Does the translation change the map?

The question

The map of meaning uses the Berean Standard Bible. This study asks which chapter similarities persist when the same model processes other English editions.

The comparison includes four other complete English editions: the King James Version, the World English Bible, the Bible in Basic English and Young's Literal Translation. Each chapter is compared with its BSB counterpart, and each edition's ten nearest chapters are compared with the BSB's. See the source notes for edition and reuse information.

Many close chapter parallels persist, but other neighboring matches change. Average same-chapter similarity to the BSB is 0.980 for the World English Bible, 0.963 for the King James Version, 0.959 for the Bible in Basic English and 0.939 for Young's Literal Translation. Every one of the forty closest cross-book pairs on the main map remains within each other's ten nearest chapters in all four editions. These results concern the model's representations, not preservation of a separately drawn map or translation quality.

What was measured

The map of meaning turns each chapter into 256 numbers, the average of the numbers the model gives its overlapping four-verse windows, scaled to unit length. This study does the same for each of the four other editions, with the same model, the same windows and the same averaging, so that every chapter has five readings, one per edition. Nothing is drawn; everything below is measured between the readings themselves, the way the main page's lists of parallels and surprises are, and not on the drawn map.

Three things are measured for every chapter, in each edition against the Berean Standard Bible:

• Agreement. The similarity of the chapter's two readings, the same score the main page uses for pairs of chapters: 1 would mean the two normalized representations have the same direction, not necessarily identical wording or meaning, and the closest pair of different chapters on the main map, 2 Kings 19 and Isaiah 37, scores 0.993. This page calls two readings below 0.95 a lower-similarity result and below 0.90 a much lower-similarity result. These are descriptive thresholds chosen for this study, not validated measures of changes in meaning.
• Neighbors kept. The chapter's ten nearest chapters under each edition, and how many of the ten are the same. A chapter can move a little and keep all its neighbors, or move a little and lose several, if it sits in a crowded part of the map.
• Same nearest chapter. Whether the one chapter nearest to it is the same in both editions.

A control test separates translation differences from rounding. The data files use rounded numbers to reduce their size, and rounding creates a very small amount of change by itself. Comparing the rounded and unrounded Berean Standard Bible gives an average agreement of 0.99995, preserves 9.9 of each chapter's ten nearest neighbors, and keeps the same nearest chapter in 1,168 of 1,189 cases. Every translation differs from the Berean Standard Bible by much more than this rounding effect.

Similarity across editions

The chart begins with the King James Version. Its average agreement with the Berean Standard Bible is 0.963 and its median 0.967; 169 of its 1,189 chapters fall below 0.95, 14 percent, and 14 fall below 0.90. It keeps 7.5 of the average chapter's ten nearest chapters, and 759 chapters, 64 percent, have the same nearest chapter in both editions.

The agreement of every edition, as a table

Edition	Mean	Median	Lowest	Below 0.95	Below 0.90	Nearest ten kept	Overlap	Same nearest chapter
King James Version	0.963	0.967	0.848	169	14	7.5 of ten	0.62	759 of 1,189
World English Bible	0.980	0.984	0.853	40	2	7.9 of ten	0.67	829 of 1,189
Bible in Basic English	0.959	0.963	0.813	257	15	7.2 of ten	0.58	749 of 1,189
Young's Literal Translation	0.939	0.943	0.752	745	67	7.0 of ten	0.56	712 of 1,189
Rounding alone (control)	0.99995	0.99995	0.99988	0	0	9.89 of ten	0.981	1,168 of 1,189

Mean, median and lowest are the agreement of a chapter's two readings, over all 1,189 chapters. Nearest ten kept is how many of a chapter's ten nearest chapters are the same in both editions, on average; overlap is the Jaccard index: shared neighbors divided by all distinct neighbors in the two sets. It is not the fraction of ten retained. For example, eight shared neighbors give eight out of twelve distinct neighbors, an overlap of about two-thirds. The last row is the control: the Berean's rounded readings against its unrounded ones.

The World English Bible agrees most: 0.980 on average, with 40 chapters below 0.95, 3 percent, and 2 below 0.90; it keeps 7.9 of ten neighbors, and 829 chapters, 70 percent, keep their nearest chapter. The Bible in Basic English, written in a deliberately small vocabulary, moves a little more than the King James Version: 0.959 on average, with 257 chapters below 0.95, 22 percent, and 15 below 0.90; 749 chapters, 63 percent, keep their nearest chapter. Young's Literal Translation moves most by far: 0.939 on average, with 745 chapters below 0.95, 63 percent, and 67 below 0.90; 712 chapters, 60 percent, keep their nearest chapter. Two habits of Young's run through its Old Testament, counted verse by verse: it writes Jehovah where the Berean writes the LORD, in 5,492 of the 5,569 Old Testament verses that carry the LORD in the Berean, so that Jehovah stands in 25 percent of Young's Old Testament verses; and it uses forms such as he saith and he buildeth; the study's verb-form matching rule finds examples in 52 percent of them; one habit or the other touches 62 percent. Its Old Testament averages 0.934 against its New Testament's 0.958, where the other editions move both testaments alike: 0.963 and 0.964 in the King James Version. A third difference, the psalm titles that the text of Young's read here folds into a psalm's first verse, is described under Limits.

On average, each edition retains most of the ten nearest chapters, though the individual matches can change. The lowest average of any edition is Young's 0.939, and in every edition the average chapter keeps most of its ten nearest chapters: 7.0 of ten in Young's, 7.2 in the Bible in Basic English, 7.9 in the World English Bible. Two group averages closer than a thousandth, the last place this page shows, are called a tie here. Among the seven sections, the one that moves most is Poetry and Wisdom in the World English Bible, the Bible in Basic English and Young's, and in the King James Version Poetry and Wisdom and Letters are tied. In the Bible in Basic English and Young's, short psalms are among the lower-scoring chapters, and Psalms is the lowest book of the section; in the King James Version and the World English Bible it is not, since Song of Solomon and Ecclesiastes sit below Psalms in the one and Ecclesiastes in the other. The section that moves least is Revelation in the King James Version, Gospels and Acts in the Bible in Basic English and Young's, and in the World English Bible Gospels and Acts and Revelation are tied. The book that moves most is Esther in the King James Version, where the king is Ahasuerus rather than Xerxes, Malachi in the World English Bible and the Bible in Basic English, which both write armies where the Berean writes Hosts, and Zechariah in Young's; the book that moves least is Joel in the King James Version and John in the Bible in Basic English, while in the World English Bible John and 1 John are tied and in Young's John and Ephesians are tied.

