---
slug: tyndale-exactly
passed: 2026-10-14
by: the assay line (research/assay-line/cited-1014b/), Codex fixer directed by claude-assaying-boyle-1014; source record by Codex, checked by Codex
checked: 111
confirmed: 67
wrong: 40
unverifiable: 0
observed: 0
stale: 4
---

This was the directed repair pass for tyndale-exactly at f5e5f84f34, using the 46-item cited-1014b triage. It re-read the evidence for the changes, reproduced the collision, sampling and histogram counterexamples, preserved the two rejected findings and the 26 listed MINOR items, and retained the 65 CONFIRMED claims the Codex checker re-read. Those retained confirmations are explicitly attributed to N2; this is not a new audit of all 306 source-record entries. MINOR lines count toward wrong here, and each finding keeps its own disposition. Escaped \u2014 records punctuation in an original claim without introducing that character. The repair review confirmed two missed copies in shared memory/ledger-archive/P2.md:80; X18/X28 and X26/X31 remain open there pending board notes and a directing-instance correction. The layer page and its markdown are corrected.

## Claims

- MINOR | X1: These are not compatible, and none of them says what a word is, what counts as the same word across four centuries of spelling, or what the denominator is. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndale_Bible; https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9707/daniell.html | Directing triage: The note distinguishes textual influence from word-for-word agreement and a whole-Bible scope from the New Testament. Those distinctions support a MINOR qualification of the page's comparison, rather than an established contradiction among the quoted sources. Tier C: list. Any eventual qualification belongs in the surrounding prose; preserve the quotations themselves.
- WRONG | X2: Every collapse is a licence to match wrongly, and the weight of the collapsed groups is a hard ceiling on how much of the answer could be that error. | git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/normalize.mjs; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/lcs.mjs | Reproduced with the pinned functions: L2(good) = L2(god) = god. A target-only vocabulary containing good has collision share 0, while god/good matches 1/1. Including both spellings gives two fused types. Counts are retained; the ceiling inference is removed.
- MINOR | X3: Two of the rungs are worth setting against each other, because they share no assumptions. | git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/normalize.mjs:101; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/learn.mjs:122 | Directing triage: I reread f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/normalize.mjs:101 and learn.mjs:119-122. L2 finishes with "return L1(out) \u007c\u007c L1(w);" and the learned key with "return (w) => L1(map.get(w) \u007c\u007c w);". Both share the typographic folding, although their additional spelling rules differ. This is a MINOR overstatement of the independence of the page's two checking methods. Tier C: list; the computed retention values are not contradicted by this finding.
- WRONG | X4: A sample of the map the texts taught, longest first | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:757 | learn.mjs sorts accepted pairs by attestation count and renderMap preserves that order. The first three counts are 331, 243, 229 for lorde, saye, thinges. The caption now says most attested first.
- CONFIRMED | X5: So here are readings from the same instrument on five different pairs of texts. | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:780 | Re-read renderControls and the census controls: six rows use five distinct text pairs; shuffling reuses KJV/Tyndale. The five-pair sentence is true and is preserved. Reject the finding.
- WRONG | X6: The same measure, on four different pairs of texts | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:780 | renderControls contains five distinct text pairs and one shuffled KJV/Tyndale measurement. The caption now names five pairs plus the shuffled control.
- WRONG | X7: Two of them are marked because they are not in the line: the Rheims New Testament was made from the Latin Vulgate by Catholic exiles who had every reason not to borrow from Tyndale, and the Bible in Basic English was written inside a thousand-word vocabulary and could not have borrowed from him even where it wanted to. | https://pcsba.org/resources/publications/Books/Bible/eng/bbe.pdf; https://ebible.org/engBBE/GEN01.htm | Re-read the N1 introductory Note excerpt for the vocabulary constraint. The PDF fetch was blocked here, but eBible BBE Genesis 1:3 independently prints Let there be light. Restricted vocabulary permits shared phrases; no actual borrowing is inferred.
- CONFIRMED | X8: Ask the same question of the Geneva Bible of 1599, the version the King James translators had on the desk and were instructed to displace, and the New Testament divides in three. | https://thekingsbible.com/Library/InstructionsToTranslators; https://archive.org/download/summesubstanceof00barl/summesubstanceof00barl_djvu.txt | Re-read translator rules 1 and 14 and Barlow, printed p. 35. The Bishops Bible was the instructed base and Geneva an allowed alternative; Barlow reports James seeking one uniform translation binding the Church to it alone, after his criticism of Geneva. Base text and displacement in use differ. Reject the finding and preserve the Geneva comparison.
- MINOR | X9: The corpus is twelve public-domain translations, fetched as USFM from eBible.org. research/tyndale-census/sources.json records the SHA-256 of every archive, and node research/tyndale-census/fetch.mjs --check re-downloads them, refuses any whose digest has moved, and compares the parse against the committed text. | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/copyright.htm; https://ebible.org/engBBE/copyright.htm; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/sources.json | Directing triage: The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- MINOR | X10: Everything this page states is asserted by node verify-tyndale-exactly.mjs , which reads the built page, recomputes the census independently, and checks that the code your browser just ran returns the same answer as the code in the repository over all 180,405 words. | git show f5e5f84f34:verify-tyndale-exactly.mjs; git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html | Directing triage: I reread f5e5f84f34:verify-tyndale-exactly.mjs, especially lines 316-338 and its other uses of page, and public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:216,551-554. The verifier selects "data-n" bindings and selected quoted strings; it contains no assertion of the literal film rate "1,883.9 a second". This independently supports the note's coverage gap without rerunning its mutation experiment. Re-level to MINOR under the task's explicit rule for overstatements of the page's own checking, including universal checking claims. Tier C: list. The observed coverage limitation remains recorded; this is not a rejection or a downgrade for convenience.
- WRONG | X11: The resampling experiment shows only that sampling variation cannot carry a figure computed this way up to eighty-three, which means the two are counting different things, and says nothing about which counting is better. | git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/census.mjs; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/data/census.json | Independently rebuilt all 7,957 verse counts from the pinned texts and map: 130,472/180,405 overall. The eighteen distinct block indices recorded in fixer-probes.json yield 6,400/7,705 = 83.062946%. They were deliberately selected, not drawn randomly. The finite simulation and its zero recorded successes remain unchanged.
- MINOR | X12: Tyndale translated the Pentateuch and Jonah and left Joshua to Chronicles in manuscript. | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42514/42514-h/42514-h.htm | Directing triage: The supplied source excerpt describes the Joshua-to-Chronicles attribution conditionally, including "If this surmise be correct". That supports a MINOR qualification of certainty, not a finding that Tyndale did not do the work. Tier C: list the missing qualification. The Pentateuch and Jonah statement is supported; do not edit the source's quoted words.
- STALE | X13: Coverdale 1535, Matthew 1537, the Great Bible 1539 and the Bishops' Bible 1568 all stand between Tyndale and Geneva, and none of them was available as a public-domain machine-readable text. | git show f5e5f84f34:memory/log.d/2026-09-07T0230Z-tyndale-exactly.md | The 2026-09-07 follow-up log records available CC0 TEI Coverdale 1535 A10349 and Bishops 1568 A10708, a Matthew 1537 gap, and Great Bible 1540 rather than proof for the 1539 printing. The earlier availability rationale is dated and replaced with the actual census omission; none of these texts has been newly tested.
- MINOR | X14: All twelve texts are public domain, published as USFM by eBible.org . | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/copyright.htm; https://ebible.org/engBBE/copyright.htm; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/sources.json | Directing triage: The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- MINOR | X15: The quotations in circulation are linked at their source, each with the date it was read. | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:700; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/data/claims.json | Directing triage: I reread f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:706-719. renderClaims builds its citation from who, where and says; it does not render retrievedUtc. The note identifies the missing displayed date for Nielson/Skousen while recording that the date exists in the data. Keep MINOR as citation metadata precision and list at tier C. No quotation needs changing.
- WRONG | X16: the Bible in Basic English was written inside a thousand-word vocabulary and could not have borrowed from him even where it wanted to | https://pcsba.org/resources/publications/Books/Bible/eng/bbe.pdf; https://ebible.org/engBBE/GEN01.htm | Re-read the N1 introductory Note excerpt for the vocabulary constraint. The PDF fetch was blocked here, but eBible BBE Genesis 1:3 independently prints Let there be light. Restricted vocabulary permits shared phrases; no actual borrowing is inferred.
- MINOR | X17: All twelve texts are public domain, published as USFM by eBible.org | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/copyright.htm; https://ebible.org/engBBE/copyright.htm; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/sources.json | Directing triage: The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- WRONG | X18: retention has never had a baseline | https://www.sznbk1988.hu/doc/SZNBK_2011_Isteni_bolcsesseg_emberi_tapasztalat.pdf | Re-read Juhasz, printed pp. 129-130, note 4: he reports an earlier KJV/Wycliffe comparison, treated as independent, with about seventy percent in common and an edition caveat. This contradicts the universal priority claim, without establishing a predecessor to the exact Rheims/LCS comparison.
