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Clearly the three-year collation of AV1611 editions carried out by members of the American Bible Society
decisively refutes Dr Waite’s protestations about “all of the hundreds of changes that have been
made in the King James Bible from 1611 to the present.”
A few samples of the more noticeable changes between the 1611 AV1611 and the current Cambridge
Cameo AV1611 have been listed below. These are selections from a list of 30 verses forwarded to this
author some years ago by an arch-Bible critic (now deceased) as indicating serious changes between
AV1611 editions. The full list is; Leviticus 26:40, 2 Samuel 16:8, Psalm 18:47, 42:9, Jeremiah 19:11,
Ezekiel 24:7, 46:23, Matthew 12:23, 13:45, 16:16, 26:36, 75, Mark 2:4, 5:6, 10:18, Luke 1:3, 19:9,
22:40, John 5:18, 15:20, Acts 4:27, 6:3, Romans 11:23, 1 Corinthians 4:9, 12:28, 2 Corinthians 12:2, 1
Timothy 1:4, 4:16, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 John 5:12, 30 verses in all.
The list has been addressed in this author’s earlier work [“O Biblios” – The Book pp 225ff], although
comments on 1 Corinthians 4:9 should be amended as shown below. This writer extends his apologies
for any confusion arising from the earlier work with respect to this verse. The sample changes follow,
with this writer’s comments from the earlier work in italics, with some amendments and supplemented
by dates of the changes that Dr Scrivener [in The Authorized Edition of the English Bible (1611), Appendices
A, C] noted. See pp 170ff of the uploaded file Volume 4, www.timefortruth.co.uk/why-avonly/.
Ezekiel 24:7
1611 AV1611 Current Cambridge Cameo AV1611
“she powred it upon the ground to couer
it with dust”
“she poured it not upon the ground, to
cover it with dust”
“Not” is in the Masoretic Hebrew* text, which would suggest that the omission in the 1611 reading is a
typographical error. This is apparent not only in the first part of verse 7, “she set it upon the top of a
rock” but also in verse 8, which reads “I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not
be covered.” *The underlying texts are not the final authority with respect to “all scripture” that “is
given by inspiration of God” 2 Timothy 3:16. The 1611 Holy Bible is the final authority. See Dr Mrs
Riplinger’s remarks about ‘the Greek etc.’ under Question 46. The sense of the source text and that of
the translation should match, however, which makes the 1611 omission of “not” a typo that needed correction
and which was corrected. See Question 35.
Dr Scrivener notes that this particular typo was corrected in 1613.
Ezekiel 46:23
1611 AV1611 Current Cambridge Cameo AV1611
“there was a new building round about”
“there was a row of building round about”
The context in BOTH Editions indicates that each corner of the court was surrounded by buildings. Of
course they were NEW (1611 reading), the whole temple was NEW - it hasn’t even been built yet. If the
buildings were “round about” a corner, they would have to be in a ROW. Both readings are correct.
Dr Scrivener notes that the current amendment dates from 1638.
Matthew 12:23
1611 AV1611 Current Cambridge Cameo AV1611
“Is this the sonne of David?”
“Is not this the son of David?”
“Meti”, which is “not” in an exclamatory sense as “What(?)”, is found in Berry’s TR but is untranslated,
yielding almost the same reading as the 1611 Bible. The people’s amazement in the context shows
that BOTH readings have the same sense, although the [current] reading is stronger because it includes
the exclamatory term.
The change dates from 1638.