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The Holy Bible
World English Bible: Messianic Edition
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The Holy Bible
World English Bible: Messianic Edition
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Rainbow Missions, Inc., Colorado, USA, http://RainbowMissions.org
19 August 2008
18 Av 5768
Editors: Wayne Mitchell & Michael Paul Johnson
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The Holy Bible
World English Bible: Messianic Edition
PRESENTED TO
ON
BY
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Notes
Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
Genesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Exodus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Leviticus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Deuteronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Joshua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Judges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
The First Book of Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
The Second Book of Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
The First Book of Kings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
The Second Book of Kings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Isaiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Jeremiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Ezekiel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
Hosea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Joel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
Amos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
Obadiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
Jonah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
Micah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
Nahum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
Habakkuk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
Zephaniah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Haggai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Zechariah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
Malachi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
The Psalms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
Proverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610
Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635
Song of Solomon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
Lamentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669
Ecclesiastes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675
Esther . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682
Ruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689
Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693
Ezra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707
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Nehemiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716
The First Book of Chronicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729
The Second Book of Chronicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754
The Good News According to Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785
The Good News According to Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818
The Good News According to Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838
The Good News According to Yochanan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871
The Acts of the Emissaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896
Paul’s Letter to the Romans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 928
Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 942
Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 954
Paul’s Letter to the Galatians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 962
Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967
Paul’s Letter to the Philippians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971
Paul’s Letter to the Colossians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 974
Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977
Paul’s Second Letter to the Thessalonians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 980
Paul’s First Letter to Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 982
Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 986
Paul’s Letter to Titus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 989
Paul’s Letter to Philemon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 991
The Letter to the Hebrews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 992
The Letter from Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002
Peter’s First Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005
Peter’s Second Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009
Yochanan’s First Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1012
Yochanan’s Second Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016
Yochanan’s Third Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1017
The Letter from Judah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1018
The Revelation to Yochanan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019
Helps 1034
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1034
Fulfilled Messianic Prophecies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1041
50 Parallels Between Moses and Yeshua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049
Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053
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Preface
This book contains a revelation of the Messiah–the Anointed One who came from the Almighty
on a mission to save people from destruction. The Messiah demonstrated the Father’s awesome
love through his perfect obedience of the Torah and the fulfillment of the prophetic writings.
The same Holy Spirit who inspired the Holy Bible is living among us today, and He is happy
to help you understand what He intended as you study His Word. Just ask Him, and He is more
than happy to help you apply His message to your life.
Why create yet another English Bible translation?
There are already many good translations of the Holy Bible into contemporary English.
Unfortunately, almost all of them are restricted by copyright and copyright holder policy. This
restricts publication of God’s Word in many ways, such as in downloadable files on the Internet.
The World English Bible was commissioned by God in response to prayer about this subject. The
World English Bible: Messianic Edition is published for the benefit of English-speaking Messianic
Jews. In this edition, some of the traditional Greek/English names have been replaced with their
traditional Hebrew equivalents. In deference to Jewish tradition, the Holy Name is rendered as
“LORD” (or when used in combination with “Lord” translated from “Adonai,” as “GOD”) in this
edition.
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You may notice the following differences in comparing this translation to other translations:
• The order of Matthew 23:13 and 14 is reversed in some translations.
• Luke 17:36 and Acts 15:34, which are not found in the majority of the best manuscripts (and
are relegated to footnotes in this translation) may be included in some other translations.
• Romans 14:24-26 may appear as Romans 16:25-27 in other translations.
• 1 John 5:7-8 contains an addition (“in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit;
and these three are one. And there are three that testify on earth”) in some translations,
including the KJV. Erasmus admitted adding this text to his published Greek New Testament,
even though he could at first find no Greek manuscript support for it, because he was being
pressured by men to do so, and because he didn’t see any doctrinal harm in it. Lots of things
not written by John in this letter are true, but we decline to add them to what the Holy Spirit
inspired through John.
With all of the above and some other places where lack of clarity in the original manuscripts
has led to multiple possible readings, significant variants are listed in footnotes. The reading that
in our prayerful judgement is best is in the main text. Overall, the World English Bible: Messianic
Edition isn’t significantly different than several other good contemporary English translations of
the Holy Bible. The message of Salvation through the Messiah is still the same.
Preface viii
Capitalization
Some translations capitalize pronouns pertaining to God. Some do not. Hebrew has no such
thing as upper and lower case, and the Greek manuscripts were written all in one case, anyway.
