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Genesis 1

Compare legally acquired editions side-by-side with clear edition and numbering identities. Hebrew and Greek words are clickable for lexical, morphology, occurrence, and provenance study. For the Old Testament, STEPBible TVTMS can bridge KJV-style, Masoretic, and Septuagint reference numbering for navigation without treating those numbering systems as evidence of textual identity. Translation highlighting appears only when a curated or independently validated relationship supports it; imported BSB and KJV Strong layers retain separate provenance, and KJV Strong tags remain later concordance metadata rather than original 1611 translator annotations.

Versions in parallel
Genesis 1 31 anchor verse rows · Hebrew / Masoretic numbering · anchor WLC / OSHB
10 local corpus editions detected TVTMS mapping loaded BSB interlinear follow source loaded KJV Strong translation-follow source loaded Filesystem reader v0.7
Translation follow 1 sourced verse alignment available in this chapter. Click a highlighted-capable word to follow its span across selected editions. Curated records retain passage-level priority. Where no curated record exists, validated KJV Strong and imported BSB groups can coexist when both English editions are selected. Each highlight keeps its own evidence layer and review fingerprint. When supported English layers share the same independently verified source span, the reader can compare their renderings without merging those sources into an invented alignment or treating Strong-number agreement alone as proof of equivalence.
Berean curated · 1 verse · 5 validated groups
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Passage research · Interpretive context · Reception history · Evidence audit · Dependency analysis

Evidence workspace for Genesis 1

The research graph keeps literary observations, historical evidence, intertextual relationships, attributed scholarship, and Berean synthesis visibly separate from Scripture text while preserving textual, lexical, manuscript, and translation-study layers.

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Verse 1

Genesis 1:1

5 linked records8 sources0 citations
Evidence boundary: Research relationships organize records; they do not merge Scripture text, editions/manuscripts, lexical evidence, historical evidence, scholar interpretation, or Berean synthesis into one authority or evidence class.
Scripture saysText, grammar, narration, or other directly observed textual data.
Historical evidence indicatesExternal/contextual evidence such as ancient texts, archaeology, inscriptions, custom, or material culture.
Scholar arguesAn attributed interpretation; reputation does not substitute for its evidence chain.
Berean synthesisOur evidence-weighted assessment, with uncertainty and counterevidence left visible.
Connected evidence0 evidence entities · 2 claim recordsBounded to explicit stored relationship paths; provenance sources are not used as graph bridges.
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Clause & phrase structureCurated research segmentation; edition text and structural claims keep separate evidence states

Clause and phrase hierarchy is a research structure. Edition surface text, editorial segmentation, syntax annotation, translation alignment, and manuscript evidence remain separate claims.

Editions & translationsNamed display/comparison editions; presence here does not imply textual identity or agreement
KJVtranslation BSBtranslation WEBtranslation Brenton LXXtranslation WLC / OSHBDisplayed Edition With Annotation LXX GreekComparison Edition

Translation differences are observed in the parallel text above; interpretive explanations belong in separately sourced research records.

Curated translation follow available. CURATED_SPAN_CORRESPONDENCE_NOT_LEXICAL_EQUIVALENCE · Berean review: Reviewed / Display · 5/5 groups reviewed. Evidence JSON → Review workbench →
Literary structureCurated observations such as repetition, narrative framing, progression, and unresolved endings; machine suggestions are not promoted without review

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Textual evidenceVariants, readings, and manuscript records

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Word studiesLemma, morphology, lexicons, and occurrences
Word Study רֵאשִׁית — Hebrew word study VERIFIED_OSHB_LEMMA
Historical evidence & contextHistorical, cultural, archaeological, documentary, and social-context evidence
Semantic Usage Occurrence רֵאשִׁית — Deuteronomy 18:4 first produce/fleece given to priest Semantic Usage Occurrence רֵאשִׁית — Genesis 1:1 temporal/cosmological beginning
Intertextual & canonical relationshipsTyped quotation, echo, thematic-parallel, and possible-allusion records; similarity alone does not prove dependence

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Interpretations & synthesisAttributed scholar arguments and Berean assessments kept distinct from primary evidence and from each other

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History of interpretationDocumented reception-history records with normalized interpreter/work/tradition attribution; chronology and fame do not confer authority

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MediaReusable media research objects

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Other researchAdditional linked research objects

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Sources & provenanceTraceable source records and citations used by this passage research graph
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King James Version 1769 standardized text, protocanonSRC_KJV1769 · Public Domain outside the United Kingdom; UK Crown/letters-patent caveat
Berean Standard BibleSRC_BSB · Public Domain
World English Bible, 66-book updated/protocanon editionSRC_WEB · Public Domain; World English Bible name is a trademark and modified text should not retain the name
Brenton English SeptuagintSRC_BRENTON_LXX_EN · Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible / Westminster Leningrad CodexSRC_OSHB_WLC · WLC base public domain; OSHB work CC BY 4.0
STEPBible TBESH Hebrew Lexicon DataSRC_STEPBIBLE_TBESH · CC BY 4.0
Greek Septuagint / LXX (eBible GRCLXX)SRC_GRCLXX · Public Domain
Open Scriptures GreekResources / Septuagint Lemma ResourcesSRC_OPEN_SCRIPTURES_LXX_LEMMAS · CC BY 4.0
Cross-referencesCurated passage relationships, not proof of quotation, dependence, fulfillment, or identical meaning

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Septuagint source

GRCLXX stays identified.

The Greek LXX column is the public-domain eBible GRCLXX edition. LXX-only books are exposed by their actual corpus book IDs, and Brenton can be shown beside the Greek as a separate historical English translation.

Word study

Click Hebrew or Greek.

Hebrew uses OSHB lemma numbers for Bible-wide occurrence searching and can display provenance-labelled TBESH and historical Strong lexical witnesses when locally available. SBLGNT exposes verified MorphGNT lemma/morphology tags and lemma occurrences. A separate Open Scriptures LXX lemma reference concordance shows where the same lemma is indexed in the Septuagint without pretending those records are token-aligned to GRCLXX; direct GRCLXX clicks remain same-written-form until edition-specific tagging is verified.

Reference alignment

Different numbering can line up.

For the 39-book Old Testament, the reader uses a TVTMS-derived MT/LXX/English reference bridge. Explicit mappings may pull a comparison cell from a different chapter/verse and show that mapped coordinate above the text. In structurally divergent MT/LXX books, unresolved table misses are refused rather than guessed. The bridge maps numbering traditions only—it never turns GRCLXX, WLC/OSHB, or an English translation into the same textual witness.