Agreement by section, testament and book

Section	Chapters	King James Version	World English Bible	Bible in Basic English	Young's Literal Translation
Law	187	0.963	0.981	0.963	0.937
History	249	0.964	0.980	0.964	0.946
Poetry and Wisdom	243	0.962	0.977	0.950	0.925
Prophets	250	0.965	0.980	0.956	0.927
Gospels and Acts	117	0.965	0.986	0.968	0.963
Letters	121	0.962	0.980	0.957	0.955
Revelation	22	0.970	0.985	0.959	0.956
Old Testament	929	0.963	0.979	0.958	0.934
New Testament	260	0.964	0.983	0.962	0.958

By book

Book	Chapters	King James Version	World English Bible	Bible in Basic English	Young's Literal Translation
Genesis	50	0.966	0.985	0.971	0.948
Exodus	40	0.963	0.982	0.962	0.938
Leviticus	27	0.955	0.976	0.960	0.925
Numbers	36	0.956	0.975	0.954	0.934
Deuteronomy	34	0.971	0.985	0.967	0.935
Joshua	24	0.962	0.980	0.960	0.949
Judges	21	0.965	0.983	0.967	0.944
Ruth	4	0.947	0.973	0.949	0.931
1 Samuel	31	0.970	0.986	0.970	0.949
2 Samuel	24	0.972	0.986	0.973	0.954
1 Kings	22	0.965	0.982	0.968	0.949
2 Kings	25	0.965	0.979	0.972	0.947
1 Chronicles	29	0.965	0.983	0.967	0.950
2 Chronicles	36	0.966	0.981	0.964	0.943
Ezra	10	0.947	0.964	0.948	0.939
Nehemiah	13	0.960	0.976	0.958	0.939
Esther	10	0.936	0.955	0.934	0.923
Job	42	0.960	0.977	0.959	0.934
Psalms	150	0.961	0.975	0.944	0.917
Proverbs	31	0.970	0.987	0.962	0.937
Ecclesiastes	12	0.955	0.973	0.960	0.950
Song of Solomon	8	0.953	0.979	0.956	0.939
Isaiah	66	0.964	0.980	0.954	0.921
Jeremiah	52	0.968	0.981	0.963	0.932
Lamentations	5	0.976	0.985	0.969	0.951
Ezekiel	48	0.967	0.982	0.954	0.930
Daniel	12	0.965	0.980	0.967	0.947
Hosea	14	0.963	0.979	0.952	0.930
Joel	3	0.977	0.987	0.972	0.947
Amos	9	0.959	0.979	0.953	0.923
Obadiah	1	0.965	0.988	0.962	0.918
Jonah	4	0.955	0.976	0.949	0.915
Micah	7	0.966	0.984	0.956	0.922
Nahum	3	0.947	0.968	0.939	0.907
Habakkuk	3	0.959	0.981	0.951	0.935
Zephaniah	3	0.973	0.986	0.963	0.925
Haggai	2	0.970	0.975	0.956	0.924
Zechariah	14	0.957	0.971	0.947	0.903
Malachi	4	0.953	0.951	0.924	0.905
Matthew	28	0.968	0.988	0.969	0.965
Mark	16	0.960	0.979	0.959	0.960
Luke	24	0.965	0.986	0.967	0.962
John	21	0.972	0.990	0.978	0.971
Acts	28	0.959	0.984	0.964	0.958
Romans	16	0.968	0.984	0.961	0.959
1 Corinthians	16	0.958	0.980	0.956	0.961
2 Corinthians	13	0.955	0.973	0.952	0.947
Galatians	6	0.968	0.977	0.967	0.959
Ephesians	6	0.973	0.986	0.965	0.971
Philippians	4	0.967	0.981	0.967	0.966
Colossians	4	0.966	0.982	0.966	0.965
1 Thessalonians	5	0.962	0.976	0.954	0.954
2 Thessalonians	3	0.963	0.981	0.954	0.963
1 Timothy	6	0.951	0.966	0.945	0.936
2 Timothy	4	0.968	0.985	0.955	0.957
Titus	3	0.943	0.971	0.931	0.946
Philemon	1	0.960	0.988	0.970	0.957
Hebrews	13	0.958	0.981	0.957	0.945
James	5	0.956	0.984	0.958	0.947
1 Peter	5	0.962	0.981	0.955	0.953
2 Peter	3	0.960	0.976	0.953	0.953
1 John	5	0.976	0.990	0.964	0.967
2 John	1	0.963	0.983	0.940	0.914
3 John	1	0.951	0.977	0.963	0.929
Jude	1	0.965	0.979	0.960	0.948
Revelation	22	0.970	0.985	0.959	0.956

Every edition against every other

Everything above measures four editions against the Berean Standard Bible, which makes the Berean the yardstick, and a yardstick has a position of its own. So here every edition is measured against every other: the five editions in all ten pairs, by the same three measures, the average agreement of a chapter's two readings, the ten nearest chapters shared, and whether the nearest chapter is the same. The matrix is the first of the three; the other two are behind the disclosure below.

Mean agreement of every edition with every other

Edition	Berean	King James	World English	Basic English	Young's
Berean Standard Bible		0.963	0.980	0.959	0.939
King James Version	0.963		0.978	0.964	0.964
World English Bible	0.980	0.978		0.966	0.950
Bible in Basic English	0.959	0.964	0.966		0.942
Young's Literal Translation	0.939	0.964	0.950	0.942

• below 0.945
• 0.945 to 0.955
• 0.955 to 0.965
• 0.965 to 0.975
• 0.975 and above

Three things hold in the matrix. First, the World English Bible is the edition nearest to the Berean (0.980), to the King James Version (0.978) and to the Bible in Basic English (0.966), and the second nearest to Young's Literal Translation, whose nearest is the King James Version. This is a similarity result, not evidence about translation ancestry or what the model encountered during training. Second, Young's Literal Translation is the farthest edition from the Berean (0.939), from the World English Bible (0.950) and from the Bible in Basic English (0.942), but not from the King James Version: against the King James Version it agrees at 0.964, as closely as the Bible in Basic English does (0.964) and about as closely as the Berean does (0.963), so that the King James Version has no single farthest edition, the three being tied. Young's lowest agreement is with the Berean, the yardstick of the rest of this page, so the rest of this page shows Young's at its farthest. Third, the Bible in Basic English's three highest pairwise averages are relatively close: it agrees with the World English Bible at 0.966, the King James Version at 0.964 and the Berean at 0.959, three figures within a hundredth of each other, where each of those three editions has a partner it agrees with at 0.978 or better.

