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The Parallel Bible. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments translated out of the Original Tongues: being the Authorised Version arranged in parallel columns with the Revised Version (Oxford University Press, 1885).

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CLASSES OF PASSAGES.

I. Substitute the Divine name “Jehovah” wherever it occurs in the Hebrew text, for “the Lord” and “God” and omit the marg. to “the Lord” at Gen. ii. 4, and “Heb. Jehoiah” from the marg. at Ex. in. 15; also substitute “Jehovah” for “the Lord” or “Jah” wherever the latter occurs in the Hebrew text, and retain or insert “Heb. Jah” in the marg.; where “Jehovah” immediately follows, viz. in Is. xii. 2, xxvi. 4, read “Jehovah, even Jehovah” and omit “Jehovah” from the marg.
II. Substitute “Sheol” wherever it occurs in the Hebrew text, for the renderings “the grave” “the pit” and “hell” and omit these renderings from the marg.
III. Substitute “a” for “an”, “my” for “mine” and “thy” for “thine” wherever followed by “h” aspirated.
IV. Substitute “who” or “that” for “which” when used of persons.
V. Substitute “are” for “be” in the present indicative, and omit “for” before infinitives.
VI. Omit from the margin all renderings from the lxx., Vulgate, and other ancient Versions or “authorities”
VII. The following substitutions are preferred, with the necessary inflectional variations:
- “adder” for “basilisk”
- “annul” for “disannul”
- “ascent” for “going up” when used as a noun.
- “astonished” for “astonied”
- “a year old” for “of the first year”
- “base man” for “man of Belial” or “son of B.”; “base woman” for “daughter of Belial”; “base men” for “men of Belial” “sons of B” or “children of B.”
- “before” for “afore”; also for “or ever” except in Ps. xc. 2; Eccl. xii. 1, 2, 6.
- “blow the trumpet” for “blow with (or, “blow up”) the trumpet”
- “boil” “boiled” for “seethe” “sod” “sodden”
- “bonds” for “bands” in Job xxxix. 5, and elsewhere uniformly for the same Hebrew word.
- “capital” for “chapiter”
- “chiefs” for “dukes”
- “contend” for “plead” in Judg. vi. 31 (three times) and so wherever the latter rendering represents the same Hebrew verb unless followed by “cause”, except in Is. i. 17. But substitute “enter into judgment” for “plead” in Jer. xxv. 31; Ezek. xvii. 20; xx. 35, 36 (twice).
- “courses” for “rows” of timber or stone.
- “devise” for “imagine” in Ps. x. 2; xxi. 11; cxl. 2; Hos. vii. 15; Nah. i. 9, 11; Zech. vii. 10; viii. 17.
- “diminish” for “minish”
- “encamp” for “camp”; also, for “pitch” when used intransitively.
- “far be it from me” (“thee” etc.) for “God forbid”, except in 1 Sam. xiv. 45; xx. 2, where substitute “Far from it”
- “find favour” for “find grace”
- “food” for “meat”
- “fortified” for “fenced” and “defenced”
- “frighten” for “fray”
- “grain” for “corn”
- “harlot” for “whore” and “whorish woman”; “play the harlot” for “go a whoring” and “commit whoredom”
- “helped” for “holpen”
- “know” and “knew” for “wot” and “wist”
- “knoweth how” for “can skill” in 1 Kings v. 6; 2 Chron. ii. 7, 8.
- “lain” for “lien”
- “lamp” for “candle”
- “lovingkindness” for “mercy” in Gen. xix. 19; for “favour” in Job x. 12; for “goodness” in Ps. cvii. 8; “lovingkindnesses” for “mercies” in 2 Chron. vi. 42. So substitute “lovingkindness” for either of these renderings wherever it stands for the same Hebrew word (hhésed) when used of God; but substitute “kindness” for “mercy” in Ps. cix. 12, 16; for “favour” in Esth. ii. 17, and wherever either of these renderings stands for the same Hebrew word, when used of men in relation to each other. In Hos. vi. 4 retain “goodness” and make ver. 6 conform.
- “merciful” for “full of compassion”
- “mound” for “mount” (cast up by invaders)
- “new wine” for “wine” in Gen. xxvii. 28, and elsewhere uniformly for the same Hebrew word.
- “number” for “tell” in Gen. xv. 5 (twice); Ps. xlviii. 12; lvi. 8; Jer. xxxiii. 13; and “count” for “tell” in 1 Kings viii. 5; 2 Kings xii. 10; 2 Chron. v. 6; Ps. cxlvii. 4.
- “oil” for “ointment”
- “olive oil” for “oil olive”
- “perfumer” for “apothecary” and “confectionary”
- “perverse” (“perverseness”) for “froward” (“frowardness”) except in 2 Sam. xxii. 27; Job v. 13; Ps. xviii. 26; “wayward” for “perverse” in Prov. ii. 15; for “froward” in iv. 24; xvii 20, and “cunning” for “froward” in Job v. 13.
- “put to shame” for “ashamed”
- “refine” for “fine” (metal). So “refiner” for “finer”
- “scoffer” for “scorner” and “scoffing” for “scornful” and “scorning”
- “settings” for “ouches”
- “since” for “sith”
- “sitteth above” (the cherubim) for “sitteth upon” with marg. Or, is enthroned
- “skill” for “cunning” (noun) and “skilful” for “cunning” (adj.) when either relates to workman or work.
- “stench” for “stink”, when used as a noun.
- “stronghold” for “hold”, when used as a noun.
- “take refuge” for “trust” (Deut. xxxii. 37) for “put . . . trust” (Ps. ii. 12), and so uniformly as the rendering of the same Hebrew verb.
- “therewith” for “withal” in Ex. xxv. 29; xxx. 4; xxxvii. 16; Lev. xi. 21.
- “trespass offering” for “guilt offering”
- “uncover” for “discover” except in 1 Sam. xiv. 3, 11, and xxii. 6.
- “wail” for “howl” where it is used of persons.
- “wait for” for “wait on” in Ps. xxv. 3, and so uniformly as the rendering of the same Hebrew verb, except in Ps. lii. 9.
- “which” for “the which”
- “winnow” for “fan” (the verb)
- “wrath” for “fury” when it is attributed to God, except in Is. xlii. 25; lxvi. 15, and “wrathful” for “furious”
VIII. The modern spelling is preferred for the following words:
- “basin” for “bason”
- “brazen” for “brasen”
- “caterpillar” for “caterpiller”
- “ceiled” and “ceiling” for “cieled” and “cieling”
- “chapped” for “chapt”
- “crookbacked” for “crookbackt”
- “drove” for “drave”
- “establish” for “stablish”
- “forego” for “forgo”
- “jubilee” for “jubile”
- “judgment” for “judgement”
- “plaster” for “plaister”
- “prancing” for “pransing”
- “prized” for “prised”
- “show” for “shew”
- “streaks” for “strakes” and “ring-streaked” for “ringstraked”
- “subtile” for “subtil”
- “thoroughly” for “throughly”
- “while” for “whiles”
- “winevat” for “winefat”

