Hi,

The original 1611 King James Bible first edition is available for reading and examining at the following link. To read it, I suggest that you set the page font at 8X. I have been reading through it and it is quite interesting. It is quite a thrill to read the original 1611 as it was printed almost 400 years ago. I have made some observations so far which I will mention later. How many of you have read this early edition?


Joe

http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti...TextID=kjbible

[Diligent]

Good link for those who want to see images of the original 1611 pages. I have a page from a 1611 printing (first printing) with Psalm 138:2 on my office wall.

For those interested in a more easily searchable form of the 1611 edition text, the 1611 edition text has been part of SwordSearcher for several years now.

[Josh]

I have a 1611 Edition reprint, but I got it prior to knowing anything about the Bible debate, different texts and such. It pretty much just sits on the shelf now, I really have no reason study it when God has purified it for me in it's 1769 Edition.

Hi Josh,

Does your 1611 Edition reprint have marginal notes?

I was just looking at Genesis 1 and saw some interesting marginal notes about the literal reading of a portion of the Hebrew text and noted the beautiful way in which the KJV translators rendered the Hebrew idiomatic use into excellent English in the Bible text.


Joe

[Josh]

Yes it does. I'll have to look at that passage tonight and see if mine has the same notes.

Thank you Josh. What I was referring to in particular is the following verse:

Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkenesse.

The marginal note reads: Hebr. betweene the light and betweene the darkenesse


http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti...agePosition=77

Joe

[Josh]

This is the copy I have. If you click on "Look inside" it is there.

Thank you Josh. It looks the same as far as I can tell, except the original 1611 has Gothic type instead of regular type.

Joe

[bibleprotector]

Originally Posted by Josh

I have a 1611 Edition reprint, but I got it prior to knowing anything about the Bible debate, different texts and such. It pretty much just sits on the shelf now, I really have no reason study it when God has purified it for me in it's 1769 Edition.

Did you know the 1769 Edition read "Beer-sheba, Sheba" in Joshua 19:2? And that some editions today have "Beer-sheba, and Sheba", while others have "Beer-sheba, or Sheba"?

There are plenty of variations between editions which are based on the 1769 Edition:
http://www.bibleprotector.com/editions.htm

It is true that God did purity the KJB for us to the 1769 Edition, but I believe that He has gone one step further. The solution is to see that God has supplied us with one pure edition which comes from the 1769 Edition:
http://www.bibleprotector.com/purecambridgeedition.htm

Bibleprotector wrote: Did you know the 1769 Edition read "Beer-sheba, Sheba" in Joshua 19:2? And that some editions today have "Beer-sheba, and Sheba", while others have "Beer-sheba, or Sheba"?

I have not looked at these variations in editions recently but the original 1611 KJV has "Beer-sheba, or Sheba".

http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti...gePosition=328

Joe