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Why has there been so many edited versions of the 1611 king James version of the bible?
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∙ 11y ago
One of the main reasons is that the King James Bible is not copyrighted, and has been around for over 400 years! It has undergone three revisions, incorporating more than 100,000 changes, many due to punctuation, spelling, and printer's mistakes and omissions.
For example, Exodus 20:14 reads :-
Exo 20:14 KJV Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Instead, one version is known as the Adulterer's Bible because it omitted the word "not" and read:-
Exo 20:14 KJV Thou shalt commit adultery.
(The printer's Licence was removed, he was massively fined, and he died in prison).
Further, there are over 300 words in the King James that no longer mean what they meant in 1611. Despite all this the King James Bible is still accurate, believe it or not.
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