The KJV is a respected and beloved translation, it should not be considered a "perfect" Bible. See the revisions below:
Revision History[1]
• 1611: KJV is
published for the first time
• 1629 and
1638: major revisions made to KJV
• “Because of
the printing technology available at the time, various misprints, variations in
spelling, and other inconsistencies were common in early editions. Therefore,
subsequent updates were necessary in 1613, 1629, and 1638.”2
• 1762 and
1769: KJV is revised to standardize the text
• “the
revisions made at Cambridge in 1762 and at Oxford in 1769 standardized the
text, ensuring that the King James Version would remain immensely readable for
generations to come.”3
• 1873:
Scrivener’s Cambridge Paragraph Bible is published.
• Revisions
include, “the text revised by a collation of its early and other principal
editions, the use of the italic type made uniform, the marginal references
remodelled, and a critical introduction prefixed.”4
• 1881 and
1894: KJV undergoes revision in England and is published as the English Revised
Version.
• Two
committees were formed to revise the Old and New Testaments of the Authorized
Version to account for recent biblical scholarship and text criticism.
• “The
character of the Revision was determined for us from the outset by the first
rule, ‘to introduce as few alterations as possible, consistently with
faithfulness.’ Our task was revision, not re-translation.”5
• ca. 1900:
The Pure Cambridge Edition is published and proponents claim it “should not be
altered.”6
[1] Jessica
Parks. 2022. “King James Version, 1900.” In Major English Bible Translations.
Faithlife Biblical and Theological Lists. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife.
4 The Cambridge Paragraph Bible
5 Preface to the New Testament (ERV)
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