Kjv 1769 King James Bible
Recently a reader of the BSF web site sent this letter to me (and presumably to several of his friends as well):Daniel Wallace is a noted Greek scholar and professor of New Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary. In his paper entitled “Why So Many Versions?” Wallace makes the following statement -“.we must remember that the King James Bible of today is not the King James of 1611. It has undergone three revisions, incorporating more than 100,000 changes!”There you have it. A scholar of repute has spoken. Other critics have taken up the same whimpering cry.But is it true?No, it is not true. Furthermore, it is willfully deceptive, as I shall now demonstrate.First, the facts. The King James Bible contains 791,328 words.
Since the first King James Bible rolled off the press in 1611 to the King James Bible you buy off the shelf today, there have been - are you ready - there have been a grand total of 421 word changes! That's it!From 1611 until now, the King James Bible has undergone a grand total of 421 word changes, amounting to only five one-hundredths of a percent of the text! But that's not all.
It gets better.Out of the 421 total changes amounting to only five one-hundredths of a percent, the following should be noted -TOWARDS has been changed to TOWARD 14 times.BURNT has been changed to BURNED 31 times.AMONGST has been changed to AMONG 36 times.LIFT has been changed to LIFTED 51 times.YOU has been changed to YE 82 times.Out of a grand total of 421 changes from 1611 to the present, almost 300 of the 421 are of this exact nature! Now let’s do the math.By omitting changes of this nature, we now have about 150 (to be conservative) remaining changes. This amounts to one one-hundredth of a percent of the text.The remaining 150 changes from 1611 to today are composed of printing errors, spelling standardization, and a few minor phrase changes.