Hey everybody, it's Pastor Jonathan Shelley from Steadfast Baptist Church, and I wanted
to make a quick video just talking about the King James Bible and the idea that there could
possibly be a printer error or typographical error in the text.
Now I have a lot of different King James Bibles as far as just the editions or the publishers,
and there's one in particular that I really like to use, just its size and format.
But having read it several different times, this specific edition, I have actually caught
errors in just the printing of the text.
And I just think it's kind of funny.
In fact, in Exodus chapter 32, verse 32, specifically, in my version, it says, yet now if thou wilt
forgive their sinnoh, and if not blot me, I pray thee out of thy book, which thou hast
written.
So in my version, it literally has sinnoh, and it's pretty obvious why that happened.
I have another King James Version.
It's a really cheap one that I think I got from Vapour or something, but if you look
at it in the text, it says, yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin, and it has a big dash
line.
So it's pretty clear that understanding computer programming, these characters, how they were
stored in the database, the character line endings in the database just didn't line up
in the program, and so it substituted a Spanish character as opposed to this line character.
So it's really obvious why that particular typo had in the text.
But there's another one that I have in Numbers, and the one in Numbers is not necessarily
as obvious as that one, as far as how or why they made that mistake.
But in Numbers 24, in verse 6, it says, as the valleys are, they spread forth as gardens
by the riverous side, as the trees of linalos, which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar
trees beside the water.
So instead of saying rivers with a apostrophe, it actually says riverous with a eye with
kind of a tilde there, kind of like a Spanish eye that's accented.
And so again, this is just another small printing error that's there in the text.
And you know, I've actually posted this years ago.
I posted this on Facebook and other websites, of course, my Facebook's gone now, it's been
deleted.
But I've posted about this many times just thinking it was kind of funny that you could
find a printing error in the text.
But I guess there's been a controversy, people are acting as if King James Bibles can't have
printing errors or that this printing error is a new thing.
But really, if you study the history of the King James Bible, there's been printing errors
since the 1611.
And even now today, even modern Bibles and modern printing editions of it have typographical
errors have issues, it's very difficult to manufacture a book or print a book or publish
a book.
You know, it's very easy to make a mistake or to have some kind of an issue when printing
the text, especially even with computers and everything we have today, they still make
mistakes, let alone back then, when they actually happened to set all the characters and all
the letters, and then stamp it on a piece of paper.
If you've actually been to any museum and you've seen how they actually did this, it's
very tedious work, a lot of effort and energy.
And if you have a really interesting font, like they've used in the original 1611 King
James Bible, you know, those characters are even sometimes hard to discern the differences
between them.
They look kind of similar.
So it's actually really easy to make mistakes.
That's why the 1611 had a lot of printing errors and a lot of issues, and not just a
particular letter, even just adding words, missing words, and just lots of little mistakes
that were made throughout the text.
And you can even see, I posted a lot on my Twitter, a lot of examples of this, but even
in 1 John 5, verse 12, it has Son in the King James, whereas it's supposed to say Son
of God, and you can actually look up in the Greek and you can see it has of God.
You know, I hope that people wouldn't be ignorant of history or facts or reality.
That does not negate my trust or faith in the King James Bible.
It's still my final authority.
I love it.
I cherish it.
And I think if you truly loved and cherished the King James Bible, you would have no problem
identifying errors in the text and want them to be corrected or printing mistakes.
So as we actually preserve the King James Bible, those who would ignorantly just hug
a Bible and claim like, I'm just going to keep this no matter what, I don't care if
you find a printing mistake or not.
It's really kind of a superstitious bad attitude that could lead to keeping typographical errors
in the text.
I think it's important that we consider typographical errors and printing errors so that way we
make sure we preserve the King James Bible and what the translators intended.
But I just want to make a quick video showing a few of those things.
I am planning on preaching about that subject on Sunday night, God willing.
If I'm going down Sunday morning and we're ordaining Brother Salvador Alvarez as the
evangelist there at Pure Words, and then Sunday night, if I can drive back in time, I'll be
preaching on this topic of King James Bible translation and errors in the text and everything
like that Sunday night at St. Basp Baptist Church.
So I just want to make a quick video and put on the screen a few different of these examples.
But God bless you guys.
Have a great day.