This is purely a matter of English style. The KJV capitalized these pronouns because English
usage at the time demanded capitalization of pronouns referring to a king, and God is certainly the
greatest King. In modern English, we don’t capitalize pronouns pertaining to kings and presidents.
One particularly difficult place to decide on capitalization is in the coronation psalms, which were
written originally for an earthly king, but later sung in praise to the King of Kings. Although there
are good arguments both ways, we left the capitalization of pronouns as the ASV, NIV, and others
have done, without capitalizing pronouns referring to God.
Footnotes
In this edition, the only footnotes are the translators’ footnotes, which offer clarification of
shades of meanings of words and give equivalent weights, measures, and monetary values.
Sometimes alternate readings are given where there is more than one way to legitimately translate
a passage or where significant groups of manuscripts differ. In particular, the abbreviation “NU”
is used to denote alternate readings from the critical text due primarily to the work of Nestle and
Aland and published by the United Bible Societies. “TR” is used to denote alternate readings from
the Textus Receptus, which is the basis of the King James Version New Testament. This translation
is based on the Greek Majority Text as the most authoritative reading of the New Testament we
could find. Significant alternate readings from the other two widely respected critical texts are
given in the footnotes.
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1 Genesis 2:3
Genesis
1:1
In the beginning Goda
created the heavens
and the earth. 1:2
Now the earth was formless
and empty. Darkness was on the surface of
the deep. God’s Spirit was hovering over the
surface of the waters.
1:3
God said, “Let there be light,” and there
was light. 1:4
God saw the light, and saw that
it was good. God divided the light from the
darkness. 1:5
God called the light “day,” and the
darkness he called “night.” There was evening
and there was morning, one day.
1:6
God said, “Let there be an expanse in
the middle of the waters, and let it divide the
waters from the waters.” 1:7
God made the
expanse, and divided the waters which were
under the expanse from the waters which were
above the expanse; and it was so. 1:8
God called
the expanse “sky.” There was evening and
there was morning, a second day.
1:9
God said, “Let the waters under the sky
be gathered together to one place, and let the
dry land appear”; and it was so. 1:10
God
called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering
together of the waters he called “seas.” God
saw that it was good. 1:11
God said, “Let the
earth yield grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit
trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed
in it, on the earth”; and it was so. 1:12
The earth
yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their
kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it,
after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
1:13
There was evening and there was morning,
a third day.
1:14
God said, “Let there be lights in the
expanse of sky to divide the day from the night;
and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and
for days and years; 1:15
and let them be for lights
in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth”;
and it was so. 1:16
God made the two great
lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the
lesser light to rule the night. He also made the
stars. 1:17
God set them in the expanse of sky to
give light to the earth, 1:18
and to rule over the
day and over the night, and to divide the light
from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
1:19
There was evening and there was morning,
a fourth day.
1:20
God said, “Let the waters swarm with
swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly
above the earth in the open expanse of sky.”
1:21
God created the large sea creatures, and
every living creature that moves, with which
the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every
winged bird after its kind. God saw that it
was good. 1:22
God blessed them, saying, “Be
fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in
the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
1:23
There was evening and there was morning,
a fifth day.
1:24
God said, “Let the earth produce living
creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping
things, and animals of the earth after their
kind”; and it was so. 1:25
God made the animals
of the earth after their kind, and the livestock
after their kind, and everything that creeps on
the ground after its kind. God saw that it was
good.
1:26
God said, “Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness: and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over
the birds of the sky, and over the livestock,
and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creeps on the earth.” 1:27
God created
man in his own image. In God’s image he
created him; male and female he created them.
1:28
God blessed them. God said to them, “Be
fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it.
Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the
birds of the sky, and over every living thing that
moves on the earth.” 1:29
God said, “Behold, I
have given you every herb yielding seed, which
is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree,
which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your
food. 1:30
To every animal of the earth, and to
every bird of the sky, and to everything that
creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have
given every green herb for food”; and it was so.
1:31
God saw everything that he had made,
and, behold, it was very good. There was
evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
2:1
The heavens and the earth were finished,
and all their vast array. 2:2
On the seventh day
God finished his work which he had made; and
he rested on the seventh day from all his work
which he had made. 2:3
God blessed the seventh
day, and made it holy, because he rested in it
from all his work which he had created and
made.
a1:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” After “God,” the Hebrew has the two letters “Aleph
Tav” (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet) as a grammatical marker.
Genesis 2:4 2 Genesis 3:13
2:4
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