Page talk:An Exposition of the Old and New Testament (1828) vol 2.djvu/27

Older form of KJV than now in use

I noticed that in Joshua 4:6 the words familiar in later editions of the KJV as "What mean ye by these stones?" are printed as "What mean you by these stones?". I discovered that this was how it was in a 1611 edition. "You" is also present in the first and last phrases of verse where more recent printings have "ye". The 18th century minor textual revisions must have standardised the use of "ye" as subject and "you" as object. The other instances of "you" in "take you" (both in 1611 and later) suggest a reflexive verb form - i.e. not "ye take", but "take yourselves" - as we might say today "get yourselves a stone each". PeterR2 (talk) 09:52, 31 July 2021 (UTC)