I compared a file that I did dowonload for E-sword with the watchtowerlibrary (2005) NW translation by using "BIBLESPEAK"
It can create a report with differences between some translations.
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Ezra 4:10 - Line 104 Line1 len 166 Line2 len 181 Line1 Words 30 Line2 Words 32
and the rest of the nations whom the great and honorable As´e·nap·par took into exile and settled in the cities of Sa·mar´i·a and the rest beyond the River -- and now
and the rest of the nations whom the great and honorable Ase·nap·par took into exile and settled in the cities of Sa·mari·a and the rest beyond the River { OMITTED TEXT} and now
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Nehemiah 12:17 - Line 345 Line1 len 62 Line2 len 76 Line1 Words 8 Line2 Words 10
for A·bi´jah Zich´ri for Mi·ni´a·min -- for Mo·a·di´ah Pil´tai
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Psalm 9:10 - Line 92 Line1 len 110 Line2 len 46 Line1 Words 21 Line2 Words 9
And those knowing your name will trust in you For you will certainly not leave those looking for you O Jehovah
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Why O Jehovah do you keep standing afar off? Why do you keep yourself hid in times of distress?
{ Why} do you keep yourself hid in times of distress?
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GIVE her of the fruitage of her hands and let her works praise her even in the gates
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When he started to settle them there was brought in a man who owed him ten thousand talents =60000000 de·nar´i·i
When he started to settle them there was brought in a man who owed him ten thousand talents { =60000000
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And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Har–Ma·ged´on
And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Har-Ma·gedon
Please notice that the watchtower society has GOOD reasons to leave some doubteble verses/text.... other translations somteimes also do like that....
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"MISSING" VERSES
With the above information as a background, we are in a better position to examine some of the verses that at first might have appeared to be missing from recent Bible translations.
We mentioned earlier that a scribe might add from elsewhere a sentence or verse to an account that he was copying. You can readily see that in Mark 9:43-48. In many newer versions verses 44 and 46 are omitted, sometimes with a dash being added to indicate the omission, as in the NewWorldTranslation. The text of those two verses reads, "where their maggot does not die and the fire is not put out," exactly the same as in verse 48. Whereas some Greek manuscripts contain verses 44 and 46, a number of older, authoritative manuscripts do not. The evidence suggests that a scribe or scribes merely repeated verse 48, perhaps even by accident. So omitting verses 44 and 46 from a modern Bible in no way involves leaving out part of God’s Word, for the same sentence is there in verse 48 of the same account. But what is accomplished by omitting the two doubtful verses? The account is refined and set forth as Mark was inspired to write it.
In other instances the "missing verses" evidently have come from other Bible books. Some editions of the Bible help the reader to see this, for they print in a footnote the text of the omitted verse, such as was done in certain large-print editions of the NewWorldTranslation. If you do not have this aid, you can compare your modern Bible with the KingJamesVersion or a similar older translation. By such a comparison you can confirm for yourself that what is omitted may be just a verse repeated from another place or book. For example, note Romans 16:24 and compare it with verse 20 and concluding passages in almost any of the books written by the apostle Paul. You will see that, at Romans 16:24, some copyist evidently added a closing expression such as Paul included in almost all of his books.
Perhaps the most controversial passage that has been taken out of recent translations that are faithful to ancient manuscript evidence is part of 1 John 5:7. In the past, this text was often appealed to in support of the unscriptural Trinity doctrine. Regarding the spurious passage, the Catholic JerusalemBible says:
"The words in italics [inheaven:theFathertheWordandtheSpirit,andthesethreeareone;andtherearethreewitnessesonearth:] (not in any of the early Greek MSS, or any of the early translations, or in the best MSS of the Vulg[ate] itself) are probably a gloss that has crept into the text."
Because this verse comes from a period that is so much later than the time of the Bible writing and its nature is so clearly spurious, many modern translations do not even treat it as they do other omitted verses.
Finally, we can mention a couple of longer portions of the Bible where the manuscript evidence seem to scholars to be inconclusive. The ending of the book of Mark, from verse 9 on, is one of these. Another is John 7:53–8:11, about the woman caught in adultery who came to Jesus. This account first appeared in some Old Latin versions, and, in later Greek manuscripts, it is in three other locations in the Gospels. In many translations these two portions are included but separated from the main text, such as by being put in brackets or being set in smaller type.
Questions
FromReaders Did sick and crippled individuals actually get healed in the disturbed waters of Bethzatha, as John5:2-7suggests? And if so,by what power did those miracles occur? Actually, the account at John 5:2-9 does not establish whether a number of miraculous healings occurred at a pool in ancient Jerusalem. The only miracle that we can be sure took place there was the one performed by Jesus Christ when he healed a man who for 38 years had been sick. We can accept this miracle, for the report of it is in the inspired Scriptures. (2 Timothy 3:16) But many in Jerusalem back then believed that other miracles had occurred at that spot, even as many today believe that miraculous cures occur at shrines.
Note what the Bible does say, and what it really does not say: "Now in Jerusalem at the sheepgate there is a pool designated in Hebrew Bethzatha, with five colonnades. In these a multitude of the sick, blind, lame and those with withered members, was lying down. ——— But a certain man was there who had been in his sickness for thirty-eight years. Seeing this man lying down, and being aware that he had already been sick a long time, Jesus said to him: ‘Do you want to become sound in health?’ The sick man answered him: ‘Sir, I do not have a man to put me into the pool when the water is disturbed; but while I am coming another steps down ahead of me.’ Jesus said to him: ‘Get up, pick up your cot and walk.’ With that the man immediately became sound in health, and he picked up his cot and began to walk."—John 5:2-9.
The pool referred to was near the "sheepgate," which evidently was in northeastern Jerusalem close to the temple mount. (Nehemiah 3:1; 12:39) Recent excavations have uncovered evidence of two ancient pools, with fragments of columns and bases that indicate that a building having colonnades existed there in Herodian times, as John 5:2 says. But what did people back then think might occur here?
Observe the dash in the above quotation of John 5:2-9. Some Bibles include an extra passage that is numbered John 5:4. That addition says something like: "For an angel of the Lord would come down into the pool from season to season and disturb the water; the first one then to step in after the disturbance of the water would become sound in health from whatever disease it was by which he was afflicted."
However, a number of modern Bibles, including the NewWorldTranslationoftheHolyScriptures, omit this passage. Why? Because in all probability it was not in John’s Gospel. A footnote in TheJerusalemBible observes that the "best witnesses" omit this passage. The "best witnesses" meant are ancient Greek manuscripts, such as the Codex Sinaiticus and the Vatican 1209 (both of the 4th century C.E.), and early versions in Syriac and Latin. After mentioning ‘the absence of verse 4 from the best manuscript texts,’ TheExpositor’sBibleCommentary adds: "It is generally regarded as a gloss that was introduced to explain the intermittent agitation of the water, which the populace considered to be a potential source of healing."
So the Bible does not really say that an angel from God performed miracles at the pool of Bethzatha. Well, did miraculous healings occur when the water was disturbed? No one today can say for sure. Maybe a tradition somehow developed that ill or crippled persons had been healed there. Once stories of supposed healings spread, desperate persons hoping to be cured may have begun congregating there. We know that this has occurred at various locations in our time, even when there is no documented proof of divine healings.
We should not, though, be skeptical about the healing that the Son of God performed at the pool of Bethzatha. Why, without even entering the water, the man was instantly cured by the Great Physician. His documented ability to do this should give us reason to look forward to the healings that he will perform during the approaching Millennium. He will heal and help faithful humans back to perfection.—Revelation 21:4, 5; 22:1, 2.
