The companion bible

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It may prove interesting to explore 'The Companion Bible.' I would like this thread to begin as a database which lists the verses related to the 134 places that the Sopherim have changed YHVH to Adonai according to the Massorah. The Companion Bible indicates where these are. After all 134 places are collected, then this thread can be opened up to discussion about the Companion Bible and it's notes and information in the appendix.

If any would like to help post the scriptures in the order that they appear in the list in the second post, please feel free, but take them from the Companion Bible only or the American King James Version; or at least have one of those versions included if other versions are added to compare. I mentioned the American King James Version because the link to the Companion Bible brings up a site that does not seem to allow copying and pasting here but the link to the AKJV does allow the AKJV scripture to be copied. The AKJV is very similar to the Companion Bible and seems to be corrected like the Companion Bible is, in regards to correcting the word LORD where it was changed to Lord.

This is not to be a discussion thread until all 134 references are posted. If anyone begins to discuss this ahead of time, the post may be deleted. Thanks for respecting this!

Here is a link to the Companion Bible:
http://www.levendwater.org/compani….dex.htm

Here is a link to a list of parallel Bibles including the AKJV:
http://biblehub.com/genesis/1-1.htm

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Readers of the Scriptures can easily pick out the 6,823 times the name YHVH is used (as opposed to the Hebrew word Adonai) merely by noticing whether it is all upper case (LORD) or mixed case (Lord). However, there are 134 places where the Sopherim actually substituted the word Adonai when the original scriptures rendered it YHVH. These changes were noted in the Massorah so that reconstruction of the original is possible. Bullinger writes in the Companion Bible; “Out of extreme (but mistaken) reverence for the Ineffable Name ‘Jehovah’, the ancient custodians of the Sacred Text substituted in many places ‘Adonai.’” (Appendix 32, p. 31).

Following is a list of where these 134 emendations occur. Most English translations (including the King James Version) will render these instances ‘Lord’ rather than ‘LORD.’ Some newer translations may have corrected some or all of them.

Genesis 18:3, 27, 30, 32; 19:18; 20:4.
Exodus 4:10, 13; 5:22; 15:17; 34:9, 9.
Numbers 14:17.
Joshua 7:8.
Judges 6:15; 13:8.
I Kings 3:10, 15; 22:6.
II Kings 7:6; 19:23.
Isaiah 3:17,18; 4:4; 6:1,8,11; 7:14,20; 8:7; 9:8,17; 10:12; 11:11;
21:6,8,16; 28:2; 29:13; 30:20; 37:24; 38;14,16; 49;14.
Ezekiel 18:25, 29; 21:13; 33:17, 29.
Amos 5:16; 7:7, 8; 9:1.
Micah 1:2.
Zechariah 9:4.
Malachi 1:12, 14.
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Psalm 2:4; 16:2; 22:19,30;30:8;35:3*,17,22; 37:13; 38:9,15,22; 39:7;
40:17; 44:23 ; 51:15; 54:4; 55:9; 57:9; 59:11; 62:12; 66:18;
68:11,17,19,22,26,32; 73:20; 77:2,7; 78:65; 79:12; 86:3,4,5,8, 9,12,15;
89:49,50; 90:1,17; 110:5; 130:2,3,6.

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Genesis 18:3, 27, 30, 32:
These are from the American King James Version (AKJV)
Gen 18:3
And said, My LORD, if now I have found favor in your sight, pass not away, I pray you, from your servant:

Gen 18:27
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken on me to speak to the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:

Gen 18:30
And he said to him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

Gen 18:32
And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.

The AKJV is very similar to the Companion Bible and both corrected the text according to what was found in the Massorah. The LORD in all caps and bolded is YHVH in the original according to what has been noted in the Massorah. The link to the Companion Bible in the first post brings up a pdf that does not allow for copying and pasting so the AKJV is used instead since it makes the same correction of 'Lord' to 'LORD.'

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Gen 19:18
American King James Version
And Lot said to them, Oh, not so, my LORD:

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Gen 20:4
American King James Version
But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, will you slay also a righteous nation?

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Exodus 4:10, 13

Exodus 4:10
American King James Version
And Moses said to the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since you have spoken to your servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

Exodus 4:13
American King James Version
And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray you, by the hand of him whom you will send.

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Exodus 5:22
American King James Version
And Moses returned to the LORD, and said, LORD, why have you so evil entreated this people? why is it that you have sent me?

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Exodus 15:17
American King James Version
You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which you have made for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which your hands have established.

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Exodus 34:9,9
American King James Version
And he said, If now I have found grace in your sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray you, go among us; for it is a stiff necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.

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Numbers 14:17
American King James Version
And now, I beseech you, let the power of my LORD be great, according as you have spoken, saying,

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Joshua 7:8
American King James Version
O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies!

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Judges 6:15
The Companion Bible
And he said unto Him, “Oh my LORD, with which shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.”

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Judges 13:8
The Companion Bible
Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said, “O my LORD, let the Man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.”

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I Kings 3:10, 15

I Kings 3:10
American King James Version
And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing.

I Kings 3:15
American King James Version
And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

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I Kings 22:6
American King James Version
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

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II Kings 7:6
American King James Version
For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, See, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come on us.

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II Kings 19:23
American King James Version
By your messengers you have reproached the LORD, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.

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Isaiah 3:17
American King James Version
Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.

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Isaiah 4:4
The Companion Bible
When the LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the middle thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

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