The neighborhoods say the same with one difference. By the ten nearest chapters shared, the closest pair is the King James Version and the World English Bible, which have an average Jaccard overlap of 0.69 between their ten-neighbor sets and have the same nearest chapter for 867 of the 1,189 chapters, 73 percent, ahead of the Berean and the World English Bible at 0.67; the pair that shares least is the Bible in Basic English and Young's at 0.54.

The rest of this page keeps the Berean as its reference all the same, because the Berean is the edition the map is drawn from: the question the page asks is whether the map would change, and the map's dots are the Berean's readings. The matrix is here so that the choice can be seen for what it is, a yardstick among five, and so that what depends on it, which edition sits farthest, is not mistaken for a fact about the editions.

Each edition's nearest and farthest

Nearest and farthest by average agreement. Two agreements closer than a thousandth are a tie, as elsewhere on this page, and every edition tied for the place is named.

The ten nearest chapters shared, and the same nearest chapter, for every pair

Ten nearest chapters shared, as the overlap of the two sets

Edition	Berean	King James	World English	Basic English	Young's
Berean Standard Bible		0.62	0.67	0.58	0.56
King James Version	0.62		0.69	0.60	0.61
World English Bible	0.67	0.69		0.61	0.59
Bible in Basic English	0.58	0.60	0.61		0.54
Young's Literal Translation	0.56	0.61	0.59	0.54

Chapters whose nearest chapter is the same in both editions, of 1,189

Edition	Berean	King James	World English	Basic English	Young's
Berean Standard Bible		759 of 1,189	829 of 1,189	749 of 1,189	712 of 1,189
King James Version	759 of 1,189		867 of 1,189	766 of 1,189	778 of 1,189
World English Bible	829 of 1,189	867 of 1,189		777 of 1,189	768 of 1,189
Bible in Basic English	749 of 1,189	766 of 1,189	777 of 1,189		693 of 1,189
Young's Literal Translation	712 of 1,189	778 of 1,189	768 of 1,189	693 of 1,189

Overlap is the Jaccard index of a chapter's two sets of ten nearest chapters, averaged over all chapters, as in the agreement table above; the same nearest chapter is a count of chapters. Both tables are symmetrical, and the first row of each is the measure the rest of this page uses.

The spread of chapter scores

The histogram shows the spread of chapter scores rather than just their average. Each panel represents one edition. Each column counts chapters within a similarity interval of 0.01. The lower-scoring chapters appear toward the left; the next section examines examples.

The histogram as a table

Agreement	King James Version	World English Bible	Bible in Basic English	Young's Literal Translation
0.75 to under 0.76	0	0	0	1
0.76 to under 0.77	0	0	0	0
0.77 to under 0.78	0	0	0	1
0.78 to under 0.79	0	0	0	0
0.79 to under 0.80	0	0	0	0
0.80 to under 0.81	0	0	0	0
0.81 to under 0.82	0	0	1	1
0.82 to under 0.83	0	0	0	4
0.83 to under 0.84	0	0	2	2
0.84 to under 0.85	2	0	1	1
0.85 to under 0.86	0	1	1	5
0.86 to under 0.87	0	0	3	5
0.87 to under 0.88	4	0	2	7
0.88 to under 0.89	0	0	1	18
0.89 to under 0.90	8	1	4	22
0.90 to under 0.91	6	1	15	62
0.91 to under 0.92	14	4	17	92
0.92 to under 0.93	16	6	37	122
0.93 to under 0.94	35	9	69	192
0.94 to under 0.95	84	18	104	210
0.95 to under 0.96	182	44	230	220
0.96 to under 0.97	362	83	369	158
0.97 to under 0.98	395	250	280	59
0.98 to under 0.99	80	596	51	7
0.99 to 1.00	1	176	2	0

Lower-scoring chapter comparisons

The twenty lowest-scoring chapters in each edition were read alongside their BSB counterparts. The notes use four descriptive categories: vocabulary, short chapter, textual differences and versification. All eighty comparisons were annotated as vocabulary or short-chapter examples. Those annotations describe features noticed during reading; they do not establish that other differences made no contribution to the scores.

In the King James Version

The two lowest-scoring KJV chapters are tied at 0.848. In 1 Corinthians 13, the KJV uses charity where the BSB uses love, nine times in thirteen verses. Esther 10 has three verses and calls the king Ahasuerus rather than Xerxes. Psalm 136 scores 0.871 and has different wording in its repeated refrain. Of the twenty KJV examples, 15 were annotated for vocabulary and 5 for their short length. These are observations to explore, not isolated causal findings.

Three patterns run through the list. The first is a key word repeated: charity, mercy, plague, meat offering, the oracle for the inner sanctuary. The second is numbers: the King James Version writes every count in words, threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred, and the Berean writes 74,600, so the lists in Genesis 5, Ezra 2 and Numbers 2, which are mostly numbers, read very differently to a model of modern English. The third is length: Esther 10, Psalm 117, Psalm 15, Psalm 126 and Jeremiah 45 are all chapters of six verses or fewer, where a single change of phrase is a large share of the whole.

In the other three editions

The same patterns return, with each edition's own habits on top. In the World English Bible, Esther 10 leads at 0.853, then 1 Timothy 3 at 0.896, where the deacons are servants and the church is the assembly, and Psalm 136 at 0.902, where the refrain reads loving kindness for the Berean's loving devotion; 17 of its twenty were annotated for vocabulary and 3 for short length, and the lists of Ezra 2, Nehemiah 7, Numbers 2 and Numbers 26, with their counts written in words, are all among them. In the Bible in Basic English, Psalm 136 leads at 0.813, then Psalm 128 at 0.835 and Psalm 126 at 0.836; 12 were annotated for vocabulary and 8 for short length, and these examples illustrate the edition's restricted vocabulary, which makes the tabernacle a House, the cherubim winged ones and the LORD of Hosts the Lord of armies. In Young's Literal Translation, Psalm 133 leads at 0.752, the lowest agreement of any chapter in any edition here, then Psalm 131 at 0.777 and Psalm 117 at 0.812; 12 were annotated for short length and 8 for vocabulary, and ten of Young's twenty are short psalms whose first verse, in the text read here, opens with the psalm's title, A Song of the Ascents, by David, where the Berean's text carries no titles; that is a difference in how the two texts were prepared rather than a habit of the translation, and the Limits section says how much it counts for. The effect of these differences has not been isolated experimentally. Esther 10 and Psalm 136 are among the twenty most moved chapters in all four editions.