**GENESIS.**
XII.	16	For “entreated Abram well” read “dealt well with Abram”
XV.	2	For “Dammesck Eliezer” read “Eliezer of Damascus”
XVIII.	19	For “justice and judgement” read “righteousness and justice” So in Prov. xxi 3.
XXIII.	6	Substitute the marg. (“a prince of God”) for the text.
XXVII.	15	For “raiment” read “garments”
XXXII.	31	For “halted” read “went halting”
XXXIII.	13	For “give suck” read “have their young”
XXXIV.	30	For “to stink among” read “odious to”
XXXV.	5	Substitute the marg. (“a terror of God”) for the text.
	16	For “way” read “distance” So in xlviii. 7, and in marg. of 2 Kings v. 19.
XLIX.	3	For “excellency” read “pre-eminence” (twice) So in ver. 4.
	4	For “Unstable” read “Boiling over” and omit the marg.

**EXODUS.**
I.	21	For “houses” read “households”
V.	22, 23	For “evil entreated” read “dealt ill with” So in Deut. xxvi. 6.
XV.	9	For “lust” read “desire”
	15	For “amazed” read “dismayed” So in Judg. xx. 41.
XVII.	14	Add marg. to “a book” Or, the book
XIX.	5	For “a peculiar treasure unto me” read “mine own possession” So for “a peculiar treasure” in Mal. iii. 17.
XXI.	29	For “but that” read “but”
XXIII.	5	Read “thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release it with him.”
	21	For “of him” read “before him”
XXV.	38	For “tongs” read “snuffers” So in Num iv. 9; 2 Chron. iv. 21.
XXVII.	21	For “order it” read “keep it in order” So in Lev. xxiv. 3, 4
XXXIV.	6	For “plenteous” read “abundant” So in Num. xiv. 18; Neh. ix. 17; Ps. lxxxvi. 5, 15; ciii. 8; Joel ii. 13; Jonah iv. 2.
XXXVIII.	8	For “serving . . . served” read “ministering . . . ministered”

**LEVITICUS.**
IX.	2	For “bull calf” read “calf of the herd”
XVI.	8	Marg.² for “dismissal” read “removal”
XVIII.	18	For “woman” read “wife”

**NUMBERS.**
V.	21, 22	For “belly” read “body” So in xxv. 8; Judg. iii. 21, 22; Prov. xviii. 8.
VII.	13	For “charger” read “platter” So throughout the Chap. and in Ezra i. 9 (twice).
XIX.	9, 13, 20, 21	For “of separation” read “for impurity” So in xxxi. 23.
XXIII.	21	To “perverseness” add marg. Or, trouble

**DEUTERONOMY.**
III.	25	To “mountain” add marg. Or, hill country
IV.	29	Read “But from thence ye shall seek . . . and thou shalt find him when thou searchest” etc.
	34	Substitute the marg. (“trials”) for the text. So in vii. 19; xxix. 3.
VII.	6	For “a peculiar people unto himself” read “a people for his own possession” So in xiv. 2; xxvi. 18.
IX.	1	For “possess” read “dispossess” So in xi. 23; xii. 2, 29; xviii. 14; xxxi. 3.
XVII.	15	For “in any wise” read “surely” So in xxii. 7.
XXIII.	16	For “liketh” read “pleaseth” So in Esth. viii. 8; Amos iv. 5.
XXVI.	17	For “shouldest” read “wouldest”
XXVIII.	53	For “straitness . . . straiten” read “distress . . . distress” So in verses 55, 57 and in Jer. xix. 9.
	67	For “Would God” read “Would”
XXXI.	21	For “go about, even now” read “frame this day”
XXXII.	27	For “misdeem” read “judge amiss”
	39	For “have wounded” read “wound”
XXXIII.	3	For “peoples” read “people”
	6	For “Yet” read “Nor” and add marg. Or, But
	14	Add marg. to “moons” Or, months

**JOSHUA.**
II.	9	For “your terror” read “the fear of you”
IV.	24	For “they” read “ye” omitting marg¹
V.	11	Substitute marg⁵ (“produce”) for the text. So in ver. 12.
	14, 15	Substitute marg⁶ (“prince”) for the text.
VIII.	33	Let the marg. (“commanded” etc.) and the text exchange places.
IX.	5	For “clouted” read “patched”
XVI.	1	Read “And the lot came out for the children of Joseph”
XVII.	2	For “And” read “So”
XXII.	10	For “see to” read “look upon”
	22	Read “The Mighty One, God, Jehovah” and omit marg.² So in Ps. l. 1.

**JUDGES.**
III.	1	For “as many” read “as many of Israel”
	20	For “his summer parlour” read “the cool upper room” Omit marg.²
	23	For “parlour” read “upper room” So in verses 24, 25.
	24	For “his summer” read “the upper”
V.	13	Prefix to marg. upon “Then came down” etc. Or, Then go down, O remnant, for the nobles . . . O Jehovah, go down for me against the mighty
	26	Substitute marg.¹⁵ (“tent-pin”) for the text.
IX.	15	For “shadow” read “shade” So in Job xl. 22; Is. iv. 6; xvi. 3; xxv. 4, 5; xxxii. 2; xxxiv. 15; Ezek. xvii 23; Jonah iv. 5, 6.
	33	For “set upon” read “rush upon”
	52	For “went hard” read “drew near”
XI.	39	For “had known” read “knew”
XIII.	12	Substitute the marg. (“ordering”) for the text.
		Substitute the marg. (“how shall we do unto him”) for text.
XV.	15	For “new” read “fresh”
XIX.	3	Omit marg.⁵ “Another reading is” etc.

