Apparently Tischendorff's 1841 Greek NT was the first printed edition to omit this clause. (2 Samuel 12:26) And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences. Some English translations have minor versification differences compared with the KJV. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Indeed, the words of the Holy Ghost are very appropriate here - The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Psalm 12:6. Arias Montanus, in his Antwerp Bible of 1571, broke up the Hebrew text itself into chapters and introduced the Hebrew numerals into the body of the text itself (Ginsburg)..". Learn more about Stack Overflow the company, and our products. I did mention more in my question about how Stephen Langton used the Vulgate and would've added the chapters to the Vulgate.. Numbers 6:24-26 grace peace light. Reasons: The earliest resources including p47, , A,C, several minuscules, several Italic mss, the Vulgate, the Armenian and Ethiopic versions, and quotation in some early Church Fathers support "he stood" (or "it stood"). Biblical Hermeneutics Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for professors, theologians, and those interested in exegetical analysis of biblical texts. This, indeed, is one reason why the vast bulk of biblical scholars reject the KJV as the best translation available today and why they reject its underlying Greek text as being identical with the original: errors in the transmissional process have always taken place, and a great number of them are self-evident in the KJV tradition. But Erasmus added the article for each member of the Trinity, creating yet three more variants without any Greek MS support. This verse is lacking altogether in ,B,D,L,Z,, 1, Ethiopic, Armenian, several Italic, and Syrian and Coptic mss, and the writings of several early Church Fathers. For example, Benjamin G. Wilkinson, in his 1930 book, Our Authorized Bible Vindicated, says "The Authorized Version pictures to us the congregation, composed of Jews and Gentiles. Brooke Foss Westcott & Fenton John Anthony Hort, Edward F. Hills (19121981), "The King James Version Defended: A Christian View of the New Testament Manuscripts" (1956).