The twenty chapters that move most in the World English Bible

#	Chapter	Agreement	Nearest ten kept	Reason	Evidence
1	Esther 10 in the Berean	0.853	7 of ten	Short chapter	Three verses, with the king called Ahasuerus rather than Xerxes, in every edition here but the Berean. King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land (World English Bible, Esther 10:1).
2	1 Timothy 3 in the Berean	0.896	9 of ten	Vocabulary	The deacons are servants, the church is the assembly, and the leader must be reverent where the Berean has dignified. Servants, in the same way, must be reverent (World English Bible, 1 Timothy 3:8).
3	Psalm 136 in the Berean	0.902	6 of ten	Vocabulary	The refrain that ends all twenty-six verses reads for his loving kindness endures forever, one word from the Berean's loving devotion, twenty-six times over. for his loving kindness endures forever (World English Bible, Psalm 136:1).
4	Numbers 2 in the Berean	0.910	8 of ten	Vocabulary	Twelve tribal counts written in words, with princes and the children of Israel where the Berean has leaders and the Israelites. were seventy-four thousand six hundred (World English Bible, Numbers 2:4).
5	Jeremiah 45 in the Berean	0.911	3 of ten	Short chapter	Five verses, with words written in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah where the Berean has a scroll at his dictation. I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest (World English Bible, Jeremiah 45:3).
6	Ezra 2 in the Berean	0.913	8 of ten	Vocabulary	A list of seventy verses in which every count is written in words and every family is children rather than descendants. The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two (World English Bible, Ezra 2:3).
7	1 Kings 6 in the Berean	0.918	8 of ten	Vocabulary	The temple is the house through the chapter, its portico a porch, and its folding panels the leaves of the doors. He built twenty cubits of the back part of the house with boards of cedar (World English Bible, 1 Kings 6:16).
8	2 Kings 7 in the Berean	0.921	5 of ten	Vocabulary	The Arameans are the Syrians eight times, and the officer on whose arm the king leaned is a captain. the army of the Syrians (World English Bible, 2 Kings 7:6).
9	Numbers 17 in the Berean	0.922	6 of ten	Vocabulary	The staffs are rods, fifteen times in thirteen verses, and the leaders of the tribes are princes of their fathers' houses. take rods from them, one for each fathers' house (World English Bible, Numbers 17:2).
10	Nehemiah 7 in the Berean	0.925	8 of ten	Vocabulary	The same list as Ezra 2, given again, with every count written in words and every family the children of its founder. The children of Parosh: two thousand one hundred seventy-two (World English Bible, Nehemiah 7:8).
11	Leviticus 13 in the Berean	0.925	8 of ten	Vocabulary	The plague of leprosy, forty-four times plague, where the Berean has an infectious skin disease, with itch, warp and woof for the rash and the weave. the plague of leprosy (World English Bible, Leviticus 13:2).
12	Esther 1 in the Berean	0.925	8 of ten	Vocabulary	Ahasuerus for Xerxes nine times, and a commandment where the Berean has an order. Now in the days of Ahasuerus (World English Bible, Esther 1:1).
13	Malachi 1 in the Berean	0.929	6 of ten	Vocabulary	The LORD of Hosts is the LORD of Armies eight times, and the defiled offerings are polluted. says the LORD of Armies to you priests who despise my name (World English Bible, Malachi 1:6).
14	Numbers 26 in the Berean	0.932	9 of ten	Vocabulary	Every clan is a family, sixty-five times, and every count is written in words. of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites (World English Bible, Numbers 26:5).
15	Genesis 39 in the Berean	0.937	9 of ten	Vocabulary	Garment for cloak, lie with me for sleep with me, and the keeper of the prison for the warden. She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" (World English Bible, Genesis 39:12).
16	Ruth 3 in the Berean	0.937	7 of ten	Vocabulary	The kinsman-redeemer is a near kinsman with a kinsman's duty, and the redeeming is left unsaid. for you are a near kinsman (World English Bible, Ruth 3:9).
17	2 Samuel 10 in the Berean	0.937	8 of ten	Vocabulary	The Ammonites are the children of Ammon eleven times and the Arameans are the Syrians thirteen times. the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob (World English Bible, 2 Samuel 10:6).
18	Esther 3 in the Berean	0.938	8 of ten	Vocabulary	Ahasuerus for Xerxes five times, and a commandment for the royal order. After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman (World English Bible, Esther 3:1).
19	Isaiah 18 in the Berean	0.938	5 of ten	Vocabulary	Seven verses in which the land of whirring wings is the land of the rustling of wings and the couriers are ambassadors. Ah, the land of the rustling of wings (World English Bible, Isaiah 18:1).
20	Psalm 150 in the Berean	0.939	6 of ten	Short chapter	Six verses, with Praise the LORD for Hallelujah and the sounding of the trumpet for the sound of the horn. Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! (World English Bible, Psalm 150:3).

