Online catholic bible click here for complete book of judith. Judith chapter 15 kjv king james version 1 and when they that were in the tents heard, they were astonished at the thing that was done 2 and fear and trembling fell upon them, so that there was no man that durst abide in the sight of his neighbour, but rushing out all together, they fled into every way of the plain, and of the hill country 3 they also that had camped in the mountains. Historically, the books of our presentday bible, as found in the kjv and nasb, etc. There are four greek recensions of judith septuagint codices vaticanus, sinaiticus, alexandrinus, and basilianovaticanus, four ancient translations old latin, syriac, sahidic, and ethiopic, and some late hebrew versions, apparently translated from the vulgate. The king james version bible kjv was authorized by king james i and is sometimes referred to as the authorized version.
Chapter 5 page 796 judith is the story of a beautiful jewish widow who. Chapter 5 the book of judith world english bible web sarata. Part i bible study catholic bible study scripture study. Old testament does, with the addition of the books of tobit, judith, wisdom. The books of ruth, esther, judith and susannah are the only ones in the bible including the apocrypha called by the names of women, these women being the principal characters in each case. The book of judith chapter 1 from the original 1611 kjv king james bible. However, the majority of the book of revelation seems to have been translated from the latin vulgate. The book of judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the septuagint and the catholic and eastern orthodox christian old testament of the bible, but. It was translated by the church of england and was first published in 1611. Judith is not a book accepted by the first holy fathers, so its not included in the holy bible. What books are missing in the king james bible compared to the. The simple conclusion from these and other details is that the work is historical fiction, written to exalt god as israels deliverer from foreign might, not by an army.
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