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The Bible read aloud, one chapter at a time, in a fresh translation made directly from the Hebrew — and from the Greek where a book survives in Greek — translated by Andrew Iver and read by Deanna. Four chapters a day, Genesis to Revelation, the deuterocanon included, in plain modern English with no commentary. Where the Hebrew uses God's personal name you will hear "Adonai"; Elohim is kept as Elohim, a Hebrew word that can mean God or gods, with the context making the distinction — and genuinely contested renderings are explained in brief translator's notes in the episode notes.

  1. 8h ago

    Leviticus 23

    Leviticus 23 read aloud, in a fresh direct translation from the Hebrew — plain modern English, nothing added. Translator's notes:• Leviticus 23:24 — זִכְרוֹן תְּרוּעָה (zikron teru'ah): chose "a memorial of trumpet blasts". Alternatives: "a reminder by blowing", "a memorial proclaimed with blasts". Why: teru'ah is a loud blast/shout, and the exact instrument is not named in the verse.• Leviticus 23:40 — פְּרִי עֵץ הָדָר (peri etz hadar): chose "the fruit of splendid trees". Alternatives: "citrus fruit", "the fruit of a goodly tree". Why: hadar means splendor/majesty; the species is not named in the text.

  2. 8h ago

    Leviticus 22

    Leviticus 22 read aloud, in a fresh direct translation from the Hebrew — plain modern English, nothing added. Translator's notes:• Leviticus 22:27 — שׁוֹר (shor): chose "a bull". Alternatives: "an ox", "head of cattle". Why: the word covers cattle generally; the context is a newborn animal.

  3. 8h ago

    Leviticus 21

    Leviticus 21 read aloud, in a fresh direct translation from the Hebrew — plain modern English, nothing added. Translator's notes:• Leviticus 21:4 — בַּעַל (ba'al): chose "as a husband". Alternatives: "as a chief man", "for a married relative". Why: the word can mean husband, owner, or chief; the marital sense fits the surrounding kinship list.• Leviticus 21:20 — דַּק (daq): chose "a dwarf". Alternatives: "one who is stunted/thin", "a man of small stature". Why: paired with hunchback, it denotes a bodily stature defect, though the exact condition is uncertain.

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    Leviticus 20

    Leviticus 20 read aloud, in a fresh direct translation from the Hebrew — plain modern English, nothing added. Translator's notes:• Leviticus 20:2 — מֹלֶךְ (Molech): chose "Molech". Alternatives: "the Molech", "Moloch". Why: the Hebrew has the definite article, but Molech is treated here as the name of the deity or rite.• Leviticus 20:17 — חֶסֶד (chesed): chose "a disgrace". Alternatives: "a shameful thing", "an act of love/loyalty". Why: in this context the word is used in its rare negative sense of disgrace, not its usual sense of steadfast love.

  5. 1d ago

    Leviticus 19

    Leviticus 19 read aloud, in a fresh direct translation from the Hebrew — plain modern English, nothing added. Translator's notes:• Leviticus 19:20 — בִּקֹּרֶת (biqqoret): chose "an inquiry". Alternatives: "a penalty", "compensation", "punishment". Why: the rare word's exact legal sense is disputed — what is clear from the sentence is that a formal reckoning happens but the death penalty does not.• Leviticus 19:26 — עַל־הַדָּם (al-haddam): chose "eat over the blood". Alternatives: "eat with the blood", "eat meat with the blood in it". Why: the phrase is literally eating "on/over the blood," an idiom whose exact practice is debated; the literal picture is kept and the fork recorded.• Leviticus 19:31 — אֹבֹת וְיִדְּעֹנִים (ovot veyidde'onim): chose "the ghosts and the spirits". Alternatives: "mediums and spiritists", "familiar spirits". Why: the Hebrew names the dead spirits themselves and those who know them; the rendering keeps the beings in view, as the verse speaks of turning to them.

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    Leviticus 18

    Leviticus 18 read aloud, in a fresh direct translation from the Hebrew — plain modern English, nothing added. Translator's notes:• Leviticus 18:6 — גַּלּוֹת עֶרְוָה (gallot ervah): chose "uncover nakedness". Alternatives: "have sexual relations with". Why: the phrase is the chapter's repeated idiom for sexual relations; the literal wording is kept because the text itself speaks in that picture, and the relations meant are the kin named in each verse.• Leviticus 18:21 — מֹלֶךְ (Molech): chose "Molech". Alternatives: "the king", a god's name, a kind of offering. Why: the word is written as a name and treated as the one to whom children are passed over; what it names exactly is disputed, so the name stands as given.

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    Leviticus 17

    Leviticus 17 read aloud, in a fresh direct translation from the Hebrew — plain modern English, nothing added. Translator's notes:• Leviticus 17:7 — שְׂעִירִם (se'irim): chose "goat spirits". Alternatives: "goat-demons", "goat idols", actual goats. Why: the same word means hairy goats elsewhere, but here people "stray after" them by sacrificing, which points to beings being worshiped rather than animals; the exact nature of those beings is not spelled out.• Leviticus 17:11 — נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh): chose "life". Alternatives: "soul", "living being". Why: nephesh here is the life a creature has in its blood, which the verse itself defines; "life" carries that without adding a separate body-and-soul split the verse does not make.

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    Leviticus 16

    Leviticus 16 read aloud, in a fresh direct translation from the Hebrew — plain modern English, nothing added. Translator's notes:• Leviticus 16:8 — עֲזָאזֵל (Azazel): chose "Azazel". Alternatives: "the scapegoat", "a rugged place", a desert being's name. Why: the Hebrew is a proper name set in parallel with Adonai — one lot "for Adonai," one "for Azazel" — and what the name refers to is genuinely disputed, so the name is kept as the text gives it.• Leviticus 16:21 — אִישׁ עִתִּי (ish itti): chose "a man appointed for the task". Alternatives: "a man ready at hand", "a designated man". Why: itti points to a man appointed and ready for that moment; the rendering keeps the appointment without inventing an office title.• Leviticus 16:29 — תְּעַנּוּ אֶת־נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶם (te'annu et-nafshoteikhem): chose "humble yourselves". Alternatives: "afflict yourselves", "deny yourselves", "fast". Why: the phrase is literally "humble/afflict your souls"; fasting is the practice that grew from it, but the words themselves name the humbling, not the menu.

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The Bible read aloud, one chapter at a time, in a fresh translation made directly from the Hebrew — and from the Greek where a book survives in Greek — translated by Andrew Iver and read by Deanna. Four chapters a day, Genesis to Revelation, the deuterocanon included, in plain modern English with no commentary. Where the Hebrew uses God's personal name you will hear "Adonai"; Elohim is kept as Elohim, a Hebrew word that can mean God or gods, with the context making the distinction — and genuinely contested renderings are explained in brief translator's notes in the episode notes.

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    Andrew Iver
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