**RUTH.**
II.	10	For “stranger” read “foreigner” So in 2 Sam. xv. 19.
III.	11	For “virtuous” read “worthy” So in Prov. xii. 4; xxxi. 10.

**1 SAMUEL.**
II.	20	For “loan . . . lent to” read “petition . . . asked of”
	26	For “was in” read “increased in”
III	1	Substitute marg.⁵ (“frequent”) for the text.
IX.	5	For “take thought” read “be anxious”
	14	For “against” read “toward”
X.	2	For “the care of” read “off caring for”
		For “taketh thought” read “is anxious”
XIV.	24	For “God save” read “Long live”
	24	For “but Saul” read “for Saul had”
XV.	47	Substitute marg.⁵ (“put them to the worse”) for the text.
	32	Substitute marg.⁶ (“cheerfully”) for the text.
XXIII	7	Omit marg.¹ to “delivered”
XXIV.	11	For “soul” read “life”
XXV.	13	For “stuff” read “baggage” So in xxx. 24.
	22	Omit margins.
XXX.	13	For “agone” read “ago”

**2 SAMUEL.**
V.	2	For “feed” read “be shepherd of” So in vii. 7; 1 Chron. xi. 2 and xvii. 6.
X.	12	For “men” read “man”
XIV.	5	For “widow woman” read “widow” So in 1 Kings xvii. 9, 10.
	26	Read “And when he cut the hair of . . . he cut it; because it was . . . he cut it:”

**1 KINGS.**
V	4	For “occurrent” read “occurrence”
VI.	6	For “rebatements” read “offsets”
VII	28, 29	Substitute marg.⁷ (“panels”) for the text.
X.	15	For “chapmen” read “traders” So in 2 Chron. ix. 14
	16	For “targets . . . target” read “bucklers . . . buckler” So in 2 Chron. ix. 15.
	17	For “pound” read “pounds”
XIV.	3	For “cracknels” read “cakes”
XVII.	12, 14, 16	For “barrel” read “jar” So read “jars” in xviii. 33.
XVIII.	21	For “halt ye” read “go ye halting”
XXII.	34	For “harness” read “armour” So in 2 Chron. xviii. 33.

**2 KINGS.**
II.	23	Put marg² (“young lads”) in the text.
	24	For “children” read “lads”
IX.	30	For “tired” read “attired”
	32	For “eunuchs” read “officers” putting the present text in the marg. and similarly for the same word in all other instances.
XII.	9	Substitute marg.³ (“threshold”) for the text, and so uniformly elsewhere with similar text and marg.
XV.	5	For “several” read “separate” with marg.⁵ Or, infirmary So in 2 Chron. xxvi. 21.
XVII.	6	For “in Habor, on the” read “on the Habor, the” So in xviii. 11.
	34	For “manners” read “manner”
XIX.	4	For “reproach” read “defy” with corresponding change in verses 22, 23. So in Is. xxxvii. 4, 17, 23, 24.
	7	For “a rumour” read “tidings” So in Is. xxxvii. 7; Jer. x 22; li. 46 (3 times).
	35	For “they . . . corpses” read “these . . . bodies” So in Is. xxxvii. 36.

**1 CHRONICLES.**
IV.	43	For “dwelt” read “have dwelt”
IX.	19	Substitute marg.⁶ (“Tent”) for the text. So in ver. 23.
	28	For “tale were they” read “count were these” (twice)
XII.	15	For “overflown” read “overflowed”
XX.	4, 6	Omit margins.
XXI.	12	For “coasts” read “borders”
	13	For “now” read “I pray”
XXVIII.	12	For “spirit” read “Spirit”

**2 CHRONICLES.**
II.	9	For “wonderful great” read “great and wonderful”
III.	17	Marg.⁵ omit “perhaps”
XIII.	7	For “vain” read “worthless”
XIV.	14	For “spoiled” read “made spoil of”
XXII.	6	Omit marg.¹ except “So in 2 Kings viii. 29”
XXX.	22	For “were well skilled” read “had good understanding”
XXXIV.	12	For “could skill of” read “were skilful with”
XXXVI.	3	For “amerced” read “fined”
	17	For “ancient” read “hoary headed”

**EZRA.**
IV.	13	For “endamage” read “be hurtful unto”
IX.	3	For “mantle” read “robe” So in ver. 5; also in Job i. 20; ii. 12. Ps. cix 29; and “mantle” for “cloke” in Is. lix. 17.