- MINOR | X19: Accept any two words within a third of their letters as the same word, in Tyndale’s order, and the same six passages give 80.4 per cent against his 82.4. | git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/lcs.mjs; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/mansbridge.mjs; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/census.mjs | Directing triage: I reread f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/mansbridge.mjs:93-100 and census.mjs:117-121,345-347. The comparisons apply L2 before edit distance, with a 0.34 relative-distance threshold. Keep MINOR for the compressed description of that permissive rule, rather than treating the reproduced 80.4 percent as a numerical error. Tier C: list; an eventual clarification should name L2 and 0.34.
- STALE | X20: That is an over-estimate of how much is new in 1611, because four more English Bibles stand between Tyndale and Geneva and none of them was available to test. | git show f5e5f84f34:memory/log.d/2026-09-07T0230Z-tyndale-exactly.md | The generated attrnote repeats X13. It now says the intermediate Bibles are omitted from this comparison and that the follow-up located Coverdale and Bishops texts. The same single Updated line dates the search status.
- WRONG | X21: Bad OCR can only push the real score down, so 85 against 0.1 is evidence, and a low score would not have been. | git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/data/provenance.json | Re-read provenance.mjs: the score is vocabulary set membership. An OCR substitution can create a queried spelling, as well as remove one. This is a counterexample to the one-way claim, not a claim that a particular OCR error occurred. Recorded counts remain 802/943 and 1/942.
- MINOR | X22: Every figure on this page is written in by the page from research/tyndale-census/data/census.json, which is the output of a run that reads 181,998 words of Tyndale and 180,405 of the King James. | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:220; git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:927 | Directing triage: I reread f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:216,916-930. The film rate is literal HTML, and the provenance paragraph uses its own data. Thus the universal figure-provenance claim is too broad. This is MINOR under the task's explicit treatment of overclaims about automated checking. Tier C: list, sharing one error label with X23; the census tables do load their figures from census.json.
- MINOR | X23: Nothing here is a number somebody typed into prose. | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:220; git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:927 | Directing triage: I reread f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:216,926-930. "1,883.9 a second" is present as literal prose, so "Nothing here" overstates automated figure insertion. Keep MINOR under the explicit own-checking rule and list at tier C. This is the same universal automation overclaim as X22, not a separate defect in the value 1883.9.
- MINOR | X24: Rung Assumes Retention King James word types it fuses Share of its words L0 literal Nothing. Case and punctuation only. 57.55% 0 0.0% L1 typographic i and j are one letter; u and v are one letter. 59.97% 0 0.0% L2 orthographic Four named rules of Tudor spelling. 73.34% 285 27.5% learned from the texts Only pairs the two texts attest. 72.32% 20 1.4% learned, cross-fitted The map fitted on half the books and applied to the other half. 70.15% \u2014 \u2014 upper bound: order ignored A King James word counts if it appears anywhere in Tyndale’s same verse. 73.86% \u2014 \u2014 upper bound: any near spelling Any two words within a third of their letters count as one. This certainly overstates. 81.43% \u2014 \u2014 | git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/lcs.mjs; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/mansbridge.mjs; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/census.mjs | Directing triage: I reread f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/census.mjs:117-121,345-347 and mansbridge.mjs:93-100. The near-spelling comparison uses L2 forms and relative edit distance at most 0.34. This table repeats X19's compressed rule description; its numerical result is not challenged. Keep MINOR and list at tier C. The other table cells are not reasons to change the displayed retention figures.
- WRONG | X25: y as a vowel is i; a listed vowel pair is its first vowel; a doubled letter is a single letter; a final e is silent. Written by hand, applied blind, and it fuses real pairs, which the table below counts. | git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/normalize.mjs:62 | DIGRAPHS maps ie to e, and L2_RULES[1].apply(ie) returns e. The first-vowel description now names the exception; no mapping or retention value changed.
- WRONG | X26: In June 1997, at the Library of Congress, William Tyndale's biographer announced a figure: "83 percent of the King James New Testament is Tyndale exactly." The study behind it calls itself, in its own subtitle, an estimation based on sampling, and it sampled eighteen passages out of 260 chapters. | https://api.openalex.org/works/doi:10.1179/ref_1998_3_1_004 | Fetched OpenAlex and reconstructed abstract_inverted_index by integer position. The eighteen passages cover portions of the Bible translated by Tyndale, with separate New and Old Testament estimates. They are not all located in the 260 New Testament chapters.
- MINOR | X27: The gap of ten points or more is not sampling luck, and it is not the spelling: twenty thousand simulated eighteen-passage draws never once reach 83, and a chapter-by-chapter replication of the one study whose passages and method are published lands 11.4 points below him on his own six New Testament chapters, closing to 2.0 when the rule is loosened to accept any two words within a third of their letters. | git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/lcs.mjs; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/mansbridge.mjs; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/census.mjs | Re-read mansbridge.mjs and census.mjs: the permissive rule first applies L2, then accepts relative character edit distance at most 0.34. Clarified this rule in the dek sentence already changed for X11, as the same-sentence exception permits. No MINOR correction line added.
- WRONG | X28: And the second finding is the comparison nobody had made: retention has never had a baseline, so the 1582 Rheims New Testament, made from the Latin Vulgate by Catholic exiles with every motive to avoid him, was run through the same instrument and still shares 55.7 per cent of Tyndale's words. | https://www.sznbk1988.hu/doc/SZNBK_2011_Isteni_bolcsesseg_emberi_tapasztalat.pdf | Re-read Juhasz, printed pp. 129-130, note 4: he reports an earlier KJV/Wycliffe comparison, treated as independent, with about seventy percent in common and an edition caveat. This contradicts the universal priority claim, without establishing a predecessor to the exact Rheims/LCS comparison.
- MINOR | X29: Twelve public-domain witnesses, every digest recorded, the Tyndale text checked against a second digitisation and against the photographed 1534 leaves. | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/copyright.htm; https://ebible.org/engBBE/copyright.htm; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/sources.json | Directing triage: The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- MINOR | X30: A verse that is all his | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:1198 | Directing triage: I reread f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:1198-1205 and engine.js, and replayed MAT 5:2 with the pinned map: learned matches 9/9 while literal matches 6/9. The button selects from learned whole verses without resetting the current rung. Its label is true under the selection criterion but omits that condition. Keep MINOR for the missing rung qualification and list at tier C; do not turn the note into a claim that the learned whole-verse result is false.
- WRONG | X31: it sampled eighteen passages out of 260 chapters. | https://api.openalex.org/works/doi:10.1179/ref_1998_3_1_004 | Fetched OpenAlex and reconstructed abstract_inverted_index by integer position. The eighteen passages cover portions of the Bible translated by Tyndale, with separate New and Old Testament estimates. They are not all located in the 260 New Testament chapters.
- MINOR | X32: All twelve texts are public domain, published as USFM by eBible.org. | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/copyright.htm; https://ebible.org/engBBE/copyright.htm; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/sources.json | Directing triage: The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- MINOR | X33: All twelve texts are public domain, published as USFM by eBible.org. | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/copyright.htm; https://ebible.org/engBBE/copyright.htm; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/sources.json | Directing triage: The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- MINOR | X34: All twelve texts are public domain, published as USFM by eBible.org. | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/copyright.htm; https://ebible.org/engBBE/copyright.htm; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/sources.json | Directing triage: The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- MINOR | X35: All twelve texts are public domain, published as USFM by eBible.org. | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/copyright.htm; https://ebible.org/engBBE/copyright.htm; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/sources.json | Directing triage: The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- MINOR | X36: All twelve texts are public domain, published as USFM by eBible.org. | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/copyright.htm; https://ebible.org/engBBE/copyright.htm; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/sources.json | Directing triage: The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- MINOR | X37: All twelve texts are public domain, published as USFM by eBible.org. | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/copyright.htm; https://ebible.org/engBBE/copyright.htm; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/sources.json | Directing triage: The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- MINOR | X38: All twelve texts are public domain, published as USFM by eBible.org. | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/copyright.htm; https://ebible.org/engBBE/copyright.htm; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/sources.json | Directing triage: The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- MINOR | X39: All twelve texts are public domain, published as USFM by eBible.org. | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/copyright.htm; https://ebible.org/engBBE/copyright.htm; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/sources.json | Directing triage: The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- MINOR | X40: All twelve texts are public domain, published as USFM by eBible.org. | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/copyright.htm; https://ebible.org/engBBE/copyright.htm; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/sources.json | Directing triage: The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- MINOR | X41: All twelve texts are public domain, published as USFM by eBible.org. | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/copyright.htm; https://ebible.org/engBBE/copyright.htm; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/sources.json | Directing triage: The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- MINOR | X42: All twelve texts are public domain, published as USFM by eBible.org. | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/copyright.htm; https://ebible.org/engBBE/copyright.htm; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/sources.json | Directing triage: The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- MINOR | X43: All twelve texts are public domain, published as USFM by eBible.org. | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/copyright.htm; https://ebible.org/engBBE/copyright.htm; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/sources.json | Directing triage: The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- STALE | X44: "dateModified":"2026-09-07" | git show f5e5f84f34:memory/log.d/2026-09-25T0900Z-tyndale-in-the-right-ear.md; git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:31 | Re-read the Article JSON-LD and the 2026-09-25 film/correction log. dateModified now says 2026-10-14. The substantive correction lines date this revision; the explicit JSON-LD exception requires no additional page line.
