The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-22
The New Translation in the
Old Testament.
GUIDE TO THE CORRECTIONS.
The Old Book Has Been Changed So
that its Own Father Will
Not Know 1T
The Revised Testament

New YORK, May PA representa-
tive of Harper's said to-day, that the
cases of Old Testament would be re-
ceiyed by the firm at one minute past
midnight from the Custom House and
would probably reach the publication
office In a quarter of an hour The
deliveries would be made to customers
at 6 O'Clock Thursday morning, al
though earlier deliveries would be made
If desired. The entire distribution
would be made from publication Office
The edition is printed in plea, octave,
red edges, same as the Harper plea
edition OF the New Testament. The
work will be in four volumes and will
sell, at retail, for SO.
Thomas Nelson & Sons received their
oxford copies just after midnight. also,
and will serve customers about o'clock
Thursday morning. They expect a
fair demand, although not so
large as that for the New
Testament. This firm will receive
number of Oxford editions containing
both Testaments, as well as copies of
THE Parallel Bible" being the author
lied version arranged in parallel col
umnS with the revised version, in one
volume.
A force OF men was kept on duty, at
Harper's all night Until midnight
they had little to do, but then the truck
full of Bibles, which had been standing
few minutes at the front door, was
unloaded and the boxes passed under
department. hands and the books were
undergoing repacking in other boxes to
supply orders from the trade from all
parts of the country. Several truck
loads were thus handled during the
night.
NEW YORK, May 21.-Messrs. Funk g.
Wagnalls have published, in conjunc-
ton with the revised Old Testament, a
Companion" to it, from the pen of DR..
Chambers, one of the American re-
Yisers, who is familiar with the work
from the beginning. The progress of
the language rendered many changes
necessary of the words and phrases now
obsolete, and hence unintelligible. The
following are some specimens, all from
the Old Testament. There are many
renderings declared to be incorrect by
all lexicons and commentaries of a
critical character. For example, the
word "hypocrite' is found eight times
in the Book of Job, yet in not one of
them does the original term have that
meaning So one of the oblationS mem
toned often in the Pentateuch and
elsewhere, is called "meat Offering"
which leads the reader to suppose that
it is an animal sacrifice, whereas the
Hebrew means an unbloody oblation
and is correctly rendered meal offer
ing" In the following list the incor-
rect word is placed first, with reference
to one of the places where it occurs and
then the true meaning as accepted
among scholars: yA
SApotheeary Eek. Xxx. 25), perfumer.
Ayenging Judges w, leaders.
Bettern is. xiv, 23), porcupirie.
Borrow (Ex. XII, y, ash.
Breaches Judges V, 10 creeks or
harbors.
Candle Job XVIII. g., lamp. ,sf ;.
Caldron Ger. Lii, 1S), pot. eAl
College (II. Kings xxi, IA second
ward.
Coast (Jer. XIV, 32), uttermost part.
Crooked Dob XVI, 49,, feet or flee
ing.
Dead things (Job XVI, 81, the shader..
Diet Ger. hi, 34l. allowance. 55
Dragons FPS. lxxiv, 49,, monsters.
Dragons Job xxx, 29), jackals. u g
Dregs Us. Ii, I'D, bowl.
Flagons of WINE Hos. iii, u, pressed
grapes,
Fires Us. xiv, 15), the east. 4eto
Flood Joshua xiv, 14), the river.
Foxes Judges XIV, a, jackals.
Groves (Ex. xxxiy, 49,, pillars.
Galleries (Cant. VII, 81, curls of hair.
Grow up (Mat. ", p, leap.
Hats Dan iii, ., mantles. 9ts
The following selections of passages
which have been changed in the revi-'
sion is intended as a specimen of the
work done, and of the principles upon
which it has been carried out
Genesis; In the first chapter the putting
OF each days work in separate para
graph aids the common reader. In iv,
., song of Lamech is made more in
telligible by making the second couplet
read; For l have slain a man for
bruiSing me-" In xiii, 3, Abraham
went up out of Egypt in the South.
The printing of the last word with
capital letter shows it refers to a definite
region, the Negeb, and thus avoids the
ncongruity of the authorized YER
sion in leading one to think
that the patriarch reached
Palestine by going south from Egypt.
In V, Is, 1.-The Plain of Mamre which is
In Hebron" is changed to 1.-THE oaks of
Mamre which are in Hebron" because
this is the meaning of the Hebrew, and
there is no plain IN Hebron: or its
vicinity. $50, xiv, - and xviii, - In
xviii, 10, For 1 know him that he viii
command his children and his house
hold after him. is changed to For
have known him to the end that ne
may command" etc. In XIV, 2,
Abraham said to his eldest servant OF
MS household, y is made to read, "Abra-
ham said to his servant. the elder OF n :
house" which is what the Hebrew
means. In xxxiii, Is. "And Jacob
came to Salem, city of Shechen," the
revision reads. "Came in peace to the
city of Sheehem," because no such city
as Salem is known. In the prophecy
otJacob (Gen. xix, are several manifest
improvements. Reuben is charged with
being not unstable" but as the or,
sinal word means boiling over,
nat is, impuislve or excitable.
Which exactly describes his character,
as shownby his conducts0n various &C.
csslons. In the fifth verse. instruments
:" cruelty and in their habitations. On