**NEHEMIAH.**
IV.	4	For “to spoiling” read “for a spoil”

**ESTHER.**
II.	17	For “grace and favour” read “favour and kindness”

**JOB.**
I.	1	For “eschewed” read “turned away from”
	6	For “there was a day . . . and Satan” read “it came to pass on the day when . . . that Satan” So in ii. 1.
	8	For “escheweth” read “turneth away from” So in ii. 3.
	22	For “with foolishness” read “foolishly”, and add marg. Or, attributed folly to God
III.	4	For “regard it from above” read “from above seek for it”
	11	For “when I” etc, read “when my mother bare me?”
	19	For “great” read “the great”
	34	For “roarings” read “groanings” and add marg. “Heb. roarings” and make corresponding change in Ps. xxii. 1; xxxii. 3.
IV.	4	For “confirmed” read “made firm”
	6	Read “And the integrity of thy ways thy hope?”
VI.	2	Read in the 2nd line “And all my calamity laid in the balances!”
	10	Read “And be it still my consolation,
		Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not,” etc.
		3rd line. Substitute the marg. (“That”) for the text.
	13	For “effectual working” read “wisdom” and omit marg.⁹ So in xii. 16.
	25	Read “But your reproof, what doth it reprove?”
	26	For “imagine” read “think”
VII.	4	Substitute marg.¹ (“When shall I arise, and the night be gone?”) for the text.
	7	For “wind” read “a breath”
	17	For “thine heart” read “thy mind”
VIII.	17	For “heap” read “stone-heap”
IX	19	Substitute marg.¹⁵ (If we speak of strength, lo, he is mighty!”) for the text.
		For “who will appoint me a time?” read “who, saith he, will summon me?”
X.	22	1st line; read “The land dark as midnight;”
		2nd line; for “A land” read “The land”
		3rd line; for “darkness” read “midnight” and add marg. Heb. thick darkness
XI.	6	For “That it” read “For he”
		For “effectual working” read “understanding” and omit marg.
XII.	4	2nd line; read “I who called upon God and he answered:”
	23	For “destroyeth” read “he destroyeth”
		2nd line; read “He enlargeth the nations, and he leadeth them captive” and omit marg.⁵
	24	For “the heart of” read “understanding from”
XIII.	8	For “respect his person” read “show partiality to him” and omit marg.⁸
	10	For “respect persons” read “show partiality” and omit marg.¹¹
	11	For “excellency” read “majesty” So in xxxi. 23.
	15	Read “Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope” and substitute the present text for marg.¹³
	16	Substitute marg.¹⁶ (“That”) for the text, substituting a comma for the preceding semicolon.
	18	For “ordered my cause” read “set my cause in order” So in xxiii. 4.
	27	For “drawest thee a line about” read “settest a bound to”
XIV.	10	For “wasteth away” read “is laid low”
	11	For “decayeth” read “wasteth”
	19	For “And” read “So”
XV.	8	For “restrain” read “limit”
	11	2nd line; read “Even the word that is gentle toward thee”
	12	For “wink” read “flash”
	27	For “made collops of fat on his flanks” read “gathered fat upon his loins”
	29	Let marg.¹⁴ (“their possessions” etc.) and the text exchange places.
XVII.	2	For “abideth in” read “dwelleth upon”
	6	For “He hath made me also” read “But he hath made me”
		For “And I am become an open abhorring” read “And they spit in my face” and omit marg.¹
XVIII.	12	Let marg.¹⁰ (“at his side”) and the text exchange places.
	13	Read “The members of his body shall be devoured”
XIX.	17	For “children of my mother’s womb” read “children of mine own mother”
XIX.	25, 26	Read
		(25) “But as for me, I know that my redeemer liveth,
		And at last he shall stand up upon the earth;
		(26) And after my skin, even this body, is destroyed,
		Then without my flesh shall I see God”
		and put the present text of ver. 26 in the marg.
	27	For “Whom I” read “Whom I, even I,”
		Let marg.¹³ (“on my side”) and the text exchange places.
		Substitute marg.¹⁴ (“as a stranger”) for the text.
	28	Substitute marg.¹⁵ (“And that”) for the text.
XXI.	14	For “Yet they said” read “And they say”
	21	Omit “in the midst”
	32	For “And shall keep” read “And men shall keep”
XXII.	14	Substitute marg.⁶ (“on the vault”) for the text.
XXIV.	4	For “hide themselves together” read “all hide themselves”
	10	For “an-hungred” read “hungry”
	12	For “imputeth it not for folly” read “regardeth not the folly”
XXVIII.	4	Omit “that passeth by”
	17	For “the exchange thereof be” read “it be exchanged for”
XXIX.	6	For “rivers” read “streams” So in Ps. cxix. 136; Prov. v 16; Is. xxxii. 2; Lam. iii. 48.
XXXI.	2	For “of God from above” read “from God above”
		For “of the Almighty from on high” read “from the Almighty on high”
	18	For “I have been her guide” read “her have I guided”
	31	For “satisfied” read “filled” So in Ps. civ. 13.
		For “flesh” read “meat” Omit marg.⁸
XXXII.	19	For “belly” read “breast” and omit marg.⁸
XXXIV.	29	Transpose “alike” to the beginning of the line.
XXXV.	6	1st line; for “doest” read “effectest”
XXXVI.	18	Read “For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements” and put the present text in the marg.
XXXVII.	1	For “At this also” read “Yea, at this”
	2	For “Hearken ye unto” read “Hear, oh, hear”
	21	For “cleanseth” read “cleareth”
XXXVIII.	10	For “prescribed for it my decree” read “marked out for it my bound” and omit marg.¹⁴
	18	For “the breadth of the earth” read “the earth in its breadth”
	30	Read “hide themselves and become like stone”
	41	For “food” read “prey”
XXXIX.	5	2nd line; for “wild ass” read “swift ass”
	13	For “wing . . . rejoiceth” read “wings . . . wave proudly”
		2nd line, read “But are they the pinions and plumage of love?” with marg. to “love” Or, a stork
	16	Let marg.¹ (“dealeth hardly with”) and the text exchange places.
	28	Read “On the cliff she dwelleth and maketh her home,
		Upon the point of the cliff,” etc.
XL.	15	For “with” read “as well as” and add marg. Heb. with
	19	For “can make his sword to approach unto him” read “giveth him his sword” and omit marg.²
XLI.	12	For “comely proportion” read “goodly frame”
	18	For “neesings” read “sneezings”