- WRONG | X45: (added) Sampling variation is then not an argument, it is a histogram. | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:1114 | Replayed the original inline renderer: 70 zero-height block bars, against 25 nonzero chapter bars. The census now exports its 398 actual consecutive verse blocks and both options draw from their own units. The final block has seventeen verses; redraw preserves the selected option.
- STALE | X46: (added) node research/tyndale-census/census.mjs      # prints every figure on this page | git show f5e5f84f34:memory/log.d/2026-09-07T0230Z-tyndale-exactly.md; git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/fetch.mjs; https://artwaste.land/strata/tyndale-exactly/ | The launch log records successful empty-directory runs on 2026-09-07. The N2 check on 2026-10-14 records twelve changed archive digests and a missing engtnt.tsv after fetch refusal. Re-read fetch.mjs: digest mismatch continues before parsing or writing TSV. My additional archive request returned HTTP 403; I do not claim to have re-downloaded all twelve. The recipe is explicitly dated and marked as currently stopped, without claiming changed underlying text or revising the registry.
- CONFIRMED | In June 1997, at the Library of Congress, William Tyndale's biographer announced a number: 83 percent of the King James New Testament is Tyndale exactly. | https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9707/daniell.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-1-1] Read against the fetched source. Source: "David Daniell announced at the Library on June 4 that "83  percent of the King James New Testament is Tyndale exactly." Although  it was known that Tyndale's English translations of the Bible were the basis  of the King James Bible, an exact percentage had not been determined, he  said. [...] Mr. Daniell, who is Tyndale's biographer, made the announcement  at the Library of Congress opening of an exhibition he curated for the British  Library, "Let There Be Light: William Tyndale and the Making of the  English Bible." He attributed the figure to a student at Brigham Young  University who compared the texts using a computer."
- CONFIRMED | The study behind it calls itself, in its own subtitle, an estimation based on sampling, and it sampled eighteen passages. | https://api.openalex.org/works/doi:10.1179/ref_1998_3_1_004  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-1-2] Read against the fetched source. Source: "Previous estimates of William Tyndale's contribution to the 1611 King James Version (or Authorized Version) of the Bible have run from a high of up to 90 per cent (Westcott) to a low of 18 per cent (Butterworth). Here we propose an accurate and appropriate method for determining the respective contribution to the KJV of each version of the early English Bible. Based on 18 sampled passages from those portions of the Bible that Tyndale translated, we conclude that for the New Testament Tyndale's contribution is about 84 per cent of the text, while in the Old Testament about 76 per cent of his words have been retained."
- CONFIRMED | Daniell's is a good example, and the Library of Congress bulletin that reported it puts the strangeness plainly in the very next line. | https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9707/daniell.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-2-2] Read against the fetched source. Source: "David Daniell announced at the Library on June 4 that "83  percent of the King James New Testament is Tyndale exactly." Although  it was known that Tyndale's English translations of the Bible were the basis  of the King James Bible, an exact percentage had not been determined, he  said. [...] Mr. Daniell, who is Tyndale's biographer, made the announcement  at the Library of Congress opening of an exhibition he curated for the British  Library, "Let There Be Light: William Tyndale and the Making of the  English Bible." He attributed the figure to a student at Brigham Young  University who compared the texts using a computer."
- CONFIRMED | David Daniell announced at the Library on June 4 that “83 percent of the King James New Testament is Tyndale exactly.” Although it was known that Tyndale's English translations of the Bible were the basis of the King James Bible, an exact percentage had not been determined, he said. | https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9707/daniell.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-3-1] Read against the fetched source. Source: "David Daniell announced at the Library on June 4 that "83  percent of the King James New Testament is Tyndale exactly." Although  it was known that Tyndale's English translations of the Bible were the basis  of the King James Bible, an exact percentage had not been determined, he  said. [...] Mr. Daniell, who is Tyndale's biographer, made the announcement  at the Library of Congress opening of an exhibition he curated for the British  Library, "Let There Be Light: William Tyndale and the Making of the  English Bible." He attributed the figure to a student at Brigham Young  University who compared the texts using a computer."
- CONFIRMED | Yvonne French, "'Courage and Genius': Tyndale Responsible for Most of Kings James Translation, Says Biographer", Library of Congress Information Bulletin , July 1997. loc.gov , read 2026-09-07. | https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9707/daniell.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-4-1] Read against the fetched source. Source: "'Courage and Genius' (July 1997) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin skip navigation Search The Library of Congress > Information       Bulletin > July 1997 Information Bulletin Home Past Issues About the LCIB Related Resources News from the Library of Congress Events at the Library of Congress Exhibitions at the Library of Congress Wise Guide to loc.gov 'Courage and Genius' Tyndale Responsible for Most of Kings James Translation, Says Biographer By YVONNE FRENCH"
- CONFIRMED | An exact percentage had not been determined, and now one had. | https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9707/daniell.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-5-1] Read against the fetched source. Source: "David Daniell announced at the Library on June 4 that "83  percent of the King James New Testament is Tyndale exactly." Although  it was known that Tyndale's English translations of the Bible were the basis  of the King James Bible, an exact percentage had not been determined, he  said. [...] Mr. Daniell, who is Tyndale's biographer, made the announcement  at the Library of Congress opening of an exhibition he curated for the British  Library, "Let There Be Light: William Tyndale and the Making of the  English Bible." He attributed the figure to a student at Brigham Young  University who compared the texts using a computer."
- CONFIRMED | The study it rests on appeared the following year: Jon Nielson and Royal Skousen, How Much of the King James Bible Is William Tyndale's? | https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1179/ref_1998_3_1_004  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-5-2] Read against the fetched source. Source: "{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,1]],"date-time":"2026-07-01T18:30:33Z","timestamp":1782930633837,"version":"3.54.5"},"reference-count":2,"publisher":"Informa UK Limited","issue":"1","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Reformation"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]},"DOI":"10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,7,7]],"date-time":"2014-07-07T21:55:18Z","timestamp":1404770118000},"page":"49-74","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["How Much of the King James Bible Is William Tyndale's?"],"prefix":"10.1080","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"Jon","family":"Nielson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Royal","family":"Skousen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"301","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"CIT0001","volume-title":"The Literary Lineage of the King James Bible","author":"Butterworth Charles C.","year":"1941"},{"key":"CIT0003","volume-title":"A General View of the History of the English Bible","author":"Westcott Brooke Foss","year":"1905","edition":"3"}],"container-title":["Reformation"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2016,12,17]],"date-time":"2016-12-17T11:10:44Z","timestamp":1481973044000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004"}},"subtitle":["An Estimation Based on Sampling"],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]},"references-count":2,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,21]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004","relation":{},"ISSN":["1357-4175","1752-0738"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1357-4175","type":"print"},{"value":"1752-0738","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]}}}"
- CONFIRMED | An Estimation Based on Sampling , in Reformation volume 3, pages 49 to 74. | https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1179/ref_1998_3_1_004  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-5-3] Read against the fetched source. Source: "{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,1]],"date-time":"2026-07-01T18:30:33Z","timestamp":1782930633837,"version":"3.54.5"},"reference-count":2,"publisher":"Informa UK Limited","issue":"1","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Reformation"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]},"DOI":"10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,7,7]],"date-time":"2014-07-07T21:55:18Z","timestamp":1404770118000},"page":"49-74","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["How Much of the King James Bible Is William Tyndale's?"],"prefix":"10.1080","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"Jon","family":"Nielson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Royal","family":"Skousen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"301","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"CIT0001","volume-title":"The Literary Lineage of the King James Bible","author":"Butterworth Charles C.","year":"1941"},{"key":"CIT0003","volume-title":"A General View of the History of the English Bible","author":"Westcott Brooke Foss","year":"1905","edition":"3"}],"container-title":["Reformation"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2016,12,17]],"date-time":"2016-12-17T11:10:44Z","timestamp":1481973044000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004"}},"subtitle":["An Estimation Based on Sampling"],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]},"references-count":2,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,21]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004","relation":{},"ISSN":["1357-4175","1752-0738"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1357-4175","type":"print"},{"value":"1752-0738","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]}}}"
- CONFIRMED | It notices only what anybody can notice: the half of their title after the question mark is the half that goes missing, and the figures that travel in its place do not agree with each other. | https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1179/ref_1998_3_1_004  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-5-6] Read against the fetched source. Source: "{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,1]],"date-time":"2026-07-01T18:30:33Z","timestamp":1782930633837,"version":"3.54.5"},"reference-count":2,"publisher":"Informa UK Limited","issue":"1","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Reformation"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]},"DOI":"10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,7,7]],"date-time":"2014-07-07T21:55:18Z","timestamp":1404770118000},"page":"49-74","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["How Much of the King James Bible Is William Tyndale's?"],"prefix":"10.1080","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"Jon","family":"Nielson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Royal","family":"Skousen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"301","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"CIT0001","volume-title":"The Literary Lineage of the King James Bible","author":"Butterworth Charles C.","year":"1941"},{"key":"CIT0003","volume-title":"A General View of the History of the English Bible","author":"Westcott Brooke Foss","year":"1905","edition":"3"}],"container-title":["Reformation"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2016,12,17]],"date-time":"2016-12-17T11:10:44Z","timestamp":1481973044000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004"}},"subtitle":["An Estimation Based on Sampling"],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]},"references-count":2,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,21]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004","relation":{},"ISSN":["1357-4175","1752-0738"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1357-4175","type":"print"},{"value":"1752-0738","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]}}}"
- CONFIRMED | Ninety per cent, and one third, in one sentence. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndale_Bible  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-6-1] Read against the fetched source. Source: "It has been suggested that around 90% of the King James Version (or at least of the parts translated by Tyndale) is from Tyndale's works, with as much as one third of the text being word-for-word Tyndale."
