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aqrinc:
Hi Brad,

Hope this is of some help in your quest for answers: Murdock is the only translation that completely
omits the first part of the verse. The others in brackets denote a later addition to the oldest text.

Rev 20:5  This is the first resurrection. (James Murdock NT Translation of The Syriac Peshitta)

Rev 20:5 (The rest of the dead do not live until the thousand years should be finished.) This is the former resurrection. (CLV) Concordant Literal

Rev 20:5  (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were over.) This is the first raising of the dead. (GNB) Good News Bible

Rev 20:5 (The rest of the dead were not restored to life till the thousand years were ended.) This is the First Resurrection. (Twentieth Century NT)

Rev 20:5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.) This is the first resurrection. (NIT New English Translation)

george. :)

odinpop:
Thank you all for you help!! Rev 20:5 has bothered me for some time and knowing that it is a spurious passage has resolved this issue for me. I did look into the validity of the spurious passages list and I am satisfied that most of the listings are relatively accurate. There is enough information on the web concerning this subject that anyone that spends a few hours should be able to satisfy themselves as well.

Basically the spurious passage list came from Constantine Tischendorf , who discovered the Sinaitic Manuscript in 1844. The Manuscript is currently the earliest Greek manuscript of the New Testament (3rd century) and is therefore considered to be the most accurate.  It is roughly 700 years earlier than the manuscripts used for the King James and 200 years earlier than any other manuscript containing the book of Revelations. Tischendorf made notations of variations from the King James as he went through these manuscripts, compiling the spurious passages list.
For those of you interested. Here is a few of the sites that have some good information on the Sinaitic Manuscripts Discovered by Constantine Tischendorf at Mt. Sinai:

http://jacksonsnyder.com/nt/pages/00pref.htm

And

http://www.davidcox.com.mx/library/T/Tischendorf,%20von%20Constantin%20-%20Discovery%20of%20Sinaitic%20Manuscript.pdf

Here is the link to a translation of the New Testament taken directly from the Sinaitic Manuscript.

http://jacksonsnyder.com/nt/index.htm

aqrinc:

Hi Brad,

Thanks for doing the research yourself, also thanks for the links.

george. ;D

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