**THE PSALMS.**
II.	1	For “imagine” read “meditate” and omit marg.⁴ So in xxxviii. 12.
V.	7	For “multitude” read “abundance” So in lxix. 13; Ezek. xxviii. 16; Hos. ix. 7; x. 1.
	8	For “plain” read “straight” and add marg. Or, level
IX.	17	For “return to” read “be turned back unto”
X.	14	Read “to requite it with thy hand” and put the present text in the marg.
XII.	2	For “vanity” read “falsehood”
	5	For “for” read “because of” (twice)
XVI.	2	For “I have said” read “O my soul, thou hast said”
	4	Substitute the marg. (“give gifts for”) for the text.
	10	Add to marg.¹³ “Another reading is, holy ones”
XVII.	7	Restore the rendering of the Authorised Version.
	9	For “spoil” read “oppress”
	15	For “with thy likeness” read “with beholding thy form” and omit “Heb. form” from marg.⁶
XVIII.	7	For “moved” read “quaked”
XXI.	3	For “preventest” read meetest”
XXII.	8	2nd line; for “deliver” read “rescue”
	10	Read “Thou art my God since my mother bare me.”
	16	For marg.⁸ substitute “Or, Like a lion”
	20	Add in marg. “Or, dear life” So in xxxv 17.
XXIV.	6	Substitute marg.⁶ (“even Jacob”) for the text.
XXVI.	4	For “vain persons” read “men of falsehood”
XXVIII.	9	For “Feed them” read “Be their shepherd”
XXX.	4	Read “to his holy memorial name” and omit marg.⁹ except “See Ex. iii. 15.” So and with the same margin in xcvii. 12, and in Hos. xii 5.
	5	Let marg.¹⁰ (“His favour is for a life time”) and the text exchange places.
XXXIII.	5	For “judgment” read “justice” So in lxxxix 14; xcvii. 2; xcix. 4 (twice); Prov i. 3; ii. 8, 9; xxi. 7, 15; Is. i. 27; v. 7, x. 2; xxviii. 17; xxxii. 1, 16; xxxiii. 5, lix. 8, 9, 11, 14, 15; lxi. 8; Jer. iv. 2; ix. 24.
XXXV.	15	For “when I halted” read “in mine adversity” and add marg. Heb. my limping
XXXVII.	3	Read “feed on his faithfulness” and put in marg. “Or, verily thou shalt be fed”
	20	Let the marg. (“the fat of lambs”) and the text exchange places.
	37	Read “there is a happy end to the man of peace” and omit marg.⁶
	38	For “The latter end” read “The end”
XXXVIII.	8	For “roared” read “groaned” and add marg. Heb. roared
	17	For “halt” read “fall” So for “halting” in Jer. xx. 10.
XLI.	6	Substitute marg.⁶ (“falsehood”) for the text.
XLII.	5	For “health” read “help” So in ver. 11 and in xliii. 5.
XLIV.	2	Read “but them thou didst plant;”
		“but them thou didst spread abroad.” Omit marg.⁴
XLVII.	4	For “excellency” read “glory”
XLIX.	8	For “soul” read “life”
		For “And must be let alone” read “And it faileth”
	10	For “together” read “alike”
	12	Substitute the marg. (“being in honour abideth not”) for the text.
L.	23	For “conversation” read “way”
LI.	11	For “spirit” read “Spirit”
	12	Substitute marg.³ (“willing”) for the text
LII.	9	For “wait on” read “hope in”
LVI.	4	Read “In God, (I will praise his word),” So in ver 10.
	10	2nd line; read “In Jehovah, (I will praise his word),”
LVIII.	2	For “Yea” read “Nay”
	9	For marg. on “He shall take” substitute Or, Wrath shall take them away while living as with a whirlwind
LIX.	9	Read “Because of his strength”
	10	Read “My God with his lovingkindness shall meet me”
LXII.	1	For “only upon God” read “in silence for God only” So in ver. 5.
	3	For “bowing” read “leaning”
	4	For “excellency” read “dignity”
LXIII.	1	For “early” read “earnestly” and omit marg.⁹ So in Is. xxvi. 9.
LXV.	3	For “purge them away” read “forgive them” and add marg. “Or, expiate” So in lxxix. 9 read “forgive our sins” with the same marg.
	4	For “The holy place of thy temple” read “Thy holy temple”
LXVII.	2	For “saving health” read “salvation”
LXVIII.	1	Add marg. to “Let God arise” “Or, God ariseth: and so throughout verses 1, 2, 3.”
	8	For “Even yon Sinai” read “That Sinai”
	13	Read “When ye lie among the sheepfolds, It is as the wings” etc., and substitute the present text for marg.³
	18	For “led thy captivity captive” read “led away captives”
	20	Read “belongeth escape from death”
	23	Read “That thou mayest crush them, dipping”
	33	For “heavens of heavens” read “heaven of heavens”
LXXIII.	10	For “wrung out” read “drained” and omit marg.⁹
	27	For “from thee” read “departing from thee”
LXXIV.	6	Omit “together”
LXXV.	8	For “wring them out” read “drain them” and omit marg.¹⁵
LXXVI.	5	For “spoiled” read “become a spoil”
LXXVII.	10	Marg.² for “That the” read “This is my grief that the”
LXXIX.	8	For “prevent” read “meet”
LXXXIX.	37	Omit all after “for ever” in marg.³
XC.	9	Substitute “sigh” from marg.¹ for “tale that is told”
	17	For “beauty” read “favour” and put the present text in the margin.
XCII.	13	Read “They are . . . Jehovah;” and for “Shall” read “They shall”
XCIII.	1	For “apparelled” read “clothed” (twice) and read in the second line, “Jehovah is clothed with strength; he hath girded himself therewith”
XCVII.	5	For “hills” read “mountains”
CII.	12	For “memorial” read “memorial name” and add marg. “See Ex. iii. 15.” So in cxxxv. 13.
CIII.	5	For “mouth” read “desire”
CIV.	4	2nd line; read “Flames of fire his ministers.”
	8	Read “(The mountains rose, the valleys sank,)” substituting the present text for marg.³
	16	For “satisfied” read “filled with moisture” and omit marg⁸
	25	For “Yonder” read “There”
CV.	34	For “cankerworm” read “grasshopper”
CVII.	30	Read “their desired haven.” and omit marg²
CX.	2	Add marg. to “rod” Or, sceptre
	3	Read “in the day of thy power, in holy attire; out of the womb” etc. and omit marg.⁴ and marg.⁶
CXI.	10	For “thereafter” read “his commandments”
CXVI.	1	For “hath heard” read “heareth”
CXIX.	38	For “thy word unto thy servant” read “unto thy servant thy word”
		For “belongeth” read “is in order”
	121	For “judgement and justice” read “justice and righteousness”
	147, 148	For “prevented” read “anticipated”
	158	Omit “dealers”
CXXII.	4	For “a testimony unto Israel” read “an ordinance for Israel” and add marg. Heb. testimony
CXXVI.	1	Substitute marg.¹ (“brought back” etc.) for the text.
CXXX.	6	For “looketh” read “waiteth”
		2nd line; for “watchmen look” read “watchmen wait”
CXXXV.	4	For “his peculiar treasure” read “his own possession”
CXXXIX.	13	For “hast possessed” read “didst form” and omit marg.³
		For “hast covered” read “didst cover”
	16	For “unperfect” read “unformed”
	22	For “I count them” read “They are become”
CXLIII.	2	Read “no man living is righteous.”
CXLIV.	7	For “strangers” read “aliens” So in ver. 11.
	8	For “vanity” read “deceit” So in ver. 11.