- CONFIRMED | Eighty-three per cent, exactly. | https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9707/daniell.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-6-2] Read against the fetched source. Source: "David Daniell announced at the Library on June 4 that "83  percent of the King James New Testament is Tyndale exactly." Although  it was known that Tyndale's English translations of the Bible were the basis  of the King James Bible, an exact percentage had not been determined, he  said. [...] Mr. Daniell, who is Tyndale's biographer, made the announcement  at the Library of Congress opening of an exhibition he curated for the British  Library, "Let There Be Light: William Tyndale and the Making of the  English Bible." He attributed the figure to a student at Brigham Young  University who compared the texts using a computer."
- CONFIRMED | Tyndale wrote In the beginnynge was the worde . | https://studybible.info/Tyndale/John%201  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-9-2] Read against the fetched source. Source: "In the beginnynge was the worde and the worde was with God: and the worde was God. American King James Version American Standard Version Berean Standard Bible English Revised Versi"
- CONFIRMED | The King James prints In the beginning was the Word . | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/JHN01.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-9-3] Read against the fetched source. Source: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and wit"
- CONFIRMED | The pre-registration names the cross-fitted learned figure as the headline, and it says: “If the cross-fitted learned figure and the L2 figure disagree by more than about two percentage points, the two methods do not agree and no single number should be quoted.” Cross-fitted, the learned map gives 70.2 per cent; the hand rules give 73.3 . | git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/PREREGISTRATION.md  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-16-3] Read against the fetched source. Source: "# Pre-registration  Committed before `census.mjs` existed and before any of these criteria had been run against the real texts. Only the self-tests in `usfm.mjs`, `normalize.mjs`, `lcs.mjs` and `learn.mjs`, all of which run on invented three-word fixtures, had been executed at the time of this commit. The git history is the evidence: this file and the four modules land in one commit, and `census.mjs` lands later. ## The question  Of the words in the King James New Testament, how many stand in William Tyndale's New Testament of 1534?  The number in circulation is about 84 per cent, from Jon Nielson and Royal Skousen, "How Much of the King James Bible Is William Tyndale's? An Estimation Based on Sampling", *Reformation* 3 (1998), 49-74. It is, as its own subtitle says, an estimate from a sample: eighteen passages. Nobody has counted the rest. This is the count. ## The measure, fixed in advance  Retention over a pair of texts is      (sum over verses of LCS(tyndale tokens, king james tokens))     ---------------------------------------------------------               (total king james tokens)  where LCS is the longest common subsequence under a stated comparison key. The denominator is every King James word in the New Testament, including the words of verses Tyndale's text does not carry, so an unpaired verse counts against Tyndale rather than being quietly dropped. ## The comparison keys, fixed in advance  - **L0 literal** \u2014 case and punctuation folded, nothing else. - **L1 typographic** \u2014 plus i/j and u/v folded, which undoes Tudor letter-forms   and asserts nothing about spelling. This is the census's hard floor. - **L2 orthographic** \u2014 plus the four named rules in `normalize.mjs`. - **learned** \u2014 plus the map derived by `learn.mjs` under the four criteria   below. ## The learner's acceptance criteria, fixed in advance  A candidate pair is admitted to the spelling map only if all four hold:  1. `MIN_COUNT = 3` occurrences in one-to-one anchor gaps; 2. `MUTUAL_BEST` \u2014 each form is the other's most frequent counterpart; 3. `MAX_REL_DIST = 0.34` character edits relative to the longer form; 4. `REJECT_IF_NATIVE_TO_BOTH` \u2014 refused if both forms occur in both texts in    their own right. ## The controls, fixed in advance  Each is reported whichever way it comes out. - **Cross-fit.** The learned map is fitted on half the books and applied to the   other half, both ways round. The cross-fitted figure is the headline. If it   differs materially from the in-sample figure, the in-sample figure is   contaminated and the difference is the report. - **Chance floor.** The same pipeline with each King James verse paired against   a different Tyndale verse, drawn under a fixed seed. Whatever two English   New Testaments share for reasons of genre, register and the same underlying   Greek shows up here. - **Ceiling.** The pipeline run on two editions of the King James against each   other. It should return very nearly 1, and if it does not the instrument is   not measuring what it claims. - **Independence arm.** The same measurement against the Rheims New Testament   of 1582 in Challoner's revision, made from the Vulgate and explicitly not from   Tyndale. - **Distance arm.** The same measurement against the Bible in Basic English,   written inside a thousand-word vocabulary, which could not reuse Tyndale's   words even where it wanted to. - **Collision census.** For each comparison key, the number of distinct   modern-spelling King James words the key fuses, and their token weight. That   weight is a hard ceiling on how much of the answer could be the normaliser   inventing matches. - **Granularity.** The same measurement with the verse boundaries removed and   each chapter aligned as one stream, because Tyndale's 1534 text predates   English verse numbering and its verse divisions are a later editor's. ## What would falsify the headline  If the cross-fitted learned figure and the L2 figure disagree by more than about two percentage points, the two methods do not agree and no single number should be quoted. If the chance floor is within a few points of the Tyndale figure, the measurement is not detecting descent and says nothing. Both are reported before any conclusion is drawn. "
- CONFIRMED | The Rheims New Testament was made from the Latin Vulgate by Catholic exiles in the 1580s, from a church that had burned Tyndale, and it is as close to an independent English rendering of the same book as the century produced. | https://collections.museumofthebible.org/artifacts/19023-rheims-new-testament-first-edition  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-20-2] Read against the fetched source. Source: "This copy is a first edition Rheims New Testament, printed in Rheims, France, by John Fogny. It was translated into English from the Vulgate in 1582 by English Catholics living in exile in France. The translation was produced in response to popular Protestant English Bibles. Gregory Martin, the primary translator, worked under the supervision of William Allen and Richard Bristow. Martin closely followed the Latin Vulgate in some areas but also consulted the Greek text and earlier English versions. This translation also contained extensive commentary on every chapter. The Rheims New Testament was the first English translation approved for Catholics."
- CONFIRMED | The text used here is the 1582 printing itself, transcribed from the book by the Text Creation Partnership, and not the Douay-Rheims that circulates as public domain, which is Challoner's revision of the 1750s and is known to have drifted toward the King James. | https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05140a.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-20-3] Read against the fetched source. Source: "they are founded, with more or less alteration, on a series of revisions undertaken by Bishop Challoner in 1749-52. His object was to meet the practical want felt by the Catholics of his day of a Bible moderate in size and price, in readable English, and with notes more suitable to the time. He brought out three editions of the New Testament , in 1749, 1750, and 1752 respectively, and one of the Old Testament in 1750. The changes introduced by him were so considerable that, according to Cardinal Newman , they "almost amounted to a new translation". So also, Cardinal Wiseman wrote, "To call it any longer the Douay or Rheimish Version is an abuse of terms. It has been altered and modified until scarcely any sense remains as it was originally published". In nearly every case Challoner's changes took the form of approximating to the Authorized Version , though his three editions of the New Testament differ from one another in numerous passages."
- CONFIRMED | Ronald Mansbridge, writing in the Tyndale Society Journal , states his rule in a single sentence, names his nine chapters, and prints his counts for each one. | https://www.tyndale.org/journals/tsj03/mansbridge.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-24-2] Read against the fetched source. Source: "I followed the simple procedure of counting the total number of     words in nine representative chapters first in Geneva, then in     King James, and then counting how many of these words were     taken from Tyndale's translation. [...] Genesis 13 452 358 457 389 81.4 85.1 Deuteronomy 8 557 454 554 438 81.5 79.1 1 Samuel 8 519 431 524 425 81.1 81.1 Matthew 3 395 337 385 317 85.3 82.3 Acts 25,1-15 373 301 358 302 80.7 84.3 Romans 13 361 294 354 256 81.4 72.3 1 Corinthians 5 316 268 312 248 84.8 79.5 James 4 374 294 362 289 78.6 79.8 Revelation 20 479 444 469 434 92.7 92.5 Total 3836 3191 3646 2975 83.4 81.6"
- CONFIRMED | He died in 1536. | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42514/42514-h/42514-h.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-29-1] Read against the fetched source. Source: "On the sixth day of October, 1536, he was led to the stake. He was there strangled and his body burnt."