The twenty chapters that move most in the Bible in Basic English

#	Chapter	Agreement	Nearest ten kept	Reason	Evidence
1	Psalm 136 in the Berean	0.813	6 of ten	Vocabulary	The refrain that ends all twenty-six verses reads for his mercy is unchanging for ever, where the Berean has His loving devotion endures forever. for his mercy is unchanging for ever (Bible in Basic English, Psalm 136:1).
2	Psalm 128 in the Berean	0.835	2 of ten	Short chapter	Six verses, with happy is the worshipper for blessed are all who fear, and a wife like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house. Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways (Bible in Basic English, Psalm 128:1).
3	Psalm 126 in the Berean	0.836	4 of ten	Short chapter	Six verses, with a change in Zion's fate for the restored captives, and cries of joy where the Berean has shouts of joy. When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream (Bible in Basic English, Psalm 126:1).
4	Esther 10 in the Berean	0.846	6 of ten	Short chapter	Three verses, with the king called Ahasuerus rather than Xerxes and a tax put on the land rather than tribute imposed. And King Ahasuerus put a tax on the land (Bible in Basic English, Esther 10:1).
5	Psalm 117 in the Berean	0.850	7 of ten	Short chapter	The shortest chapter in the Bible, two verses, with mercy and faith where the Berean has loving devotion and faithfulness. For great is his mercy to us, and his faith is unchanging for ever (Bible in Basic English, Psalm 117:2).
6	Psalm 150 in the Berean	0.864	6 of ten	Short chapter	Six verses of instruments named in Basic English, corded instruments and the loud brass for strings, cymbals and the lyre. Give him praise with instruments of brass and in the dance (Bible in Basic English, Psalm 150:4).
7	1 Corinthians 8 in the Berean	0.868	6 of ten	Vocabulary	Food sacrificed to idols is things offered to images throughout, and the weak brother is feeble. Now about things offered to images (Bible in Basic English, 1 Corinthians 8:1).
8	Numbers 2 in the Berean	0.870	8 of ten	Vocabulary	Twelve tribal counts written in words, with armies, chiefs, tents and flags where the Berean has divisions, leaders, camps and standards. The number of his army was seventy-four thousand, six hundred (Bible in Basic English, Numbers 2:4).
9	1 Kings 6 in the Berean	0.876	7 of ten	Vocabulary	The temple is the house, the inner sanctuary the inmost room, and the cherubim are winged ones and winged beings. for the inmost room (Bible in Basic English, 1 Kings 6:16).
10	Exodus 26 in the Berean	0.876	7 of ten	Vocabulary	The tabernacle is a House fifteen times, its frames are boards, its cherubim winged ones, and its loops are twists of cord. And you are to make a House for me (Bible in Basic English, Exodus 26:1).
11	Psalm 1 in the Berean	0.890	4 of ten	Short chapter	Six verses, with happy for blessed, evil-doers for the wicked, and the upright for the righteous. Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners (Bible in Basic English, Psalm 1:1).
12	Exodus 36 in the Berean	0.892	9 of ten	Vocabulary	The tabernacle is the House, its frames are boards and uprights, and acacia is hard wood, through the whole chapter of building. And for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard wood (Bible in Basic English, Exodus 36:20).
13	Zechariah 5 in the Berean	0.896	3 of ten	Vocabulary	The flying scroll is a roll in flight through the air and the measuring basket an ephah, the same two words that move the King James Version. I saw a roll in flight through the air (Bible in Basic English, Zechariah 5:1).
14	Psalm 93 in the Berean	0.897	4 of ten	Short chapter	Five verses, with power the cord of his robe where the Berean has the LORD clothed and armed with strength. power is the cord of his robe (Bible in Basic English, Psalm 93:1).
15	Isaiah 18 in the Berean	0.898	4 of ten	Vocabulary	Seven verses in which the land of whirring wings is the land of the sounding of wings and the couriers are representatives. Ho! land of the sounding of wings (Bible in Basic English, Isaiah 18:1).
16	Psalm 87 in the Berean	0.900	4 of ten	Short chapter	Seven verses, opening with this house is resting on the holy mountain where the Berean has He has founded His city on the holy mountains. This house is resting on the holy mountain (Bible in Basic English, Psalm 87:1).
17	Esther 1 in the Berean	0.900	8 of ten	Vocabulary	Ahasuerus for Xerxes nine times, captains for princes, divisions of the kingdom for provinces, and Shushan for Susa. Now it came about in the days of Ahasuerus (Bible in Basic English, Esther 1:1).
18	Ezekiel 41 in the Berean	0.901	9 of ten	Vocabulary	The sanctuary is the house fifteen times, the pillars are uprights, and the carved cherubim are pictured forms of winged beings. took the measure of the uprights (Bible in Basic English, Ezekiel 41:1).
19	Malachi 2 in the Berean	0.901	4 of ten	Vocabulary	The LORD of Hosts is the Lord of armies six times and the covenant is an agreement. so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies (Bible in Basic English, Malachi 2:4).
20	Ruth 3 in the Berean	0.901	8 of ten	Vocabulary	The kinsman-redeemer is a near relation, and spreading the corner of his garment becomes take your servant as wife. take your servant as wife, for you are a near relation (Bible in Basic English, Ruth 3:9).

