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Bruce, F. F. The English Bible: A History of Translations from the Earliest English Versions to the New English Bible. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Collins, John C. Genesis 1-4: A Linguistic, Literary, and Theological Commentary. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2006.
Freedman, David Noel, Astrid B. Beck, and Bruce E. Zuckerman, eds. The Leningrad Codex: A Facsimile Edition. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 1998.
Matthews, Kenneth A. Genesis 1-11:26. The New American Commentary, vol. 1A. Nashville: Broadman and Holman Publishers, 1996.
Orlinsky, Harry M. Foreword to Genesis: The N. J. V. Translation. New York: Harper & Row
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