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American Revised Version

American  

noun

  1. a revision of the Bible, based chiefly on the Revised Version of the Bible, published in the U.S. in 1901.


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A large copy of the Bible was placed upon a British flag at the head of one of the tables where the speaker stood, but he read from the American Revised Version of the Scriptures.

From A Trip Abroad by Don Carlos Janes

The American revisers continued their organization, and, aided by experience, made a new revision throughout, which was published both in England and America as "The American Revised Version," in 1901.

From Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

This the translators of the Revised Version did, for in the English Revised Version we find in brackets the word "thirty," in the American Revised Version "forty."

From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Frederick Carl Eiselen

The American Revised Version has very wisely removed the word Hell altogether on account of the misleading associations connected with it.

From The Gospel of the Hereafter by J. Paterson (John Paterson) Smyth

Unless otherwise indicated the Biblical quotations are from the American Revised Version.

From The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks

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