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The Ultimate in NIV Comparison Stats
We’re either over-obsessed with numbers or there are a lot of frustrated sports statisticians out there who got work in ministry.
Then again, maybe the Committee on Bible Translation simply compiled all this to save everyone else a lot of time.
Biggest changes in verses*:
- Galatians 32.21% (almost a third of all verses)
- III John 28.57%
- Ezra 26.79%
- Micah 25.71%
- Jonah 22.92 %
Least changes in verses*:
- Song of Solomon 1.71% (maybe they just didn’t want to go there)
- Esther 2.4%
- Numbers 3.11%
- Philemon 4.00% (of course it was small to begin with!)
- I Samuel 4.20%
*That’s verses as opposed to “words and punctuation” for which changes were not all that dramatic:
Greatest change in words and punctuation:
- Proverbs 11.46%
- Job 8.27%
- III John 8.07% (appears high in both lists…)
Least changes in words and punctuation:
- Haggai 3.59% (I enjoyed his Can America Survive?)
- Obadiah 3.62% (there’s a book called that? — just kidding!)
- Ezra 3.66%
You can get all this at this information at this link. Has there ever been a translation so carefully reviewed and dissected prior to print publication?
Ah yes, the Nowhere Near Infallible Version … wonder if the people who get hung up on infallibility issues etc will wake up to reality at last? God never gave us an infallible book: he offers us grace and invites our trust…