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About these 1611 margin notes ✦ ＊
These cross-references (✦) and translator notes (＊) are transcribed from the original 1611 King James margins — in their original spelling. They are the translators' own pointers to related verses and their alternate-reading notes.
Honest caveat: the 1611's marginal references are famously imperfect. The scholar F. H. A. Scrivener documented that they were carelessly printed and frequently cite the Latin Vulgate's chapter-and-verse divisions rather than the English Bible's — so some references (especially in the Psalms) point to a slightly different verse than they would today. We link them exactly as the 1611 gave them, errors and all, rather than silently "correcting" to a modern system. A few references that name a person or place rather than a verse aren't clickable. This is the receipts standard: shown as they actually are.
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