The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-21

inconcruity Of the A. VI in leading one to think
that the Patriarch reached Palestine by going
south from Egypt
Hebron is changed to ''the oaks of Mamre,
which are in Hebron because this is the mean
ing of the Hebrew, and there is no plain IN
Hebron or its vicinity. $50. xiv ID, and xvii, L.
In xvii. 10, For know Him that He will COM
mand His children and His household after Him, :
is changed to. For | have known Him. to the
end that He may command" etc.
In xxxiii, H. "And Jacob came to Shalem o
city of Shechem;" the revision reads, Game in
peace to the city of Shechem.' because no such
city as Shalem is known.
In the prophecy of Jacob (Gen. l. xlix) are
several manifest improvements. Reuben is
charged with being not unstable" but, as the
original word means, boiling over'-that is,
'impusive or excitable which exactly describes
his character as shown by his conduct on
various occasions In the fifth verse, 'Instru-
ments of cruelty are in their habiliment, the
| margin Of the A. ", Weapons of violence are
their swords, is inserted in thu text as being
both more literal and more expressive. In the
ninth verse, instead of saying that Judas
Acouched as an old lion,n the revision returns to
Tyndal and the more accurate rendering, as a
lioness.n
Elk. iii, %. "a stranger in strange land is
rendered "a soiourner in strange land.
In the song of triumph, after passing the Red
sea xxv), the vividness and poetical grandeur Oh
the lyric shown in the revision by the change
of the past tense into the present, change re-
quired by the original
In the obscure passage (xxvii, 10y, the text re-
tains the rendering of the A. ", while the mar
gin gives the more literal sense of the Hebrew,
"because there is hand" O., the hand Of
Amelk against the throne of the Lord, therefore
the Lord will have war with Amelk for genera
ton to generation,
In the second commandment Xxx, 81 we have
slight change: visiting the iniquity of the faith
ers upon the children, upon the third and upon
the fourth generation of them that hate me the
exact sense of the Originally
The sixth command w. 13), is after the pattern
of the prayer book and the A ", in Matt. xix,
H. given as ''Thou shalt do no murder and the
same at Deut v, II. The advantage of this rem.
dering is that it needs no explanation. To kill
is often lawful and sometimes duty, but to DO
murder is wrong always and everywhere
Tabernacle Of the congregation" is changed to
''tent of meeting" In the word Jehovah" the
A. V. is followed, the revisers not thinking it
LORD or God" which, when printed by small
capitals, represent the words substituted.
Of technical terms from the Hebrew, one
in three seems to have been gener.
ally, introduced: The word grove
Judges vi. 28) has been replaced
by .'ashera," with its plural 'asherim'
and ashcroft" The historical books, Judges
lch. 81, the song of Deborah is amended accord
ing to the demand of modern scholarship.
Verses 10 and IL are rendered ''Tell of it, ye
| carpets, and We that walk by the way, far from
| the noise of archers. in the places of drawing
| water There shall they rehearse the righteous
acts Of the Lord"
II Samuel i, Is, A. ", reads, ''Bade them
| teach their children of Israel the use of the
bow" The revision puts it, Song Of the bow.
In ii, %, "Abner smote him under the fifth rib,
! is changed, in agreement with modern lexicon,
to 1.-THE belly" In vi, 10, instead of hagon OF
wlne," the revision properly reads "a cake OF
raisns."