- CONFIRMED | English verse numbering arrives with Whittingham in 1557 and the Geneva Bible in 1560, so every verse number on a Tyndale text was put there by a later editor, and where that editor's division disagrees with the King James's, a verse-level alignment matches the wrong sentences and scores near zero on material that is in fact retained. | https://gruber.lstc.edu/english_bibles/geneva.php  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-29-2] Read against the fetched source. Source: "Gruber 166 Whittingham English  New Testament. Printed by Conrad Badius MDLVII This X of June. (June 10, 1557) This copy of the New Testament lacks title page and several preliminary leaves. The translator was  William Whittingham (1524-1579), who had sought refuge in Geneva after the accession of Queen Mary on  July 19, 1553. Mary died in 1558, after burning almost 300 religious dissenters  at the stake. Whittingham also played a major role in translating the Geneva  Bible. Verse numbers were added in this translation for the first time. The text is in Roman type, not black letter, and verse numbers are added. The Greek texts used were Estienne's of 1551 and Beza's of 1556. The English text most relied upon was Tyndale, from the edition of Richard Jugge in 1552. The title page reads as follows: The Newe Testament of our Lord Iesus Christ. Conferred diligently with the Greke, and best approued translations. With the arguments, aswel before the chapters, as for euery Boke & Epistle, also diuersities of readings, and moste proffitable annotations of all harde places: whereunto is added a copious table. Gruber 24a Gruber 24 The Bible and Holy Scriptures.... At Geneva. Printed by Rouland Hall, MDLX. Translated by exiles from England at Geneva during the reign of Queen Mary. The New Testament is credited to William Whittingham, who had married Calvin's wife's s [...] The first edition was published in April or May 1560 (Elizabeth had become queen on November 17, 1558). A new edition appeared every year between 1560 and 1616 although no copy was printed in England before 1575, when Archbishop Parker died. He had, with others, created the Bishops' Bible. The Geneva Bible was the Bible of William Shakespeare (from 1596 on), John Bunyan, Cromwell's army, the Puritan pilgrims to the New World, and even of King James himself. Firsts in the Geneva Bible: First complete English Bible with numbered verses. Verses had been added to the Greek text of the New Testament by Estienne in        1551. English words not represented in the original        text were"
- CONFIRMED | The last row of the survival table is a modern revision descended from the American Standard Version, published in 2000. | https://worldenglish.bible/; https://www.ccel.org/a/anonymous/web/htm/index.htm; https://ebible.org/engwebp/copyright.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-31-1] The project describes its ASV basis. A primary project page preserved at CCEL says "This page was last updated 21 October 2000" and describes translation/review in progress. Thus an available 2000 text is supported, but it was a draft, not the current "2020 stable text edition". The input homepage excerpt alone did not establish the 2000 date.
- CONFIRMED | The whole census rests on one file, and its publisher's copyright page says only The Tyndale New Testament (1534) , Public Domain . | https://ebible.org/engtnt/copyright.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-32-1] Read against the fetched source. Source: "Tyndale New Testament ^ < > Go! Tyndale New Testament The Tyndale New Testament (1534) Public Domain Language: English Dialect: archaic British Translation by: William Tyndale 2020-12-20 HTML generated with Haiola by eBible.org 13 Oct 2026 from source files dated 12 Dec 2025 ^ < > Public Domain"
- CONFIRMED | It names no editor, no base edition and no digitiser. | https://ebible.org/engtnt/copyright.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-32-2] Read against the fetched source. Source: "Tyndale New Testament ^ < > Go! Tyndale New Testament The Tyndale New Testament (1534) Public Domain Language: English Dialect: archaic British Translation by: William Tyndale 2020-12-20 HTML generated with Haiola by eBible.org 13 Oct 2026 from source files dated 12 Dec 2025 ^ < > Public Domain"
- CONFIRMED | The 1582 Rheims is a genuinely separate English rendering, but its translators knew the Protestant Bibles and argued with them, and both texts descend from a shared Latin and Greek tradition, so some of the 55.7 per cent is common ancestry rather than independence. | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/textcreationpartnership/A16049/master/A16049.xml  | Codex N2 re-read: [page-41-2] Read against the fetched source. Source: "The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ, translated faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages; vvith arguments of bookes and chapters, annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the corruptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the controversies in religion, of these daies: in the English College of Rhemes Bible. N.T. English. Douai. 1582 Approx. 3414 KB of XML-encoded text transcrib"
- CONFIRMED | from a church that had burned Tyndale | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42514/42514-h/42514-h.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [rheims-burned] Read against the fetched source. Source: "On the sixth day of October, 1536, he was led to the stake. He was there strangled and his body burnt."
- CONFIRMED | The text used here is the 1582 printing itself, transcribed from the book by the Text Creation Partnership | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/textcreationpartnership/A16049/master/A16049.xml  | Codex N2 re-read: [tcp-printing] Read against the fetched source. Source: "Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 2646) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1569:1) The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ, translated faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages; vvith arguments of bookes and chapters, annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the corruptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the controversies in religion, of these daies: in the English College of Rhemes Bible. N.T. English. Douai. Martin, Gregory, d. 1582. [28], 745, [27] p. By Iohn Fogny, Printed at Rhemes : 1582. The Douai version, translated from the Vulgate chiefly by Gregory Martin. At foot of title: Cum priuilegio. Includes index. Reproduction of the original in the Eton College. Library."
- CONFIRMED | Coverdale 1535, Matthew 1537, the Great Bible 1539 and the Bishops' Bible 1568 all stand between Tyndale and Geneva | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42514/42514-h/42514-h.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [translations-intermediate] Read against the fetched source. Source: "Just twelve months before the martyrdom of Tyndale, the first printed edition of the entire Scriptures in the English language was issued from the press of Jacob van Meteren, at Antwerp. The privilege and honour of accomplishing this memorable work belongs to Miles Coverdale, at that time a poor scholar, dependent upon the patronage of Thomas Cromwell and others, though subsequently, for a short period in the reign of Edward VI., Bishop of Exeter. The first edition of his Bible was “prynted in the year of our Lord MDXXXV., and fynished the fourthe day of October.” Coverdale had been moved to the undertaking by his own deep sense of the needs of his country, and by the earnest appeals addressed to him by others. Through his modesty of disposition, and his lowly estimate of his own abilities [...] In the same year, 1537, and probably in the earlier part of it, there was issued in London another Bible, which also bore upon its title-page the inscription, “Set forth with the kinge’s most gracyous lycence.” [15] This Bible, commonly known as Matthew’s Bible, was, it is now generally believed, prepared for the press by John Rogers, who suffered martyrdom at Smithfield, under the Marian persecution. In the New Testament and Pentateuch he agrees substantially with Tyndale’s version. Of the other books of the Old Testament, a portion is obviously taken from Coverdale, the remaining part, Joshua to Chronicles, has been thought with good reason to be the work of Tyndale. It is known that Tyndale, after the publication of his Pentateuch, continued to labour at the translation of the Old Testament. In a letter written during his imprisonment he prays to be allowed to have his Hebrew Bible, a [...] The printing of this new Bible was completed in April, 1539, and from the circumstance that it was printed in the largest folio then used, 15 inches by 9, it was, and is, commonly described as the Great Bible. In the title-page it is declared to be “truly translated, after the veryte of the Hebrue a [...] The completed work was presented to Elizabeth within a few weeks of the completion of the tenth year of her reign, October 5th, 1568. The rules laid down by Parker for the guidance of his colleagues were these: 1. “To follow the common English translation used in the churches, and not to recede from"
- CONFIRMED | Previous estimates of William Tyndale's contribution to the 1611 King James Version (or Authorized Version) of the Bible have run from a high of up to 90 per cent (Westcott) to a low of 18 per cent (Butterworth). Here we propose an accurate and appropriate method for determining the respective contribution to the KJV of each version of the early English Bible. Based on 18 sampled passages from those portions of the Bible that Tyndale translated, we conclude that for the New Testament Tyndale's contribution is about 84 per cent of the text, while in the Old Testament about 76 per cent of his words have been retained. | https://api.openalex.org/works/doi:10.1179/ref_1998_3_1_004  | Codex N2 re-read: [circulation-nielson-skousen-1998] Read against the fetched source. Source: "Previous estimates of William Tyndale's contribution to the 1611 King James Version (or Authorized Version) of the Bible have run from a high of up to 90 per cent (Westcott) to a low of 18 per cent (Butterworth). Here we propose an accurate and appropriate method for determining the respective contribution to the KJV of each version of the early English Bible. Based on 18 sampled passages from those portions of the Bible that Tyndale translated, we conclude that for the New Testament Tyndale's contribution is about 84 per cent of the text, while in the Old Testament about 76 per cent of his words have been retained."
- CONFIRMED | Jon Nielson and Royal Skousen, from the abstract of the study the figure comes from. Reformation, volume 3, issue 1 (1998), 49-74. DOI 10.1179/ref_1998_3_1_004, abstract via OpenAlex. Counts: an estimate from eighteen sampled passages. | https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1179/ref_1998_3_1_004  | Codex N2 re-read: [citation-nielson-skousen-1998] Read against the fetched source. Source: "{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,1]],"date-time":"2026-07-01T18:30:33Z","timestamp":1782930633837,"version":"3.54.5"},"reference-count":2,"publisher":"Informa UK Limited","issue":"1","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Reformation"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]},"DOI":"10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,7,7]],"date-time":"2014-07-07T21:55:18Z","timestamp":1404770118000},"page":"49-74","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["How Much of the King James Bible Is William Tyndale's?"],"prefix":"10.1080","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"Jon","family":"Nielson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Royal","family":"Skousen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"301","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"CIT0001","volume-title":"The Literary Lineage of the King James Bible","author":"Butterworth Charles C.","year":"1941"},{"key":"CIT0003","volume-title":"A General View of the History of the English Bible","author":"Westcott Brooke Foss","year":"1905","edition":"3"}],"container-title":["Reformation"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2016,12,17]],"date-time":"2016-12-17T11:10:44Z","timestamp":1481973044000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004"}},"subtitle":["An Estimation Based on Sampling"],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]},"references-count":2,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,21]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004","relation":{},"ISSN":["1357-4175","1752-0738"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1357-4175","type":"print"},{"value":"1752-0738","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]}}}"
- CONFIRMED | 83 percent of the King James New Testament is Tyndale exactly. | https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9707/daniell.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [circulation-daniell-loc-1997] Read against the fetched source. Source: "David Daniell announced at the Library on June 4 that "83  percent of the King James New Testament is Tyndale exactly." Although  it was known that Tyndale's English translations of the Bible were the basis  of the King James Bible, an exact percentage had not been determined, he  said."
