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BHS-W4 missing verse?


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It looks like Numbers 25.19 (English bible, beginning of 26.1) is missing from my BHS-W4, is this right?

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No, it is not missing. If you make your search text the BHS-W4, you will see it included. The reason it doesn't show up when another version/Bible is your search text is because it is not included in that text. It's sort of like when you look at the NAS95S as the search text and show the NRSV in parallel. The apocryphal sections of the NRSV will not show as you scroll through the NAS because the NAS does not include those verses. This situation with the BHS does present an interesting dilemma, though, as most users would expect it to be there in this case.

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Thanks, I knew I was missing something... 2nd question - why isn't the bhs v.19 tagged to nasb 26.1a?

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At this point, I don't believe Accordance has the capability (or at least that capability has not been tapped) to break texts down beyond the verse level for parallels and tagging. So when you look at the BHS-W4 next to the NAS95S, you see a "-" at 25:19 in the NAS since that verse does not exist as such in that text. I hope I'm answering what you're asking! I think it would be helpful if there was some way Accordance could "know" when this sort of thing occurs and make the appropriate connections, like it does, for example, in Malachi 3 (Malachi 3-4 in English). The difference here, of course, is that one verse in the English is two in Hebrew, whereas in Malachi there are the same number of verses that are simply numbered differently.

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Accordance does an extraordinary job of aligning all the different versions with all the variations in verse numbering and order. However, when two verses are combined, as all English Bibles do here except the JPS which always follows the Hebrew, the combined verse can only be matched with one verse in the other version. There is no way to match it to both verses, so our advice is, as always, that if material seems to be missing from a text, look at the passage with that text as the search text (or text order text). Of course, it's even trickier here as the verse is in the previous chapter.

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