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THE HOLY BIBLE (Douay-Rheims Translation)
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The original version of this text is the Project Gutenberg Douay-Rheims Challoner Version of the Bible. Since that version had some obvious typographical errors, I downloaded a second copy from Dan Connolly's Douay-Rheims Home Page and did a comparison with that version (noting its own OCR problems), and making corrections as seemed appropriate. This was done without a local hard-copy of the Bible for double checking, so this should not be considered a proofread version. It may be better than some other sources due to the nature of the corrective work. The reader will have to be the judge. As with all of our site Bibles and References, if you find an error, please let us know.

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We provide several Bibles on our site, and allow the users to select the Bible to use for monthly Bible reading, full year Bible reading, links from references, and parallel Bible displays. In order for these features to work properly, all versions of the Bible on our site must have reasonably consistent verse numbering. Since the majority of the Bibles are configured with the KJV or Authorized verse ordering, other Bibles are modified to conform to that standard. This is not done to offend anyone, however we needed some means of providing the consistent tagging across each Bible and this was the chosen method. We hope that the usefulness of linking to expected scriptures will outweigh the inconvenience of not having occasional verses in the expected printed edition location. The verse splits are still not exact between the Vulgate/Douay-Rheims and other versions, however, but at least there should be no broken links. If a verse doesn't appear to match the expected content, try increasing the width of the context display and read a verse above and below. You will probably find what you are looking for.

The following are the modifications we have made to the verse numbering of the Douay-Rheims Challoner Version of the Bible. For the original source, please contact the Project Gutenburg web site.

In addition, the following textual changes were made by comparing our previous Rheims NT and other on-line sources with the Gutenburg Douay-Rheims Bible as noted above. I don't know the original source of the electronic Rheims NT I had and it was certainly not error free. It may be more recent than the Douay-Rheims Challoner edition. I don't have access to an original Challoner edition to tell which is correct. The changes listed below seemed minor and increased the readability of the text. Where a choice had to be made in wording which wasn't obvious - I picked whichever wording was closest to the AV/KJV as that is a more commonly searched Bible - weighing the choice somewhat based on the total number of errors in the book itself. Perhaps this had been done in the entering of corrections into the original Rheims NT we had, and thus the source has diverged twice toward the AV/KJV. If you can verify the correctness or incorrectness of a particular listed change, please let the webservant know. Also let us know of any other errors you find in any part of the text.

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