Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
| 23:1 | The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. |
| 23:2 | He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. |
| 23:3 | He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. |
| 23:4 | Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. |
| 23:5 | Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. |
| 23:6 | Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. |
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
By the mid-18th century the wide variation in the various modernized printed texts of the Authorized Version, combined with the notorious accumulation of misprints, had reached the proportion of a scandal, and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge both sought to produce an updated standard text. First of the two was the Cambridge edition of 1760, the culmination of twenty-years work by Francis Sawyer Parris, who died in May of that year. This 1760 edition was reprinted without change in 1762 and in John Baskerville's fine folio edition of 1763. This was effectively superseded by the 1769 Oxford edition, edited by Benjamin Blayney.