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I have the Jewish Publication Society of America's "The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text" from 1917, and in it Jeremiah 30 has 24 lines. I also have "The Jerusalem Bible" by Koren Publishers from 1992, which is also the (a?) Masoretic text, but Jeremiah 30 has 25 lines in it. I am very surprised and I am wondering if my eyes are seeing this wrong? If I am seeing this right, are there other Masoretic texts with these differences?

Just be aware that JPS 1917 was not a fresh translation. It used the KJV as its basis and just made changes. I wouldn't refer to it as a strictly Jewish translation. The new JPS translation, though, is certainly a translation of its own merit. Have you seen what it has in Jeremiah 30? If you need, I've got a copy of it on my shelf and can refer to it for you.

I have a more recent JPS one, and I just noticed a tiny footnote. It has 24 lines in Jeremiah 30, but Jeremiah 31:1 says it is Jeremiah 30:25 in some editions.

This is, I believe, the fresh translation, free, online:

https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cd ... lt=primary

Ruminator wrote:This is, I believe, the fresh translation, free, online:

https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cd ... lt=primary

Chabad would never use the translation from the Reform Movement.