Updated Lexham English Bible (LEB), Fourth Edition

Hi folks.

We will shortly (perhaps even today, Tuesday, February 21 2012) release an update to the Lexham English Bible. This update will be available for users of Logos 4.5a. An update for LDLS 3.x will also be available on ftp://ftp.logos.com/lbxbooks in the next 24 hours or so. Updates for iOS, Android and Biblia.com will follow.

Since the initial release of the Old Testament of the Lexham English Bible, we have been working hard on reviewing and fixing some things. We have located and corrected several typos and other errors that slipped through the cracks earlier. Thanks to all who have reported them, and please continue to report whatever issues you encounter by using the "Report a Typo" feature.

The biggest change in this latest release, however, is the versification of the Old Testament.

In the original (Third Edition) release of the LEB with OT, the OT had a versification that mirrored that of the Hebrew Text. This was helpful for some things, but made other things more difficult. For example, typing in your favorite Psalm reference would likely have been off by one verse. This is confusing and unexpected by many folks who primarily read the English Bible.

So we decided to re-order the versification more along the lines of what English Bibles traditionally use. That work is done, so we are now releasing the Fourth Edition of the Lexham English Bible.

There have been some questions on the forum about a reverse interlinear for the OT of the LEB. No, it isn't in there right now. Yes, we do want to do it, and yes we are working on it. But it will take some time to complete.

We think the LEB OT translation is useful even without a reverse interlinear for the Old Testament, so we decided to release the translation without it. While I don't have an exact time frame on when the OT Reverse Interlinear might be released, it should be out before the end of the year (and hopefully well before then).

Thanks for your use and interest in the LEB!

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Rich DeRuiter

Thanks for all your (pl.) work on this!

Speaking of reverse interlinears, any update on the NIV & NLT rev. int's for the OT?

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

Thanks for all your (pl.) work on this!

+1 [Y] Thanks ye all, ye all [:D]

Speaking of reverse interlinears, any update on the NIV & NLT rev. int's for the OT?

Edit: likewise wonder about reverse interlinear progress for 1901 American Standard Version (ASV) ?

Keep Smiling [:)]

Rick Brannan (Logos)

Hi KS4J & Richard

Thanks for the kind words.

Speaking of reverse interlinears, any update on the NIV & NLT rev. int's for the OT?

Edit: likewise wonder about reverse interlinear progress for 1901 American Standard Version (ASV) ?

On the NIV: We've wrapped up the NIV2011NT Reverse Interlinear and hope to release it soon (perhaps even this week). We're over halfway done with the alignment to the NIV2011 OT Reverse Interlinear. No estimated release date on that, however. Lastly, for all sorts of reasons, we are not working on a NIV84 OT alignment at present.

The NLT OT is a long story. The short version is that we had expected (well before now) the OT from the same party that provided the NT, but it was never delivered. We are working to try to ascertain its status with that provider, but have no idea what may come of it.

OT Reverse Interlinears are simply more complex beasts than NT Reverse Interlinears. There is 3x the content, issues with qere/kethiv, issues with taking LXX readings in some places, issues with versification, and a less direct relationship between Hebrew and English than there is between Greek and English. That is, (I'm told, as I don't know much Hebrew) you can read the Hebrew and see that the English matches, but aligning word to word can be tricky; much trickier than with Greek and the NT. There is more of it, and it is more difficult, so it just takes longer. We have some ideas to speed things up, but those will pay off in the long run, not the short run.

KS4J, on the 1901ASV: We have no plans at present to do a reverse interlinear (OT or NT) of that translation. There are a few other translations that we would likely pursue first.

Jerry M

Lastly, for all sorts of reasons, we are not working on a NIV84 OT alignment at present.

Ouch! I guess I can understand that, somewhat, perhaps, maybe. (I'm still smiling KS4J)

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

KS4J, on the 1901ASV: We have no plans at present to do a reverse interlinear (OT or NT) of that translation. There are a few other translations that we would likely pursue first.

Appreciate update, albeit "das tut mir leid" (with stilted literal translation) comes to mind about 1901 ASV (along with a dream).

[Y] Looking forward to interlinear and reverse interlinear resources.

Keep Smiling [:)]

Rich DeRuiter

Lastly, for all sorts of reasons, we are not working on a NIV84 OT alignment at present.

I can understand the difficulties with the NIV84, but I had been under the impression that you were working on it, and that our purchase of the NIV (84) reverse interlinear with our initial L4 base package purchase would still be honored.

I'm very disappointed, and not a little bit frustrated.

Paul Caneparo

Will the LEB ever be published as a printed Bible?