you are to speak to the Children of Israel.

Exodus 32:31–32: Moshe returned to Yhwh and said: Ah now, this people has sinned a great sin, they have made themselves gods of gold! So now, if you would only bear their sin—! But if not, pray blot me out of the record that you have written!

Product Details

• Title: The Five Books of Moses
• Author: Everett Fox
• Publisher: Word
• Print Publication Date: 1995
• Logos Release Date: 2001
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. O.T. Pentateuch › English; Bible. O.T. Pentateuch › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780805240610, 0805240616
• Resource ID: LLS:1.0.155
• Resource Type: Bible
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-02-07T23:18:45Z