**THE PROVERBS.**
IV.	7	For “thou hast gotten” read “thy getting” and put the present text in the marg.
	18	For “shining” read “dawning” and omit marg.³
VII.	9	For “blackness of night and the” read “middle of the night and in the”
	22	For “as fetters” read “as one in fetters” Omit marg.²
IX.	7	For “shame” read “reviling”
X.	7	For “just” read “righteous” So in xx. 7.
XI.	16	For “retaineth . . . retain” read “obtaineth . . . obtain”
XIX.	22	Substitute marg.³ (“That which maketh a man to be desired is his kindness”) for the text.
	26	For “spoileth” read “despoileth”
XX.	20	For “the blackest darkness” read “blackness of darkness”
XXI.	28	Substitute marg² (“so as to endure”) for the text.
XXII.	13	Substitute the marg. (“slain”) for the text.
XXIII.	7	For “reckoneth” read “thinketh”
	32	Omit marg.⁶ “Or, a basilisk”
XXIV.	15	For “Spoil” read “Despoil” So Jer. xlvii. 4.
XXV.	11	For “baskets” read “network” and omit marg.
XXVI.	8	Read “As one that bindeth a stone in a sling”
XXVII.	4	For “outrageous” read “overwhelming”
XXIX.	21	Omit marg. to “a son”
XXXI.	29	For “virtuously” read “worthily”
	30	For “Favour” read “Grace”

**ECCLESIASTES.**
I	1	Omit “Or, the great orator” from marg.¹
II.	8	Let the former part of marg.¹⁰ and the text exchange places, and omit the remainder of the marg.
III.	11	Let marg.⁷ (“eternity”) and the text exchange places.
	19	Omit marg. “Or, the sons of men are” etc.
V.	7	Read “For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words:” from margin.
VI.	10	For “that it is man” read “what man is”
VII.	15	For “the days of my vanity” read “my days of vanity”
X.	1	For “a stinking savour” read “an evil odour”
XI.	10	For “prime” read “dawn”
XII.	1	For “or ever” read “while” So in verses 2 and 6.
		For “come, and” read “come not, nor”
	2	Read “the sun is not darkened, nor the light, nor the moon, nor the stars, and . . . return not”
	5	Let marg.¹⁵ (“desire”) and the text exchange places.
	6	Read “is not loosed, nor . . . nor . . . nor” etc. and for “be broken” read “broken” (twice)

**THE SONG OF SONGS.**
II.	7	For “love” read “my love” and for “it” read “he” with marg. Or, it Or, she So in iii. 5, and viii. 4.
V.	3	For “coat” read “garment”
VI.	4	For “Terrible” read “Overpowering” and put the present text in the margin. So in ver. 10.
VII.	1	For “The joints of thy” read “Thy rounded” from margin.
	2	For “navel” read “body”
		For “belly” read “waist”
	7	For “clusters of grapes.” read “its clusters.”

