Somebody did a detailed analysis and comparison of one of the best-known passages in Isaiah, chapter 53. As it turns out, there are 166 words in it--- something like 500-1000 letters in this chapter. The researchers found that there are only 17 letters that were different---and 14 of those 17 letters were simply differences in style and spelling. For instance, the word honor. The word honor used to be commonly spelled "honour," but now we regularly spell it without the "u," "honor." So that leaves only three letters that are truly different after 1,000 years of copying process---and it so happens those comprise the word for light, and they don't affect the sense of the text at all.

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