Textus Receptus Bibles
Julia E. Smith Translation 1876
| 17:1 | And he said to the disciples, It is impossible there come not causes of offence: and woe, through whom they come! |
| 17:2 | It is profitable to him if the millstone of an ass were placed about his neck, and he cast into the sea, rather than he should offend one of these little ones. |
| 17:3 | Attend to yourselves: and if thy brother sin against thee, censure him; and if he should repent, let him go. |
| 17:4 | And if seven times in a day he sin against thee, and seven times in a day turn back to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt let him go. |
| 17:5 | And the sent said to the Lord, Add faith to us. |
| 17:6 | And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a kernel of mustard, said ye to this mulberry-tree, Be thou rooted up, and planted in the sea; and it had listened to you. |
| 17:7 | And which of you having a servant ploughing or feeding, who will say to him having come out of the field, Quickly having come, recline? |
| 17:8 | But will he not say to him, Prepare what I shall sup, and, being girded, serve me, till I eat and drink; and after these, thou mayest eat and drink? |
| 17:9 | He has no favor to that servant, for he did the things appointed. I think not. |
| 17:10 | So also ye, when ye do all appointed you, say, That we are useless servants: for what we ought to do, we have done. |
| 17:11 | And it was in his going to Jerusalem, and he came through the land of Samaria and Galilee. |
| 17:12 | And he coming to a certain town, ten leprous men met him, who stood far off: |
| 17:13 | And they lifted up the voice, saying, Jesus, faster, pity us. |
| 17:14 | And having seen, he said to them, Having gone, show yourselves to the priests. And it was in their retiring they were cleansed. |
| 17:15 | And one of them, having seen that he was healed, turned back, with a great voice honouring God. |
| 17:16 | And he fell upon the face at his feet, thanking him: and he was a Samaritan. |
| 17:17 | And Jesus having answered said, Were not ten cleansed? and where the nine? |
| 17:18 | They were not found returning to give glory to God, except this of another race. |
| 17:19 | And he said to him, Having risen, go: thy faith has saved thee. |
| 17:20 | And having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God comes, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God comes not with observation: |
| 17:21 | Neither shall they say, Behold here or, behold there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. |
| 17:22 | And he said to the disciples, The days come when ye shall eagerly desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see. |
| 17:23 | And they shall say to you, Behold here, or; behold there: go not away, nor pursue. |
| 17:24 | For as lightning, flashing out from that under heaven, shines to that under heaven; so also shall be the Son of man in his day. |
| 17:25 | And first must he suffer many things, and be disapproved of by this generation. |
| 17:26 | And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man. |
| 17:27 | They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, till the day which Noe came into the ark, and the overflow came, and destroyed all. |
| 17:28 | And likewise as it was in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; |
| 17:29 | And the day which Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed all. |
| 17:30 | According to these shall be the day in which the Son of man is revealed. |
| 17:31 | In that day, whoever shall be upon the house, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he in the fields, likewise let him not turn back behind. |
| 17:32 | Remember Lot's wife. |
| 17:33 | Whoever should seek to save his life shall lose it; and whoever shall lose it, shall preserve it alive. |
| 17:34 | I say to you, that night shall be two upon one bed; one shall be taken, and the other let go. |
| 17:35 | Two females shall be grinding together; one shall be taken, and the other let go. |
| 17:36 | is wanting (Missing) in most of the Greek copies. Verse |
| 17:37 | And having answered, they say to him, Where, Lord And he said to them, Where the body, there shall the eagles be gathered together. |
Julia E. Smith Translation 1876
The Julia Evelina Smith Parker Translation is considered the first complete translation of the Bible into English by a woman. The Bible was titled The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues, and was published in 1876.
Julia Smith, of Glastonbury, Connecticut had a working knowledge of Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Her father had been a Congregationalist minister before he became a lawyer. Having read the Bible in its original languages, she set about creating her own translation, which she completed in 1855, after a number of drafts. The work is a strictly literal rendering, always translating a Greek or Hebrew word with the same word wherever possible. Smith accomplished this work on her own in the span of eight years (1847 to 1855). She had sought out no help in the venture, even writing, "I do not see that anybody can know more about it than I do." Smith's insistence on complete literalness, plus an effort to translate each original word with the same English word, combined with an odd notion of Hebrew tenses (often translating the Hebrew imperfect tense with the English future) results in a translation that is mechanical and often nonsensical. However, such a translation if overly literal might be valuable to consult in checking the meaning of some individual verse. One notable feature of this translation was the prominent use of the Divine Name, Jehovah, throughout the Old Testament of this Bible version.
In 1876, at 84 years of age some 21 years after completing her work, she finally sought publication. The publication costs ($4,000) were personally funded by Julia and her sister Abby Smith. The 1,000 copies printed were offered for $2.50 each, but her household auction in 1884 sold about 50 remaining copies.
The translation fell into obscurity as it was for the most part too literal and lacked any flow. For example, Jer. 22:23 was given as follows: "Thou dwelling in Lebanon, building as nest in the cedars, how being compassionated in pangs coming to thee the pain as in her bringing forth." However, the translation was the only Contemporary English translation out of the original languages available to English readers until the publication of The British Revised Version in 1881-1894.(The New testament was published in 1881, the Old in 1884, and the Apocrypha in 1894.) This makes it an invaluable Bible for its period.