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Scripture Topic Guide

Bible Verses About The Hexapla And Biblical Texts

Early Christian writers do not talk about the Hexapla often by name in this set, but they do give a clear answer about biblical texts: they treated the Scriptures as needing careful comparison, translation, and defense against later changes. Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Tertullian, and others all speak about Hebrew originals, Greek translations, and the need to test readings carefully.

Origen is the strongest witness here for comparing Hebrew and Greek copies, while Irenaeus and Justin argue that the Jewish Scriptures were translated into Greek before Christ. The evidence is broad on early concern for textual accuracy and translation history, but thin on direct Hexapla references, so the topic is best handled as a study of early Christian views of biblical text comparison rather than of the Hexapla itself.

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The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

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But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.

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And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

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He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

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And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

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And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.

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These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

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And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.

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Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.

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Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

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And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

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And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.

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So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

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These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

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And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

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Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.

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For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

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And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

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And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.

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Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

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Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

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Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

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And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:

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And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

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As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

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And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:

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The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

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And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.

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Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.

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But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

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And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

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And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.

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