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THE BIBLE REVISION.
Rev DR. Strone's Star, # Changes
in the Old Te.-
From the BaEttD


the new version Will be printed in para
graphs with the verse numbers in the
margin:
l. In the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth.
2. And the earth was waste and void: and
darkness was upon the face Of the deep and
the spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters.
8. And God said: Let there be light, and
there was light.
4. And God saw the light shat it was good ;
and God divided the hight from the darkness
8. And God called the light day and the
darkness He called night, and there was
evening and there was morning, one day.
6. And God said: Let there be ornament
in the midst OF the waters, and let il divide
the waters from the waters.
Z. And God made the armament and divided
the wat rs which We're under the Ornament
from the waters which were above the hrma
ment; and it was so.
3. And God called the armament heaven
and there was evening and there was morn
ing, a second day.
8. And God said: Let the waters under the
heaven be gathered together unto one place,
ana let the dry land appear; and IL was so.
10. And God called the dry land earth and
the gathering together of the waters called
He seas; and God saw that it was good.
II. Anc God SAID: Let the earth put forth
grass, herb yielding seed and trees bearing
fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed there
Of, upon 1he earth; and IL was so.
II. AND the earth brought forth grass, herb
yielding eed after its kind, and trees bearing
fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its
kind; ami God saw that 1t was good.
10. And there was evening and there was
morning, a third day.
ID. AndGod said Let there be light in the
frmameni Of the heaven to divide the day
from the right; and let them be for signs, and
for season.. and for da7 S, and years.
Is. And ct them be for lights in the irma-
ment of TIE heaven to give light upon the
earth; an( it was so.
is. And Sod made the two great lights; the
greater ltht 10 rule the day and the lesser
light TO rule the night; He made the stars
also.
II. And Iod set them in the ornament of
the heavent0 give light upon the EARTH
IL. And 0 rule over the day and over the
night, and divide the light from the dark
ness; and God saw that it was good.
10. And there was evening and there was
morning, a Ourth day.
20. And Cod said: Let the waters bring
forth abuncantly the moving creature that
hath If, AMI let fowl fly above the earth in
the open ornament of heaven.
q. And Gid created the great sea monsters
and every living creature that mOyeth."
which the wlters brought forth abundantly,
after their kinds; and every winged fow after
Its kind; and God saw that II was good.
p. And Col blessed them, saving, be fruit
ful and multiply ard fill the waters in the seas
and let fowl multiply in the earth.
%. And there wa evening, and there was
morning. a fifth day
"a And God said: let the earth bring forth
the living creature ater its kind, cattle and
creeping things and hast of the earth after its
kind and it, was so.
25. And God made he beast of the earth
after its kind, and thecattle after their kind,
and everything that creepeth upon the
ground after its kind; and God saw that it
was good.
26. And God said: Lit us make man in our
image after our Likeness; and let them have
dominion over the fish the sea. and over the
fowl of the air, and Ovr the cattle, and over
all the earth, and over every creeping thing
that creepeth upon theearth.
p. And God createdman in His own image
in the image of God Grated He him; male and
female created He then.
%. And God blessed them. and God SAID
unto them, be fruitful ana multiply and re-
plenish the earth and sNhdue it. and have do
.miniOn over the fish OF he sea and over the
fowl OF the air, and oTr every living thing
that moveth upon the earth
20. And God said: BeDld have given you
every herb Welding seed which is upon the
face of al the earth and every tree, in the
which is the fruit Of a tire yielding seed; to
you it shall be for meat.
80. And to every beastOf the earth and to
every fowl of the air andto everything that
.creepeth upon The earth, therein there is life,
have given every green aerb for meat; and
81. And God saw everything that he had
made, and behold it was Vry good, and there
was evening and thee was morning,
the sixth day.
Among the lighter tOrhes of the revi-
sion of the Old restamet are those that
occur in the well knOwTpassa ge. which is
here given as revised: But | know that
my Redeemer liveth. an that He shall
stand up at the last upn the earth. and
after my skin has beel thus destroyed.
yet from my flesh shall see God, whom l
shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall
behold and not another!
Another well known 'assage in Eccle-
siastes becomes: "Reaember also thy
Creator in the days ofthy youth or ever
-ttle evil day come or tie years draw nigh
when thou shalt say ave no pleasure in
them" The change iere is ''remember
also'' for remember iOw," with another
svarient, cor ever the N1l days Gomez for
Fwhile the evil days ONE not"
Among the minOl changes may he
vqu0ted ''The foolih scorned the guilt
offering, for fools maze a mock at sim"
The substitution + modern words for
archaic eXpressiOnsnas only taken place
where the word WIS not only obsolete,
but to the public uintelligible. "Coat of
mall" for inetaue, is substituted for
@Brieandine" in Jeremiah H., 3, where
the Almighty prOJises to raise an army
against Babylon, and against him that
lifteth himself unin his brigandine." For
fhe word "c0ehtrice" there is given
"basilisk," with adder as the marginal
alternative. ''I1e wimples and the crisp
ing pins" mentioned in Isaiah ill.,, %.
have altOgethemisappeared. "EmerOds,"
in l. Samuel V, 6, makes way for "hu-
mors." Habegeon is rendered in EXO-
dus xviii. as "eoat Of mail,' and in dob
XII. as ''the printed shaft"
Rev. DIR. ,Bmes Strong, of the Drew
Theological Seminary, prominent MEM
Der of the American revision committee,
makes the allowing statement regarding
the work ofrevision:
"The public are chiefly interested in
knowing h'w far the changes in the re-
vised versbn affect the meaning and in
terpretatim of important and familiar
passages. The account of the creation
has long leen bone Of contention among
scientists and they here, doubtless, ex-
pect great changes. Very few noteworthy
ones, bwever, appear in the opening
chapters Of Genesis. In H., ,, ended
Is CHANGED to 'inished,' so as 20 cores
pond with verse I. In verse 3, 'and every
plant N the field before IL was in the
earth, and every herb Of the field before II
grew becomes more accurately, 'and no
plant q the field was vet IN the earth, and
no herb or the field had yet sprung up
In yerse 10, became into four heads is
changed for the better English. became
four htads.' In verse IA, toward the east
is changed TO in 'front.' to suit the we'll
know geographical facts and as the He
brew term more literally means.
"The case Is similar with the story of