The twenty chapters that move most in Young's Literal Translation

#	Chapter	Agreement	Nearest ten kept	Reason	Evidence
1	Psalm 133 in the Berean	0.752	2 of ten	Short chapter	Three verses, and the title A Song of the Ascents, by David, which the text read here folds into the first verse and the Berean's text does not carry, is a large share of them. A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant (Young's Literal Translation, Psalm 133:1).
2	Psalm 131 in the Berean	0.777	3 of ten	Short chapter	Three verses, with the title folded into the first in the text read here, Jehovah for the LORD, and hath and mine throughout. Jehovah, my heart hath not been haughty (Young's Literal Translation, Psalm 131:1).
3	Psalm 117 in the Berean	0.812	7 of ten	Short chapter	The shortest chapter in the Bible, two verses, with Jehovah for the LORD, His kindness for His loving devotion, and to the age for endures forever. Praise Jehovah, all ye nations, Glorify Him, all ye peoples. (Young's Literal Translation, Psalm 117:1).
4	Psalm 123 in the Berean	0.824	4 of ten	Short chapter	Four verses, with the title folded into the first in the text read here, a dweller in the heavens for the One enthroned in heaven, and favour for mercy. Unto Thee I have lifted up mine eyes, O dweller in the heavens (Young's Literal Translation, Psalm 123:1).
5	Psalm 126 in the Berean	0.825	4 of ten	Short chapter	Six verses, with the title folded into the first in the text read here, Jehovah's turning back the captivity for the LORD restoring the captives, and singing for shouts of joy. In Jehovah's turning back [to] the captivity of Zion, We have been as dreamers. (Young's Literal Translation, Psalm 126:1).
6	Psalm 136 in the Berean	0.829	5 of ten	Vocabulary	The refrain that ends all twenty-six verses reads for to the age [is] His kindness, where the Berean has His loving devotion endures forever, and the LORD is Jehovah. for to the age [is] His kindness (Young's Literal Translation, Psalm 136:1).
7	Zechariah 5 in the Berean	0.829	5 of ten	Vocabulary	The flying scroll is a flying roll and the measuring basket an ephah, with hath and saith through the vision. and lo, a flying roll (Young's Literal Translation, Zechariah 5:1).
8	Psalm 134 in the Berean	0.832	5 of ten	Short chapter	Three verses, with Jehovah five times where the Berean has the LORD, and the title folded into the first verse in the text read here. Lo, bless Jehovah, all servants of Jehovah (Young's Literal Translation, Psalm 134:1).
9	Psalm 15 in the Berean	0.837	3 of ten	Short chapter	Five verses, with the title A Psalm of David folded into the first in the text read here, Jehovah for the LORD, and doth and hath throughout. Jehovah, who doth sojourn in Thy tent? Who doth dwell in Thy holy hill? (Young's Literal Translation, Psalm 15:1).
10	1 Kings 6 in the Berean	0.841	7 of ten	Vocabulary	The inner sanctuary is the oracle eight times, the cherubim are cherubs, and every verb is in the present tense: he buildeth, he maketh, he overlayeth. for the oracle, for the holy of holies (Young's Literal Translation, 1 Kings 6:16).
11	1 Timothy 3 in the Berean	0.852	8 of ten	Vocabulary	The overseer is the oversight, the deacons are ministrants, the church is the assembly, and money is filthy lucre. If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth (Young's Literal Translation, 1 Timothy 3:1).
12	Psalm 127 in the Berean	0.852	3 of ten	Short chapter	Five verses, with the title A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon folded into the first in the text read here, and Jehovah for the LORD three times. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it (Young's Literal Translation, Psalm 127:1).
13	Jonah 4 in the Berean	0.852	4 of ten	Vocabulary	The plant is a gourd five times, the LORD is Jehovah six times, and the story is told in the present tense: appointeth, smiteth, drieth up. And Jehovah God appointeth a gourd (Young's Literal Translation, Jonah 4:6).
14	Psalm 11 in the Berean	0.853	5 of ten	Short chapter	Seven verses, opening with the title To the Overseer, by David, folded into the first verse in the text read here, and Jehovah for the LORD five times. In Jehovah I trusted, how say ye to my soul (Young's Literal Translation, Psalm 11:1).
15	Nehemiah 3 in the Berean	0.856	6 of ten	Vocabulary	The builders of the wall strengthened their sections thirty-three times where the Berean has repaired, and hath stands where the Berean has nothing. by their hand hath Merimoth son of Urijah, son of Koz, strengthened (Young's Literal Translation, Nehemiah 3:4).
16	Esther 10 in the Berean	0.861	7 of ten	Short chapter	Three verses, with the king called Ahasuerus rather than Xerxes and the story told in the present tense. And the king Ahasuerus setteth a tribute on the land (Young's Literal Translation, Esther 10:1).
17	Psalm 128 in the Berean	0.865	4 of ten	Short chapter	Six verses, with the title folded into the first in the text read here, O the happiness for blessed, and Jehovah for the LORD. O the happiness of every one fearing Jehovah (Young's Literal Translation, Psalm 128:1).
18	Leviticus 2 in the Berean	0.865	8 of ten	Vocabulary	The grain offering is a present to Jehovah, its aroma a sweet fragrance, and the priest hath poured, hath put and hath taken through the chapter. a present to Jehovah (Young's Literal Translation, Leviticus 2:1).
19	Leviticus 13 in the Berean	0.865	3 of ten	Vocabulary	The plague of leprosy, forty-seven times plague, where the Berean has an infectious skin disease, and hath a hundred and twelve times in fifty-nine verses. it hath become in the skin of his flesh a leprous plague (Young's Literal Translation, Leviticus 13:2).
20	Psalm 142 in the Berean	0.866	6 of ten	Short chapter	Seven verses, opening with the title An Instruction of David, a Prayer when he is in the cave, folded into the first verse in the text read here, and Jehovah for the LORD. My voice [is] unto Jehovah, I cry (Young's Literal Translation, Psalm 142:1).

The textual differences barely register

The differences between these editions that readers know best are the verses one carries and another leaves out: Acts 8:37, the benediction at Romans 16:24, the longer readings at Matthew 17:21 and Mark 9:44. The Berean Standard Bible leaves them out; the King James Version has 15 chapters that carry a verse the Berean does not. Not one of the fifteen is among the King James Version's twenty most moved chapters, and none agrees below 0.93, though ten of the fifteen move more than the average chapter: the lowest of them, Acts 24, ranks 61 among the most moved, and the best-placed such chapter ranks 67 in the Bible in Basic English, 135 in the World English Bible and 484 in Young's. The chapter representation averages overlapping four-verse windows, which can dilute a localized difference. These whole-chapter results do not measure the historical or theological importance of a textual variant, and the verse-presence check does not cover all differences within verses. One example of different passage placement is that the World English Bible ends Romans 14 with the doxology that the Berean carries at the end of Romans 16, and the two chapters agree at 0.975 and 0.977 all the same.

Every chapter whose verse numbers differ from the Berean, with its agreement

King James Version: 15 chapters

Chapter	Verse numbers only in the King James Version	Only in the Berean	Agreement	Rank among the most moved
Matthew 17	21	none	0.961	366 of 1,189
Matthew 18	11	none	0.959	327 of 1,189
Matthew 23	14	none	0.977	1,043 of 1,189
Mark 7	16	none	0.950	169 of 1,189
Mark 9	44, 46	none	0.960	354 of 1,189
Mark 11	26	none	0.959	330 of 1,189
Mark 15	28	none	0.962	392 of 1,189
Luke 17	36	none	0.971	753 of 1,189
Luke 23	17	none	0.971	781 of 1,189
John 5	4	none	0.965	509 of 1,189
Acts 8	37	none	0.973	867 of 1,189
Acts 15	34	none	0.963	430 of 1,189
Acts 24	7	none	0.935	61 of 1,189
Acts 28	29	none	0.949	155 of 1,189
Romans 16	24	none	0.963	423 of 1,189

World English Bible: 12 chapters

Chapter	Verse numbers only in the World English Bible	Only in the Berean	Agreement	Rank among the most moved
Matthew 17	21	none	0.985	691 of 1,189
Matthew 18	11	none	0.980	425 of 1,189
Matthew 23	14	none	0.988	922 of 1,189
Mark 7	16	none	0.968	135 of 1,189
Mark 9	44, 46	none	0.985	705 of 1,189
Mark 11	26	none	0.974	226 of 1,189
Mark 15	28	none	0.982	507 of 1,189
Luke 23	17	none	0.987	829 of 1,189
John 5	4	none	0.984	615 of 1,189
Acts 28	29	none	0.980	402 of 1,189
Romans 14	24, 25, 26	none	0.975	253 of 1,189
Romans 16	24	25, 26, 27	0.977	290 of 1,189