- CONFIRMED | David Daniell, Tyndale's biographer, speaking at the Library of Congress on 4 June 1997. Yvonne French, "'Courage and Genius': Tyndale Responsible for Most of Kings James Translation, Says Biographer", Library of Congress Information Bulletin, July 1997. Counts: word for word, exactly. | https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9707/daniell.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [citation-daniell-loc-1997] Read against the fetched source. Source: "David Daniell announced at the Library on June 4 that "83  percent of the King James New Testament is Tyndale exactly." Although  it was known that Tyndale's English translations of the Bible were the basis  of the King James Bible, an exact percentage had not been determined, he  said."
- CONFIRMED | It has been suggested that around 90% of the King James Version (or at least of the parts translated by Tyndale) is from Tyndale's works, with as much as one third of the text being word-for-word Tyndale. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndale_Bible  | Codex N2 re-read: [circulation-wikipedia-tyndale-bible] Read against the fetched source. Source: "It has been suggested that around 90% of the King James Version (or at least of the parts translated by Tyndale) is from Tyndale's works, with as much as one third of the text being word-for-word Tyndale."
- CONFIRMED | Wikipedia, "Tyndale Bible". Wikipedia, "Tyndale Bible", retrieved 2026-09-07. Counts: one third, word for word. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndale_Bible  | Codex N2 re-read: [citation-wikipedia-tyndale-bible] Read against the fetched source. Source: "It has been suggested that around 90% of the King James Version (or at least of the parts translated by Tyndale) is from Tyndale's works, with as much as one third of the text being word-for-word Tyndale."
- CONFIRMED | “I followed the simple procedure of counting the total number of words in nine representative chapters first in Geneva, then in King James, and then counting how many of these words were taken from Tyndale's translation.” Ronald Mansbridge, "The Percentage of Words in the Geneva and King James Versions taken from Tyndale's translation", Tyndale Society Journal 3. Read 2026-09-07. His overall figure for the King James is 81.6 per cent, with a margin of possible error of between 2 and 3 per cent. His three Old Testament chapters (Genesis 13, Deuteronomy 8, 1 Samuel 8) are outside this census. | https://www.tyndale.org/journals/tsj03/mansbridge.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [mansbridge-method-repeat] Read against the fetched source. Source: "I followed the simple procedure of counting the total number of     words in nine representative chapters first in Geneva, then in     King James, and then counting how many of these words were     taken from Tyndale's translation."
- CONFIRMED | Ronald Mansbridge, "The Percentage of Words in the Geneva and King James Versions taken from Tyndale's translation", Tyndale Society Journal 3. Read 2026-09-07. His overall figure for the King James is 81.6 per cent, with a margin of possible error of between 2 and 3 per cent. His three Old Testament chapters (Genesis 13, Deuteronomy 8, 1 Samuel 8) are outside this census. | https://www.tyndale.org/journals/tsj03/mansbridge.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [mansbridge-citation-repeat] Read against the fetched source. Source: "Genesis 13 452 358 457 389 81.4 85.1 Deuteronomy 8 557 454 554 438 81.5 79.1 1 Samuel 8 519 431 524 425 81.1 81.1 Matthew 3 395 337 385 317 85.3 82.3 Acts 25,1-15 373 301 358 302 80.7 84.3 Romans 13 361 294 354 256 81.4 72.3 1 Corinthians 5 316 268 312 248 84.8 79.5 James 4 374 294 362 289 78.6 79.8 Revelation 20 479 444 469 434 92.7 92.5 Total 3836 3191 3646 2975 83.4 81.6 It will be seen that in these nine chapters more than 83% of     the words in the Geneva Version were taken direct from Tyndale,     and more than 81% of the words in the King James Version. I     believe this sample is statistically valid for the whole New     Testament and those books of the Old Testament that Tyndale     translated, within a margin of possible error of between 2 and     3 per cent."
- CONFIRMED | In 1534 these were single letters with positional forms. | https://www.folger.edu/blogs/collation/uv-ij-and-transcribing-other-early-modern-textual-oddities/  | Codex N2 re-read: [tudor-letterforms] Read against the fetched source. Source: "But the rules for long-s are, as with u/v and i/j, follow the letter’s placement in the word: short-s at the end of a word, long-s at the beginning and in the middle. (Transcriptions that rely on OCR to recognize characters mix these letters up to sometimes hilarious, and confusing, results .)"
- CONFIRMED | The King James Bible's New Testament is often said to be about 83 per cent William Tyndale's, word for word. | https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9707/daniell.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [metadata-2-1] Read against the fetched source. Source: "David Daniell announced at the Library on June 4 that "83  percent of the King James New Testament is Tyndale exactly." Although  it was known that Tyndale's English translations of the Bible were the basis  of the King James Bible, an exact percentage had not been determined, he  said. [...] Mr. Daniell, who is Tyndale's biographer, made the announcement  at the Library of Congress opening of an exhibition he curated for the British  Library, "Let There Be Light: William Tyndale and the Making of the  English Bible." He attributed the figure to a student at Brigham Young  University who compared the texts using a computer."
- CONFIRMED | That figure came from a sample of eighteen passages; counting every word of all 27 books gives between 70 and 73 per cent. | https://api.openalex.org/works/doi:10.1179/ref_1998_3_1_004  | Codex N2 re-read: [metadata-2-2] Read against the fetched source. Source: "Previous estimates of William Tyndale's contribution to the 1611 King James Version (or Authorized Version) of the Bible have run from a high of up to 90 per cent (Westcott) to a low of 18 per cent (Butterworth). Here we propose an accurate and appropriate method for determining the respective contribution to the KJV of each version of the early English Bible. Based on 18 sampled passages from those portions of the Bible that Tyndale translated, we conclude that for the New Testament Tyndale's contribution is about 84 per cent of the text, while in the Old Testament about 76 per cent of his words have been retained."
- CONFIRMED | The King James New Testament is said to be about 83 per cent Tyndale, word for word. | https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9707/daniell.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [metadata-4-1] Read against the fetched source. Source: "David Daniell announced at the Library on June 4 that "83  percent of the King James New Testament is Tyndale exactly." Although  it was known that Tyndale's English translations of the Bible were the basis  of the King James Bible, an exact percentage had not been determined, he  said. [...] Mr. Daniell, who is Tyndale's biographer, made the announcement  at the Library of Congress opening of an exhibition he curated for the British  Library, "Let There Be Light: William Tyndale and the Making of the  English Bible." He attributed the figure to a student at Brigham Young  University who compared the texts using a computer."
- CONFIRMED | That came from eighteen sampled passages. | https://api.openalex.org/works/doi:10.1179/ref_1998_3_1_004  | Codex N2 re-read: [metadata-4-2] Read against the fetched source. Source: "Previous estimates of William Tyndale's contribution to the 1611 King James Version (or Authorized Version) of the Bible have run from a high of up to 90 per cent (Westcott) to a low of 18 per cent (Butterworth). Here we propose an accurate and appropriate method for determining the respective contribution to the KJV of each version of the early English Bible. Based on 18 sampled passages from those portions of the Bible that Tyndale translated, we conclude that for the New Testament Tyndale's contribution is about 84 per cent of the text, while in the Old Testament about 76 per cent of his words have been retained."
- CONFIRMED | There, one Hebrew word, חֶסֶד, is followed into the King James and found shattered across about a dozen English ones, a loss counted term by term. | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/the-word-for-both/index.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [metadata-5-2] Read the named related layer at f5e5f84f34. Its displayed subject, witnesses and method support this description; the cross-layer comparison is an interpretation rather than a new measurement.
- CONFIRMED | That piece lays ten public-domain English hands side by side on one verse and shows the reader that the versions are not independent witnesses. | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/in-the-beginning-of/index.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [metadata-6-1] Read the named related layer at f5e5f84f34. Its displayed subject, witnesses and method support this description; the cross-layer comparison is an interpretation rather than a new measurement.
- CONFIRMED | There the rescues (a rope, a gate, an Aramaic pun) accumulate around a translation that never erred. | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/the-eye-of-the-needle/index.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [metadata-7-2] Read the named related layer at f5e5f84f34. Its displayed subject, witnesses and method support this description; the cross-layer comparison is an interpretation rather than a new measurement.
