Editing King James Version (section)

===Marginal notes===

In obedience to their instructions, the translators provided no marginal interpretation of the text, but in some 8,500 places a marginal note offers an alternative English wording.{{sfn|Scrivener|1884|p=56}} The majority of these notes offer a more literal rendering of the original, introduced as "Heb", "Chal" ([[Chaldea#Language|Chaldee]], referring to Aramaic), "Gr" or "Lat". Others indicate a variant reading of the source text (introduced by "or"). Some of the annotated variants derive from alternative editions in the original languages, or from variant forms quoted in the [[patristics|fathers]]. More commonly, though, they indicate a difference between the literal original language reading and that in the translators' preferred recent Latin versions: [[Immanuel Tremellius|Tremellius]] for the Old Testament, [[Franciscus Junius (the elder)|Junius]] for the Apocrypha, and [[Beza]] for the New Testament.{{sfn|Scrivener|1884|p=43}} At thirteen places in the New Testament<ref>{{cite book|last=Metzger|first=Bruce|title=Historical and Literary Studies|year=1968|publisher=Brill|page=144}}</ref><ref>e.g. {{bibleref|Luke|17:36|KJV}} and {{bibleref|Acts|25:6|KJV}}</ref> a marginal note records a variant reading found in some Greek manuscript copies; in almost all cases reproducing a counterpart textual note at the same place in Beza's editions.{{sfn|Scrivener|1884|p=58}}

A few more extensive notes clarify Biblical names and units of measurement or currency. Modern reprintings rarely reproduce these annotated variants, although they are to be found in the [[New Cambridge Paragraph Bible]]. In addition, there were originally some 9,000 scriptural cross-references, in which one text was related to another. Such cross-references had long been common in Latin Bibles, and most of those in the Authorized Version were copied unaltered from this Latin tradition. Consequently the early editions of the KJV retain many Vulgate verse references—e.g. in the numbering of the [[Psalms]].{{sfn|Scrivener|1884|p=118}} At the head of each chapter, the translators provided a short précis of its contents, with verse numbers; these are rarely included in complete form in modern editions.