**ISAIAH.**
I.	14	For “to bear” read “of bearing”
II.	4	Substitute marg.¹² (“decide concerning”) for the text. So in Mic. iv. 3.
III.	2	For “ancient” read “elder” from margin. So in ix. 15.
	3	For “cunning” read “expert”
	5	For “ancient” read “old man”
	18	For “bravery” read “beauty”
	24	For “stomacher” read “robe”
VI.	7	For “purged” read “forgiven” with marg. Or, expiated So in xxvii. 9 and so for “purged from” in xxii. 14.
VII.	15	Add marg. to “when he knoweth” Or, till he know
	21	For “nourish” read “keep alive”
	22	Read “that because of the abundance of milk which they”
VIII.	6	In marg.¹³ for “them” read “they”
	21	For “hardly bestead” read “sore distressed”
IX.	5	Omit “even”
	10	For “change” etc. read “put cedars in their place”
	18	For “thick clouds” read “a column”
X.	13	For “am prudent” read “have understanding”
	15	For “shaketh . . . shake” read “wieldeth . . . wield”
	20	For “stay” read “lean” (twice) So in xxx. 12.
	22	Substitute marg.⁶ (“thy people, O Israel”) for the text.
	27	Substitute marg¹² (“by reason of fatness”) for the text.
	30	Omit marg. “Or, as otherwise read” etc.
	31	For “gather themselves to flee” read “flee for safety”
	33	Omit “ones”
XI.	3	Substitute the marg. (“decide”) for the text. So in ver. 4.
	15	For “shake” read “wave”
XIII.	21	For “satyrs” read “wild goats” and omit margin. So in xxxiv. 14.
XIV.	23	Omit the space after this verse.
XVI.	1	Substitute marg. (“to”) for the text.
	3	For “bewray” read “betray”
XVII.	10	Omit marg. “Or, plantings of Adonis”
XIX.	6	For “stink” read “become foul”
XXI.	4	For “panteth” read “fluttereth”
	13	For “travelling companies” read “caravans”
XXIII.	8	Read “Tyre that bestoweth crowns”
	10	For “girdle about thee” read “restraint” and add marg. Heb. girdle
	13	Read “this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness” and put the present text in the marg.
XXIV.	20	To “hut” add marg. Or, hammock
XXVI.	2	For “truth” read “faith”
	8	Read “name, even to thy memorial name” and add marg. “See Ex. iii. 15.”
XXVII.	1	For “dragon” read “monster” So in li. 9; Jer. li. 34.
XXVIII.	7	Read “And even these reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with . . . they stagger with strong drink;” and omit margins¹¹ and¹²
	24	Read “Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually?”
		For “break the clods of” read “harrow”
	25	For “made plain” read “levelled”
XXIX.	16	For “framed” read “formed” (twice)
	21	Add marg. to “in a cause” Or, for a word
	24	For “learn doctrine” read “receive instruction”
XXX.	1	For “cover with a covering” read “make a league” from margin.
		Substitute for marg.¹⁴ “Or, pour out a drink offering”
	2	For “walk” read “set out”
	4	For “his” read “their” (twice)
	5	For “of” read “because of”
	6	For “bunches” read “humps”
	14	Omit “withal”
	17	Marg.⁴ for “mast” read “pole”
	20	Substitute for marg.⁶ “And then will the Lord give you bread in adversity and water in affliction, and thy teachers shall not”
	23	For “rain of thy seed, that . . . withal” read “rain for thy seed wherewith thou shalt sow the ground;”
	25	For “rivers” read “brooks”
XXXI.	1	For “stay” read “rely” So in 1. 10.
	5	For “flying” read “hovering”
XXXII.	5	Substitute the renderings of the marg. “fool . . . noble” for the text.
	6	Substitute the renderings of the marg. “fool . . . folly” for the text.
XXXIII.	4	For “they leap” read “men leap”
	14	For “surprised” read “seized”
		For “shall” read “can” (twice)
	19	For “perceive” read “comprehend”
XXXIV.	8	Read “For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompence for the cause of Zion.”
XXXV.	8	Omit the second alternative rendering from marg.
XXXVII.	33	For “cast” read “cast up”
XXXVIII.	12	For “Mine age” read “My dwelling” and omit marg⁷
	14	For “mourn” read “moan” So in lix. 11.
XL.	19	Omit “graven” So in xliv. 10 read “an image”
		For “melted” read “hath cast”
XLI.	27	Read “I am the first that saith”
XLII.	15	For “make waste” read “lay waste”
	17	For “greatly ashamed” read “utterly put to shame” So in Jer. xx 11.
	25	For “fury” read “fierceness” So in lxvi. 15.
XLIII.	13	For “let” read “hinder” and omit marg.⁴
	23	For “made . . . to serve” read “burdened . . .” So in 24.
XLIV.	7	For “appointed” read “established”
	28	For “and to” read “and of”
XLV.	3	Read in last clause “that it is I Jehovah who call thee”
	24	For “unto me, is” read “, have I”
		In marg.⁶ for “of” read “say of me, is”
XLVL	3	For “the belly” read “their birth”
XLVII.	3	For “accept” read “spare”
		Omit “make truce with” from marg.
	5	For “lady” read “mistress” So for “a lady” in ver. 7.
LI.	4	For “make my judgement to rest” read “establish my judgment”
LII.	2	For “sit thee down” read “sit on thy throne”
	10	For “shall see” read “have seen”
LIII.	1	For “report” read “message”
	7	For “yet he humbled himself and” read “yet when he was afflicted he”
		For “; yea,” read “, so”
	8	Substitute the rendering of marg.¹⁶ carrying forward the interrogation (“cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke was due?”)
	9	For “the rich” read “a rich man” Omit marg.¹⁸
	11	For “by his knowledge” read “by the knowledge of himself” and put the present text in the marg.
		Omit marg.²³ “Or, He shall see” etc.
LIV.	12	For “pleasant” read “precious” So in Joel iii. 5.
LVII.	4	For “draw out” read “put out”
	8	To “where thou sawest it” add marg. Or, thou providest room for it.
	17	For “frowardly” read “backshding”
LX.	6	Read “all they from Sheba shall come”
LXI.	2	For “acceptable year of the LORD” read “year of Jehovah’s favour” and omit marg.
	7	For “For” read “Instead of” (twice)
		For “confusion” read “dishonour”
LXIV.	5	Omit textual remark from marg.³
	11	For “things” read “places”
LXVI.	5	Last clause, read “but it is they that shall be put to shame”
	16	For “plead, . . . , with” read “execute judgment, . . . , upon” So in Joel iii. 2.
	20	For “offering” read “oblation” (twice)

**JEREMIAH.**
I.	6	For “cannot” read “know not how to”
II.	25	For “There is no hope” read “It is in vain”
	34	For “I have not found” etc. read “thou didst not find them breaking in: but it is because of all these things:” Substitute for marg.⁵ “Or, I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.”
	37	For “From him” read “From thence”
III.	21	For “for that” read “because”
IV.	1	For “unto me shalt thou return:” read “if thou wilt return unto me;”
	10	For “soul” read “life”
	13	For “spoiled” read “despoiled;” So in ver. 30; ix. 19; x. 20.
	20	For “spoiled” read “laid waste” (twice) So in xlix. 3; Zech. xi. 2, 3 (twice)
	29	For “The whole city” read “Every city”
V.	6	For “over” read “against”
VI.	14	For “lightly” read “slightly” So in viii. 11.
	27	Let marg.⁶ (“trier”) and the text exchange places.
VII.	24	Add marg. to “went backward” Or, turned their back and not their face
VIII.	14	Add marg. to “gall” Or, poison So in ix. 15; xxiii. 15.
IX.	26	For “polled” read “cut off” So in xxv. 23; xlix. 32.
X.	5	Omit marg⁵ except “Or, pillar”
	8	Marg.² for “it is” read “the stock is”
	24	For “with judgement” read “in measure” Add marg. Heb. judgment So in xxx. 11; xlvi. 28.
XI.	20	For “let me see” read “I shall see”
XIII.	12	For “know” read “certainly know”
	21	Read “when he shall set over thee as head those whom thou hast thyself taught to be friends to thee”
XIV.	3	For “pits” read “cisterns”
	12	For “oblation” read “meal offering” from margin. So read “meal offerings” in xvii. 26; xxxiii. 18; xli. 5.
XVI.	4	For “die of” read “die”
XVII.	11	Substitute marg.⁷ (“sitteth on eggs which she hath not laid”) for the text.
XVIII.	15	For “caused them” read “been made”
	17	Substitute the marg. (“show them the back and not the face”) for the text.
XX.	5	For “which shall spoil them” read “and they shall make them a prey”
	7	For “deceived” read “persuaded” (twice)
	10	For “enticed” read “persuaded”
XXI.	5	For “wrath” read “indignation” So in xxxii. 37.
XXII.	17	For “to shed” read “shedding”
XXIII.	15	For “profaneness” read “ungodliness”
XXVI.	2	For “keep not back” read “diminish not”
	18	For “Micaiah” read “Micah” Add marg. Heb. Micaiah
	19	Omit “at all”
XXVIII.	13	For “shalt make” read “hast made”
XXXI.	20	For “pleasant” read “darling”
		For “are troubled” read “yearn”
XXXIII.	6	For marg. “Or, healing” read “Heb. a bandage”
XXXVIII.	11	For “cast” read “cast off” So in ver. 12.
XLI.	5	For “certain” read “men”
	14	For “cast about and returned” read “turned about and came back”
XLVI.	3	For “Order” read “Prepare”
	8	For “the city” read “cities”
	17	Add margin to “but” etc. Or, destroyed
XLVIII.	3	For “spoiling” read “laying waste”
	28	For “in the sides of the hole’s mouth” read “over the mouth of the abyss”
	39	For “dismaying” read “terror”
XLIX.	5	For “wandereth” read “fleeth”
	10	For “spoiled” read “made a prey”
	39	Add marg. to “bring again” Or, return to So in Ezek. xxix. 14; Hos. vi. 11; Joel iii. 1; Amos ix 14; Zeph. iii. 20.
L.	7	For “offend not” read “are not guilty”
	10	For “spoil . . . spoil” read “prey . . . prey upon”
LI.	5	Add margin to “forsaken” Or, widowed
	14	Add margin to “Surely” Or, Though I have filled
		Add margin to “and” Or, yet
	24	For “delicates” read “delicacies”
	55	For “spoileth Babylon” read “layeth Babylon waste”
LII.	23	Marg.³ for “four” read “four”