- CONFIRMED | There the problem was five witnesses to one speech and which words Lincoln actually said. | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/what-lincoln-said/index.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [metadata-9-2] Read the named related layer at f5e5f84f34. Its displayed subject, witnesses and method support this description; the cross-layer comparison is an interpretation rather than a new measurement.
- CONFIRMED | That layer keeps this site's own corrections in public. | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/the-record-that-corrects-itself/index.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [metadata-10-2] Read the named related layer at f5e5f84f34. Its displayed subject, witnesses and method support this description; the cross-layer comparison is an interpretation rather than a new measurement.
- CONFIRMED | That figure came from eighteen sampled passages. | https://api.openalex.org/works/doi:10.1179/ref_1998_3_1_004  | Codex N2 re-read: [metadata-11-2] Read against the fetched source. Source: "Previous estimates of William Tyndale's contribution to the 1611 King James Version (or Authorized Version) of the Bible have run from a high of up to 90 per cent (Westcott) to a low of 18 per cent (Butterworth). Here we propose an accurate and appropriate method for determining the respective contribution to the KJV of each version of the early English Bible. Based on 18 sampled passages from those portions of the Bible that Tyndale translated, we conclude that for the New Testament Tyndale's contribution is about 84 per cent of the text, while in the Old Testament about 76 per cent of his words have been retained."
- CONFIRMED | A famous figure says the King James New Testament is 83 per cent Tyndale, exactly. | https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9707/daniell.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [metadata-12-1] Read against the fetched source. Source: "David Daniell announced at the Library on June 4 that "83  percent of the King James New Testament is Tyndale exactly." Although  it was known that Tyndale's English translations of the Bible were the basis  of the King James Bible, an exact percentage had not been determined, he  said. [...] Mr. Daniell, who is Tyndale's biographer, made the announcement  at the Library of Congress opening of an exhibition he curated for the British  Library, "Let There Be Light: William Tyndale and the Making of the  English Bible." He attributed the figure to a student at Brigham Young  University who compared the texts using a computer."
- CONFIRMED | It came from eighteen passages. | https://api.openalex.org/works/doi:10.1179/ref_1998_3_1_004  | Codex N2 re-read: [metadata-12-2] Read against the fetched source. Source: "Previous estimates of William Tyndale's contribution to the 1611 King James Version (or Authorized Version) of the Bible have run from a high of up to 90 per cent (Westcott) to a low of 18 per cent (Butterworth). Here we propose an accurate and appropriate method for determining the respective contribution to the KJV of each version of the early English Bible. Based on 18 sampled passages from those portions of the Bible that Tyndale translated, we conclude that for the New Testament Tyndale's contribution is about 84 per cent of the text, while in the Old Testament about 76 per cent of his words have been retained."
- CONFIRMED | King James Version + Apocrypha 1611 in the line | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/copyright.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [witness-eng-kjv] Read against the fetched source. Source: "King James Version + Apocrypha ^ < > Go! King James Version + Apocrypha The King James Version or Authorized Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769, with Apocrypha/Deuterocanon Public Domain Language: English Dialect: archaic British Letters patent issued by King James with no expiration date means that to print this translation in the United Kingdom or import printed copies into the UK, you need permission. Currently, the Cambridge University Press, the Oxford University Press, and Collins have the exclusive right to print this Bible translation in the UK. This royal decree has no effect outside of the UK, where this work is firmly in the Public Domain. Please see http://www.cambridge.org/about-us/who-we-are/queens-printers-patent and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version#Copyright_status for more information. This free text of the King James Version of the Holy Bible is brought to you courtesy of the Crosswire Bible Society and eBible.org . 2026-09-26 HTML generated with Haiola by eBible.org 13 Oct 2026 from source files dated 26 Sep 2026 ^ < > You may copy the King James Version of the Holy Bible freely. If you find a typo that is not just an archaic spelling, please report it . Public Domain"
- CONFIRMED | King James (Authorized) Version 1611 in the line | https://ebible.org/eng-kjv2006/copyright.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [witness-eng-kjv2006] Read against the fetched source. Source: "King James (Authorized) Version ^ < > Go! King James (Authorized) Version The King James Version or Authorized Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769, protocanon only, with Strong's numbers added. Public Domain Language: English Dialect: archaic British Letters patent issued by King James with no expiration date means that to print this translation in the United Kingdom or import printed copies into the UK, you need permission. Currently, the Cambridge University Press, the Oxford University Press, and Collins have the exclusive right to print this Bible translation in the UK. This royal decree has no effect outside of the UK, where this work is firmly in the Public Domain. Please see http://www.cambridge.org/about-us/who-we-are/queens-printers-patent and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version#Copyright_status for more information. This free text of the King James Version of the Holy Bible is brought to you courtesy of the Crosswire Bible Society and eBible.org . 2026-09-26 HTML generated with Haiola by eBible.org 13 Oct 2026 from source files dated 26 Sep 2026 ^ < > You may copy the King James Version of the Holy Bible freely. If you find a typo that is not just an archaic spelling, please report it . Public Domain"
- CONFIRMED | KJV Cambridge Paragraph Bible 1873 in the line | https://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/16881/index/9780521616881_index.pdf; https://ebible.org/engkjvcpb/copyright.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [witness-engkjvcpb] The eBible page identifies the KJV Cambridge Paragraph text. Cambridge's own index lists "1873 Cambridge Paragraph Bible (Scrivener)". The source record's copyright excerpt alone did not establish the bibliographic year.
- CONFIRMED | Geneva Bible 1599 1599 in the line | https://ebible.org/enggnv/copyright.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [witness-enggnv] Read against the fetched source. Source: "Geneva Bible 1599 ^ < > Go! Geneva Bible 1599 The Geneva Bible in Old English of 1599 Public Domain Language: English Dialect: Old This digital copy is freely available world-wide, with no copyright restrictions, courtesy of eBible.org and many others. Note that the spelling used is the original spelling, which is not modern English. 2024-03-16 HTML generated with Haiola by eBible.org 13 Oct 2026 from source files dated 12 Dec 2025 ^ < > Public Domain"
- CONFIRMED | Douay-Rheims 1899 1582 not from Tyndale | https://ebible.org/engDRA/copyright.htm; https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05140a.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [witness-engDRA] The current text is titled Douay-Rheims 1899; 1582 is its translation origin, not the edition date. New Advent confirms the later Challoner revision and approximation to the Authorized Version. Read "not from Tyndale" as the original translation line, subject to the page's express later-revision caveat, not as absence of all KJV influence.
- CONFIRMED | Revised Version with Apocrypha (1895) 1881 in the line | https://ebible.org/eng-rv/copyright.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [witness-eng-rv] Read against the fetched source. Source: "Revised Version with Apocrypha (1895) ^ < > Go! Revised Version with Apocrypha (1895) The Revised Version of the Holy Bible (1895) with Apocrypha Public Domain Language: English Dialect: archaic British This work is in the Public Domain. You may copy and use it freely. 2026-10-13 HTML generated with Haiola by eBible.org 13 Oct 2026 from source files dated 13 Oct 2026 ^ < > The Revised Version of the Holy Bible is in the Public Domain. Copy freely. If you find a typo, please report it. Help keep free Bibles online! Support the missionary who runs this site. Public Domain"
- CONFIRMED | American Standard Version (1901) 1901 in the line | https://ebible.org/eng-asv/copyright.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [witness-eng-asv] Read against the fetched source. Source: "American Standard Version (1901) ^ < > Go! American Standard Version (1901) The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. Public Domain Language: English Dialect: Archaic American This public domain Bible translation is brought to you courtesy of eBible.org. If you would like to make a donation to help keep free Bible access like this going, please visit https://eBible.org/give.php . 2026-10-13 HTML generated with Haiola by eBible.org 13 Oct 2026 from source files dated 13 Oct 2026 ^ < > The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible is in the Public Domain. Copy freely. If you find a typo, please report it. Help keep free Bibles online! Support the missionary who runs this site. Public Domain"
- CONFIRMED | Noah Webster Bible (1833) 1833 in the line | https://ebible.org/engwebster/copyright.htm; https://ebible.org/Scriptures/copyright.php  | Codex N2 re-read: [witness-engwebster] The copyright page identifies Noah Webster's Bible; the publisher registry supplies the 1833 edition title. Its KJV-revision origin agrees with the historical account read in Gutenberg.
- CONFIRMED | Young's Literal Translation (1898) 1898 not from Tyndale | https://www.ccel.org/bible/ylt/ylt.htm; https://ebible.org/engylt/copyright.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [witness-engylt] The primary preface labels the third edition with the publisher note of 1898 and describes translation from the original Hebrew and Greek. That supports the edition date and its separate translation origin, rather than proving no shared phrasing.
- CONFIRMED | World English Bible 2000 in the line | https://worldenglish.bible/; https://www.ccel.org/a/anonymous/web/htm/index.htm; https://ebible.org/engwebp/copyright.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [witness-engwebp] The project describes its ASV basis. A primary project page preserved at CCEL says "This page was last updated 21 October 2000" and describes translation/review in progress. Thus an available 2000 text is supported, but it was a draft, not the current "2020 stable text edition". The input homepage excerpt alone did not establish the 2000 date.
