Revelation 7:5-8
 
Revelation 7:5-8
Rev 7:5 (KJV)
Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
Rev 7:6 (KJV)
Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.
Rev 7:7 (KJV)
Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
Rev 7:8 (KJV)
Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
 
The same word is omitted completely in some of the modern versions. That word is “sealed” which is used twelve times in this listing. It is used once before the “twelve thousand” in all four verses, three times in each verse. I am going to list the versions and next to the name of the version, I will list which ones are included with their corresponding tribe and which ones are missing.
 
1611 KJV - All present
1587 Geneva Bible - All present
1526 Tyndale Bible - All present
 
Counterfeit Versions
1881 RV - Judah and Benjamin - The other ten are omitted
1901 ASV - Judah and Benjamin - The other ten are omitted
Amplified - Judah - The other eleven are omitted
CEB - Judah and Benjamin - The other ten are omitted
CEV - All omitted
CSB - Judah and Benjamin - All others are omitted
ERV - All omitted
ESV - Judah and Benjamin - The other ten are omitted
GNB - All omitted
HCSB - Judah and Benjamin - The other ten are omitted
JB Phillips - Judah - The other eleven are omitted
(THE MESSAGE) - Judah and Benjamin - The other ten are omitted
(NASV) - Judah and Benjamin - The other ten are omitted
(NCV) - Judah and Benjamin - The other ten are omitted
(NIV) - Judah - The other eleven are omitted
(NKJV) All present but attacked in the footnotes - (Footnote) In NU-Text and M-Text were sealed is stated only in verses 5a and 8c; the
             words are understood in the remainder of the passage.
(NLV) - All omitted
(NLT) - All omitted
(RSV) - Judah and Benjamin - The other ten are omitted
(NAB-Roman Catholic) - Judah and Benjamin - The other ten are omitted
(NWT - Jehovah’s Witnesses) - Judah and Benjamin - The other ten are omitted
 
Corrupted Manuscripts
These verses are corrupted in the following manuscripts:
 
Verse 5 - Omits sealed
Aleph 01 - Sinaiticus - Nineteenth Century Counterfeit
A 02 - Alexandrinus - Fifth century
C 04 - Ephraemi Rescriptus - Fifth century
P 025 - Ninth century
 
Verse 6 - Omits sealed
Aleph 01 - Sinaiticus - Nineteenth Century Counterfeit
A 02 - Alexandrinus - Fifth century
C 04 - Ephraemi Rescriptus - Fifth century
P 025 - Ninth century
 
Verse 7 - Omits sealed
Aleph 01 - Sinaiticus - Nineteenth Century Counterfeit
A 02 - Alexandrinus - Fifth century
C 04 - Ephraemi Rescriptus - Fifth century
P 025 - Ninth century
 
Verse 8 - Omits Sealed
Aleph 01 - Sinaiticus - Nineteenth Century Counterfeit
A 02 - Alexandrinus - Fifth century
C 04 - Ephraemi Rescriptus - Fifth century
P 025 - Ninth century
 
Manuscripts which agree with the Textus Receptus for these verses
Contains “sealed” for all four verses
Stephanus - 1550
 
Published Critical Greek Texts with Corruptions
Omits “sealed” in all four verses
Greisbach, Johann - 1805
Lachmann, Karl - 1842
Tischendorf, Constantine - 1869
Tregelles, Samuel - 1857
Alford, Henry - 1849 revised in 1871
Wordsworth, Christopher - 1856 revised in 1870
Westcott and Hort - 1881
Weiss, Bernhard - 1894
Nestle - 1927 as revised in seventeenth edition in 1941
Nestle-Aland - 1979 - Twenty Sixth Edition
Nestle-Aland - 1993 - Twenty Seventh Edition
United Bible Societies - 1983 - Fourth Edition
Von Soden, Freiherr - 1902
Hodges and Farstad - Majority Text 1982 as corrected in 1985

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