**LAMENTATIONS.**
I.	12	For “done unto” read “brought upon”
II	19	For “top” read “head” So in iv. 1; Nah iii 10.

**EZEKIEL.**
I.	4	For “colour” read “look” So in verses 7, 16, 22, 27; viii. 2; x. 9.
		For “amber” read “glowing metal” So in 27, viii. 2. Substitute “Or, amber” for marg.⁴
	18	For “rings” read “rims” (twice)
V.	13	For “satisfy my fury” read “cause my wrath to rest” and omit the marg. So in xvi. 42; xxi. 17; xxiv. 13.
VI.	9	For “whorish” read “lewd”
VII.	26	For “ancients” read “elders”
IX.	6	For “ancient” read “old”
X.	21	Omit “apiece”
XIII.	5	For “made up the fence” read “built up the wall” So alter “make up the fence” in xxii. 30.
	6	For “and the LORD” read “but Jehovah”
	10	Add margin to “untempered mortar” Or, whitewash So in xxii. 28.
XIV.	15	For “noisome” read “evil”
XVI.	7	For “the bud of” read “that which groweth in”
	43	For “fretted” read “raged against”
XVII.	9	For “even without” etc. read “and not by a strong arm or much people can it be raised from the roots thereof”
XX.	3	For “Are ye come” etc read “Is it to enquire of me that ye are come?”
XXIII.	3	For “bruised” read “handled” So in ver. 8, and “handling” in ver. 21.
		For “teats” read “bosom” So in verses 8, 21.
XXIV.	13	For “purged” read “cleansed” (3 times)
XXVII.	9	For “ancients” read “old men”
		For “occupy” read “deal in”
	27	For “occupiers of” read “dealers in”
XXVIII.	3	For “they can hide” read “is hidden”
XXIX.	5	For “leave thee thrown” read “cast thee forth”
	18	For “peeled” read “worn”
XXX.	3	For “near, a day” etc. read “near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time” etc.
XXXVIII	22	Read “and with pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him”
XLII.	12	For “in the head” read “at the head”
XLIII.	14	Substitute marg.⁶ (“ledge”) for the text. So in ver. 20 and xlv. 19.
XLV.	15	Put marg.³ (“well watered”) in the text.

**DANIEL.**
IX.	25, 26	Substitute for marg. to “the anointed one” Heb. Messiah
	25	Read “seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: it shall be” etc. from marg.¹⁸, and put text in margin.
	26	Substitute marg.¹⁵ (“the end thereof”) for the text.
	27	Substitute marg.¹⁶ (“in the midst of”) and marg.¹⁹ (“desolate”) for the text.

**HOSEA.**
VIII.	11	For “to sin” read “for sinning” (twice)
	12	Substitute marg.⁷ (“I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law, but they” etc.) for the text.

**OBADIAH.**
	20	For “captivity” read “captives” (twice)

**MICAH.**
I.	4	For “molten” read “melted”
	16	For “poll thee” read “cut off thy hair”
II.	11	Transpose text and marg.¹²
IV.	6	For “halteth” read “is lame” So in Zeph. iii. 19.
	7	For “halted” read “was lame”
	13	For “thou shalt” read “I shall” and omit marg.

**NAHUM.**
I.	10	Read “For entangled like thorns and drunken as with their drink they are consumed”
II.	1	For “munition” read “fortress”
	4	For “justle one against another” read “rush to and fro”
	7	Let marg.¹ (“And it is decreed; she is” etc.) and the text exchange places.
		For “tabering” read “beating”
	9	For “pleasant” read “goodly”
III.	2	For “jumping” read “bounding”
	19	For “bruit” read “report”

**ZECHARIAH.**
II.	8	For “spoiled you” read “made you a spoil”
III.	5	For “fair” read “clean” (twice)
IV.	7	For “head” read “top”
	14	For “sons of oil” read “anointed ones”
V.	3	For “purged out” read “cut off” (twice)
XIV.	10	For “Arabah” read “plain”
	21	Omit marg. “Or, trafficker”

**MALACHI.**
II.	3	For “sacrifices” read “solemn feasts” and omit margin.
III.	3	For “purge” read “refine”
	15	For “are delivered” read “escape”

oxford: printed by horace hart, at the university press.

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