My copy of "The Book" reads a little different, and I think the difference is significant.
13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: (KJV)
My copy of "The Book" reads a little different, and I think the difference is significant.
I didn’t identify the translation, when I put it down, but it was the New King James version. Now, what you supplied was the King James version. And in both cases, they are translations. And, as such, “translations” are not “God-breathed scripture” as the Bible tells us — but — the original autographs in the original language are the inspired Word of God.
So, what we have here, to “question” is concerning the “translation work” and whether it’s a correct translation or not. And I would advise people to remember that going into “translation work” is a different matter than what one would consider for the “authoritative and inerrant and infallible word of God” in the original languages in the original autographs.
That’s an important distinction to make... when going over points like you just raised... :-)
And here's the text to a statement that Evangelicals made on Biblical Inerrancy... which is relevant here.
The "Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy" was produced at an international Summit Conference of evangelical leaders, held at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Chicago in the fall of 1978. This congress was sponsored by the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy. The Chicago Statement was signed by nearly 300 noted evangelical scholars, including James Boice, Norman L. Geisler, John Gerstner, Carl F. H. Henry, Kenneth Kantzer, Harold Lindsell, John Warwick Montgomery, Roger Nicole, J. I. Packer, Robert Preus, Earl Radmacher, Francis Schaeffer, R. C. Sproul, and John Wenham.
The ICBI disbanded in 1988 after producing three major statements: one on biblical inerrancy in 1978, one on biblical hermeneutics in 1982, and one on biblical application in 1986. The following text, containing the "Preface" by the ICBI draft committee, plus the "Short Statement," "Articles of Affirmation and Denial," and an accompanying "Exposition," was published in toto by Carl F. H. Henry in God, Revelation And Authority, vol. 4 (Waco, Tx.: Word Books, 1979), on pp. 211-219. The nineteen Articles of Affirmation and Denial, with a brief introduction, also appear in A General Introduction to the Bible, by Norman L. Geisler and William E. Nix (Chicago: Moody Press, rev. 1986), at pp. 181-185. An official commentary on these articles was written by R. C. Sproul in Explaining Inerrancy: A Commentary (Oakland, Calif.: ICBI, 1980), and Norman Geisler edited the major addresses from the 1978 conference, in Inerrancy (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1980).
Clarification of some of the language used in this Statement may be found in the 1982 Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics
This was just the "Introduction/Background" for it. The main part of the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy is at the link, supplied above.