BRA0866
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BRA0866. <em>The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures, Carefully Translated According to the Massoretic Text, on the Basis of the English Version, after the Best Jewish Authorities; and Supplied with Short Explanatory Notes.</em> Philadelphia: L. Johnson and Company, 5614 (i.e., 1854).
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Religious Text
BRB0836
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BRB0836, <em>Torat ha-Elohim hugah me-iti Yitsḥaḳ ben Uri Eliʻezer. The Law of God, Edited, and with Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by Isaac Leeser</em>. 5 vols. Philadelphia: C. Sherman for the editor, 5605 [1845-46].
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