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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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