Bible in Basic English: 15 chapters

Chapter	Verse numbers only in the Bible in Basic English	Only in the Berean	Agreement	Rank among the most moved
Matthew 17	21	none	0.968	756 of 1,189
Matthew 18	11	none	0.963	592 of 1,189
Matthew 23	14	none	0.964	620 of 1,189
Mark 7	16	none	0.937	123 of 1,189
Mark 9	44, 46	none	0.972	923 of 1,189
Mark 11	26	none	0.948	231 of 1,189
Mark 15	28	none	0.962	565 of 1,189
Luke 17	36	none	0.971	903 of 1,189
Luke 23	17	none	0.973	952 of 1,189
John 5	4	none	0.970	844 of 1,189
Acts 8	37	none	0.963	585 of 1,189
Acts 15	34	none	0.968	770 of 1,189
Acts 24	7	none	0.950	267 of 1,189
Acts 28	29	none	0.957	397 of 1,189
Romans 16	24	none	0.926	67 of 1,189

Young's Literal Translation: 15 chapters

Chapter	Verse numbers only in Young's Literal Translation	Only in the Berean	Agreement	Rank among the most moved
Matthew 17	21	none	0.961	992 of 1,189
Matthew 18	11	none	0.943	597 of 1,189
Matthew 23	14	none	0.975	1,166 of 1,189
Mark 7	16	none	0.950	737 of 1,189
Mark 9	44, 46	none	0.967	1,071 of 1,189
Mark 11	26	none	0.964	1,037 of 1,189
Mark 15	28	none	0.966	1,063 of 1,189
Luke 17	36	none	0.959	954 of 1,189
Luke 23	17	none	0.970	1,124 of 1,189
John 5	4	none	0.963	1,016 of 1,189
Acts 8	37	none	0.969	1,114 of 1,189
Acts 15	34	none	0.955	868 of 1,189
Acts 24	7	none	0.937	484 of 1,189
Acts 28	29	none	0.952	812 of 1,189
Romans 16	24	none	0.957	892 of 1,189

Higher-scoring comparisons and familiar parallels

At the other end, the chapters that move least tell two stories. In the King James Version they are the psalms whose King James wording the modern editions kept: Psalm 23 leads at 0.993, the same score as the closest pair of different chapters on the main map, followed by Psalm 51 and Psalm 34. In the other three editions they are lists of names: 1 Chronicles 1 leads in the World English Bible at 0.996, Genesis 36 in the Bible in Basic English at 0.992, Joshua 12 in Young's at 0.984, with 1 Chronicles 11 among the ten least moved in each of the three. Repeated names may contribute to these similarities, but names and transliterations can also differ between editions.

The plan for this study expected the parallel passages, 2 Kings 18 to 20 and Isaiah 36 to 39, and Kings against Chronicles, to move least, on the thought that the same account in the same words is the same in any edition. That is not what the measure shows. The parallels move about as much as other chapters of their kind: of the 21 parallel chapters checked, 16 sit in the less-moved half of the King James Version, 17 in the World English Bible and the Bible in Basic English, and 14 in Young's, and in the King James Version and the World English Bible, Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7, the list of returning families given twice, are among the most moved chapters of all, and contain lists whose numbers are written out in words. What does hold is that a parallel keeps its parallel. In the Berean, 20 of the 21 have a parallel as their nearest chapter, 2 Kings 19's is Isaiah 37 and so on down the list; the one that does not is Isaiah 38, Hezekiah's illness and his psalm, whose nearest chapter is Psalm 102. Every one of the 21 keeps the same nearest chapter in the King James Version, the World English Bible and the Bible in Basic English as in the Berean, and 20 of the 21 keep it in Young's, where Isaiah 38 finds Lamentations 3 nearest instead. The translation moves the pair together.

The parallels in each edition, and the main map's forty closest pairs

Chapter	King James Version	World English Bible	Bible in Basic English	Young's Literal Translation
2 Kings 18	0.980, rank 78	0.991, rank 130	0.979, rank 75	0.933, rank 793
2 Kings 19	0.978, rank 140	0.993, rank 30	0.974, rank 213	0.943, rank 594
2 Kings 20	0.974, rank 269	0.985, rank 527	0.975, rank 154	0.952, rank 395
Isaiah 36	0.984, rank 21	0.993, rank 29	0.975, rank 155	0.952, rank 393
Isaiah 37	0.980, rank 79	0.993, rank 13	0.978, rank 90	0.942, rank 596
Isaiah 38	0.970, rank 458	0.984, rank 592	0.964, rank 560	0.946, rank 533, nearest chapter changes
Isaiah 39	0.959, rank 856	0.967, rank 1,063	0.943, rank 1,011	0.941, rank 637
1 Kings 8	0.980, rank 83	0.990, rank 183	0.977, rank 111	0.959, rank 240
2 Chronicles 6	0.974, rank 276	0.983, rank 662	0.969, rank 377	0.959, rank 252
2 Samuel 7	0.983, rank 33	0.990, rank 167	0.964, rank 553	0.944, rank 574
1 Chronicles 17	0.982, rank 42	0.990, rank 154	0.956, rank 817	0.944, rank 557
2 Samuel 22	0.987, rank 8	0.992, rank 62	0.975, rank 186	0.958, rank 275
Psalm 18	0.984, rank 19	0.991, rank 116	0.976, rank 129	0.960, rank 225
2 Kings 25	0.967, rank 616	0.988, rank 323	0.970, rank 355	0.942, rank 607
Jeremiah 52	0.969, rank 528	0.985, rank 479	0.965, rank 543	0.931, rank 822
Ezra 2	0.899, rank 1,178	0.913, rank 1,184	0.909, rank 1,160	0.923, rank 930
Nehemiah 7	0.914, rank 1,164	0.925, rank 1,180	0.921, rank 1,141	0.929, rank 859
1 Kings 10	0.967, rank 610	0.989, rank 240	0.973, rank 247	0.951, rank 431
2 Chronicles 9	0.969, rank 515	0.990, rank 155	0.977, rank 120	0.956, rank 313
1 Kings 22	0.978, rank 134	0.988, rank 267	0.984, rank 18	0.966, rank 125
2 Chronicles 18	0.978, rank 136	0.984, rank 578	0.980, rank 57	0.958, rank 255

The main map's forty closest pairs of chapters across books, in each edition

Edition	Still among each other's ten nearest	Still each other's nearest chapter
Berean Standard Bible (the map itself)	40 of 40	30 of 40
King James Version	40 of 40	30 of 40
World English Bible	40 of 40	29 of 40
Bible in Basic English	40 of 40	27 of 40
Young's Literal Translation	40 of 40	30 of 40

Rank counts from the chapter that moves least (1) to the one that moves most (1,189). A pair is mutual when each chapter is the other's nearest chapter.

