Why do psalms have different numbers

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Prayer for this evening. Top The Orthodox Church continues to follow the Greek system, meaning that contemporary Orthodox translations of the Bible number most Psalms differently than contemporary Protestant and Catholic Bibles this may be important to remember if you ever hold an ecumenical Bible study.

In summary: the reason that the numbering of the Psalms is different for different Bibles ancient and modern is because some Bibles follow the Hebrew numbering system and others follow the Greek pattern. Grant Rapids: Eerdmans, Married to Hayley. Father of Bree. Love Reading, Thinking, and Blogging. View more posts. Hi — are you doing the BS carnival this month — where would I send suggested links drmacdonald is my Twitter handle.

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So now the Greek numbering is only one psalm behind the Hebrew numbering again. Since both the Hebrew and Greek editions of the book of Psalms both have entries, though, how do they get joined back up again? That happens when we hit Hebrew psalm , which also is divided into the Greek psalms numbered and With that resolved, the two numbering systems can now march arm-in-arm through the final three psalms: , , and DianeSchwind That is an unwarranted assumption.

Although everyone agrees that the Psalms were originally written in Hebrew, that does not imply that the Masoretic division of the Psalms was the original one. Adonais Very true! I prefer the Douay-Rheims in principle, but as a convert, certain of the Psalms will just never sound right to me except in the King James Version.

Not only have whole books Deuterocanonical been eliminated and words changed from Protestant versions, some newer Catholic versions have changed the wording. And words have meaning.