THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS: TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES; AND WITH THE FORMER WITH THE MARGINAL READINGS ADOPTED BY AUTHORIZED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES. NEW YORK Thomas Nelson & Sons 37 EAST 18TH STREET 1903 THE THE Commission of Bishops and Presbyters appointed by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America to draw up Marginal Readings for the English Version of the Bible, and empowered by the General Convention of 1901 to print a Bible or Bibles containing the same, hereby certify that this edition of the Bible contains the Marginal Readings adopted by the General Convention, and allowed to be used in churches at the discretion of the minister in reading the Lessons from Holy Scripture in Morning and Evening Prayer; Also that in the Appendix are contained certain other alternative renderings preferred by the Commission, and printed here by the authority of the General Convention, though not authorized for reading in the public services of the Church. The renderings found in the margin are alternatives to the words or sentences marked by the same number and underlined in the text. Renderings which are based on a difference of reading in the original Hebrew, Greek, or Latin texts are distinguished by a corresponding Or, at the foot of the page. Certain explanations of names, and of the more literal rendering from the original of certain words or phrases, similar to those found in the margin of the version of 1611, are placed at the foot of the page. THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED GENESIS there was evening and there was morning, e day. there was there was Coming, a second day. CHAPTER 1. 12 And the earth brought forth 1 The creation of heaven and earth, 3 of the grass, and herb yielding seed after light, & of the firmament, 9 of the earth sepahis kind, and the tree yielding rated from the waters, 11 and made fruitful, fruit, whose seed was in itself, 14 of the sun, moon, and stars, 20 of fish and foul, 24 of beasts and cattle, 26 of man in after his kind: and God saw that the image of God. 29 Also the appointment it was good. of food. IN the beginning God Cr 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good and God divided the light from the darkness. : 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 6 ¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and raing and the morning were the second day. 9¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 3 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day. 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature 6 sea monthat moveth, which the waters sters, brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. |