On the map

The figure keeps the BSB layout fixed and colors each chapter by its similarity to its KJV counterpart. It shows where lower and higher scores occur on that existing layout. It does not show where the chapters would appear on a separately generated KJV map.

• 0.97 and above
• 0.95 to 0.97
• 0.93 to 0.95
• 0.90 to 0.93
• below 0.90

The labeled chapters, with the agreement that colors them

#	Chapter	Agreement	Nearest ten kept	Reason
1	1 Corinthians 13	0.848	4 of ten	Vocabulary
2	Esther 10	0.848	7 of ten	Short chapter
3	Psalm 136	0.871	6 of ten	Vocabulary
4	Zechariah 5	0.876	4 of ten	Vocabulary
5	Psalm 117	0.876	8 of ten	Short chapter
6	1 Kings 6	0.876	9 of ten	Vocabulary
7	Esther 1	0.891	8 of ten	Vocabulary
8	Isaiah 18	0.892	3 of ten	Vocabulary
9	Genesis 5	0.896	9 of ten	Vocabulary
10	Psalm 15	0.898	5 of ten	Short chapter

Every chapter's value, and the reason and evidence for these, are in the table of the twenty most moved above and in the data file.

What this cannot tell you

• It measures one model's representations. EmbeddingGemma was trained on multilingual data. Its similarity scores are not expert judgments about older English, translation accuracy or the meaning of a passage. The effect of a particular word has not been isolated here.
• It does not rank translations by quality. An edition that moves more is not worse, and one that moves less is not better; the edition the map is drawn from sets the zero, and the Berean was chosen for the map because it is public domain and modern, not because it is a standard.
• It does not draw the other maps. The comparisons use chapter representations rather than positions on a drawing. Persistent neighboring matches do not establish that separately generated layouts would have the same shape.
• The texts differ in how they were prepared, not only in how they translate. The text of Young's Literal Translation read here folds each psalm's title, A Psalm of David or To the Overseer, into the psalm's first verse: 116 of the 150 psalms open that way, while the Berean, King James, World English and Basic English texts read here carry no such titles, whatever their printed editions do. That is a difference between the files, not a habit of the translation, and may contribute to differences in the shortest psalms: ten of Young's twenty most moved chapters are psalms that open with such a title. Young's agrees with the Berean at 0.917 over the Psalms against 0.942 over the other 65 books; Jehovah and the short psalms are in that gap too, so the titles' share of it is not separated out here.
• Chapter averages can obscure localized differences. The whole-chapter score does not establish that a textual variant is unimportant. A passage-level comparison would ask a different question.
• The lines at 0.95 and 0.90 are choices. They make the counts legible; the histogram and the data file carry every chapter so that other lines can be drawn.

How this study was made

To cite a figure elsewhere, say which edition it compares with the Berean and carry the model with it. Corrections are welcome through the contact page.

Sources

1. The Berean Standard Bible, released into the public domain, read on this site at /bible/bsb/.
2. The King James Version, public domain outside the UK (the supplier notes UK printing restrictions), read on this site at /bible/kjv/; the text as published by eBible.org.
3. The World English Bible, public domain, read on this site at /bible/web/; eBible.org.
4. The Bible in Basic English, public domain, read on this site at /bible/bbe/; eBible.org.
5. Young's Literal Translation, public domain, read on this site at /bible/ylt/; eBible.org.
6. Google, EmbeddingGemma (embeddinggemma-300m), the sentence embedding model and its model card, released under the Gemma Terms of Use.
7. A Map of Meaning, the main page, whose method, windows and forty closest pairs this study reuses.

Questions people ask

Does this page say which translation is best?

No. It measures how one model reads each edition of the same chapter, and how far those readings sit from its reading of the Berean Standard Bible. A different score can reflect wording, textual content or preparation of the digital edition. It does not establish which translation is more accurate, more faithful or better to read.

Why does 1 Corinthians 13 move so much in the King James Version?

A notable difference is charity, used nine times in the King James Version where the BSB uses love. This may contribute to the score, but the study did not isolate that word's effect. Read both chapters in context rather than treating the score as a judgment of the translation.

Do the extra verses in the older editions move their chapters?

In this particular comparison, the whole-chapter scores remain high. Chapter representations average overlapping four-verse windows, which can obscure localized differences. The fifteen chapters where the King James Version carries a verse the Berean Standard Bible leaves out all agree with their Berean readings at 0.93 or better, and none is among its twenty most moved, though ten of the fifteen move more than the average chapter.

Why does Young's Literal Translation move so much more than the others?

Against the Berean Standard Bible it does, and the Berean is the yardstick for most of this page. Measured against the King James Version instead, Young's agrees at 0.964, as closely as the Bible in Basic English does; against the World English Bible and Basic English it is still the farthest edition. Two habits of the edition run through its Old Testament: it writes Jehovah where the Berean writes the LORD, which puts Jehovah in 25 percent of its Old Testament verses, and forms such as he saith occur under the study's verb-form matching rule in 52 percent of them; one or the other touches 62 percent. Its New Testament, which has no Jehovah, agrees with the Berean at 0.958, close to the King James Version's 0.964. On top of that, the text of Young's read here folds each psalm's title into the psalm's first verse, where the other texts carry none; the Limits section says what that is and how much it counts for.

Which two editions are closest to each other?

By average agreement, the Berean Standard Bible and the World English Bible, at 0.980, with the King James Version and the World English Bible next at 0.978. By neighborhoods, the King James Version and the World English Bible: their ten-neighbor sets have an average Jaccard overlap of 0.69 and have the same nearest chapter for 867 of the 1,189 chapters, 73 percent. The section on every edition against every other has the full matrix.

Would a map drawn from the King James Version look the same?

That has not been tested by drawing a second map. Every one of the forty closest pairs of chapters across books on the main map is still within each other's ten nearest chapters in the King James Version, and the average chapter keeps seven or eight of its ten nearest. This page does not draw the second map; it measures the readings the map would be drawn from.

Can I use the data?

Yes. The method section links to the data file, which carries every number on this page, every chapter's agreement in every edition, and the reasons with their evidence. The BSB, WEB, BBE and YLT texts are public domain; the KJV has a UK rights exception noted by its supplier; a link back to this page is welcome.