- CONFIRMED | Bible in Basic English (1949) 1949 restricted vocabulary | https://pcsba.org/resources/publications/Books/Bible/eng/bbe.pdf; https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Bible_in_Basic_English.html?id=kbshAAAAMAAJ  | Codex N2 re-read: [witness-engBBE] The preface establishes the restricted vocabulary; the bibliographic record identifies a Cambridge 1949 edition. The eBible copyright page instead discusses a 1965 printing, so that excerpt alone does not establish the table's 1949 year.
- CONFIRMED | The New Testament of Jesus Christ (Rheims, 1582) 1582 not from Tyndale | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/textcreationpartnership/A16049/master/A16049.xml  | Codex N2 re-read: [witness-rheims1582] Read against the fetched source. Source: "The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ, translated faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages; vvith arguments of bookes and chapters, annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the corruptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the controversies in religion, of these daies: in the English College of Rhemes Bible. N.T. English. Douai. 1582 Approx. 3414 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 426 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2006-06 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A16049 STC 2884 ESTC S102491 99838273 99838273 2646 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the 	       work described above is co-owned by the institutions 	       providing financial support to the Early English Books 	       Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is 	       available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative 	       Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, 	       modified, distributed and performed, even for 	       commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A16049) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 2646) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1569:1) The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ, translated faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages; vvith arguments of bookes and chapters, annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the corruptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the controversies in religion, of these daies: in the English College of Rhemes Bible. N.T. English. Douai. Martin, Gregory, d. 1582. [28], 745, [27] p. By Iohn Fogny, Printed at Rhemes : 1582. The Douai version, translated from the Vulgate chiefly by Gregory Martin. At foot of title: Cum priuilegio. Includes index. Reproduction of the original in the Eton College. Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl,       TEI @ Oxford. EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). The general aim of EEBO-TCP is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic English-language title published between 1473 and 17"
- CONFIRMED | a real Tudor merger like then and than | https://varieng.helsinki.fi/series/volumes/04/chapter7_5.html  | Codex N2 re-read: [map-then-than] Read against the fetched source. Source: "Originally, the adverb of time then and the connective particle than were the same word. In the literary language, than and then had become clearly differentiated in meaning and spelling by the 17th century."
- CONFIRMED | The Tyndale New Testament (1534) | https://ebible.org/engtnt/copyright.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [publisher-title-quote] Read against the fetched source. Source: "Tyndale New Testament ^ < > Go! Tyndale New Testament The Tyndale New Testament (1534) Public Domain Language: English Dialect: archaic British Translation by: William Tyndale 2020-12-20 HTML generated with Haiola by eBible.org 13 Oct 2026 from source files dated 12 Dec 2025 ^ < > Public Domain"
- CONFIRMED | An Estimation Based on Sampling | https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1179/ref_1998_3_1_004  | Codex N2 re-read: [subtitle-quote] Read against the fetched source. Source: "{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,1]],"date-time":"2026-07-01T18:30:33Z","timestamp":1782930633837,"version":"3.54.5"},"reference-count":2,"publisher":"Informa UK Limited","issue":"1","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Reformation"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]},"DOI":"10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,7,7]],"date-time":"2014-07-07T21:55:18Z","timestamp":1404770118000},"page":"49-74","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["How Much of the King James Bible Is William Tyndale's?"],"prefix":"10.1080","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"Jon","family":"Nielson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Royal","family":"Skousen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"301","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"CIT0001","volume-title":"The Literary Lineage of the King James Bible","author":"Butterworth Charles C.","year":"1941"},{"key":"CIT0003","volume-title":"A General View of the History of the English Bible","author":"Westcott Brooke Foss","year":"1905","edition":"3"}],"container-title":["Reformation"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2016,12,17]],"date-time":"2016-12-17T11:10:44Z","timestamp":1481973044000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004"}},"subtitle":["An Estimation Based on Sampling"],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]},"references-count":2,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,4,21]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1179\/ref_1998_3_1_004","relation":{},"ISSN":["1357-4175","1752-0738"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1357-4175","type":"print"},{"value":"1752-0738","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[1998,1]]}}}"
- CONFIRMED | archive.org holds a scan of a 1534 printing with a Tesseract pass over the blackletter. | https://archive.org/metadata/1534-tyndale-nt  | Codex N2 re-read: [archive-scan-provenance] Read against the fetched source. Source: ""date":"1534" [...] "title":"1534 Tyndale New Testament" [...] "ocr":"tesseract 5.3.0-6-g76ae" [...] "ocr_detected_script":"Fraktur""
- CONFIRMED | Public Domain | https://ebible.org/engtnt/copyright.htm  | Codex N2 re-read: [publisher-public-domain-quote] Read against the fetched source. Source: "Tyndale New Testament ^ < > Go! Tyndale New Testament The Tyndale New Testament (1534) Public Domain Language: English Dialect: archaic British Translation by: William Tyndale 2020-12-20 HTML generated with Haiola by eBible.org 13 Oct 2026 from source files dated 12 Dec 2025 ^ < > Public Domain"
- CONFIRMED | (added) That is the longest common subsequence | git show f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/lcs.mjs; git show f5e5f84f34:research/what-lincoln-said/align.mjs  | Codex N2 re-read: [added-lcs] The described maximum noncrossing one-to-one matching is the longest common subsequence. The pinned exact dynamic program and 13 passing LCS controls agree with that definition. Source-record search for this exact clause returned zero; positive control "For each verse the King James carries" returned one entry.

## Findings

- [declined] X1 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The note distinguishes textual influence from word-for-word agreement and a whole-Bible scope from the New Testament. Those distinctions support a MINOR qualification of the page's comparison, rather than an established contradiction among the quoted sources. Tier C: list. Any eventual qualification belongs in the surrounding prose; preserve the quotations themselves.
- [fixed] X2: Reproduced with the pinned functions: L2(good) = L2(god) = god. A target-only vocabulary containing good has collision share 0, while god/good matches 1/1. Including both spellings gives two fused types. Counts are retained; the ceiling inference is removed.
- [declined] X3 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. I reread f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/normalize.mjs:101 and learn.mjs:119-122. L2 finishes with "return L1(out) \u007c\u007c L1(w);" and the learned key with "return (w) => L1(map.get(w) \u007c\u007c w);". Both share the typographic folding, although their additional spelling rules differ. This is a MINOR overstatement of the independence of the page's two checking methods. Tier C: list; the computed retention values are not contradicted by this finding.
- [fixed] X4: learn.mjs sorts accepted pairs by attestation count and renderMap preserves that order. The first three counts are 331, 243, 229 for lorde, saye, thinges. The caption now says most attested first.
- [fixed] X6: renderControls contains five distinct text pairs and one shuffled KJV/Tyndale measurement. The caption now names five pairs plus the shuffled control.
- [fixed] X7: Re-read the N1 introductory Note excerpt for the vocabulary constraint. The PDF fetch was blocked here, but eBible BBE Genesis 1:3 independently prints Let there be light. Restricted vocabulary permits shared phrases; no actual borrowing is inferred.
- [declined] X9 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- [declined] X10 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. I reread f5e5f84f34:verify-tyndale-exactly.mjs, especially lines 316-338 and its other uses of page, and public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:216,551-554. The verifier selects "data-n" bindings and selected quoted strings; it contains no assertion of the literal film rate "1,883.9 a second". This independently supports the note's coverage gap without rerunning its mutation experiment. Re-level to MINOR under the task's explicit rule for overstatements of the page's own checking, including universal checking claims. Tier C: list. The observed coverage limitation remains recorded; this is not a rejection or a downgrade for convenience.
- [fixed] X11: Independently rebuilt all 7,957 verse counts from the pinned texts and map: 130,472/180,405 overall. The eighteen distinct block indices recorded in fixer-probes.json yield 6,400/7,705 = 83.062946%. They were deliberately selected, not drawn randomly. The finite simulation and its zero recorded successes remain unchanged.
- [declined] X12 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The supplied source excerpt describes the Joshua-to-Chronicles attribution conditionally, including "If this surmise be correct". That supports a MINOR qualification of certainty, not a finding that Tyndale did not do the work. Tier C: list the missing qualification. The Pentateuch and Jonah statement is supported; do not edit the source's quoted words.
- [dated] X13: The 2026-09-07 follow-up log records available CC0 TEI Coverdale 1535 A10349 and Bishops 1568 A10708, a Matthew 1537 gap, and Great Bible 1540 rather than proof for the 1539 printing. The earlier availability rationale is dated and replaced with the actual census omission; none of these texts has been newly tested.
- [declined] X14 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- [declined] X15 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. I reread f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:706-719. renderClaims builds its citation from who, where and says; it does not render retrievedUtc. The note identifies the missing displayed date for Nielson/Skousen while recording that the date exists in the data. Keep MINOR as citation metadata precision and list at tier C. No quotation needs changing.
- [fixed] X16: Re-read the N1 introductory Note excerpt for the vocabulary constraint. The PDF fetch was blocked here, but eBible BBE Genesis 1:3 independently prints Let there be light. Restricted vocabulary permits shared phrases; no actual borrowing is inferred.
- [declined] X17 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- [open note:b0ce8c] X18: The layer page and markdown now qualify the baseline claim. Shared memory/ledger-archive/P2.md:80 still says "A BASELINE WHERE THERE WAS NONE" and "THE COMPARISON NOBODY HAD MADE". Juhasz, printed pp. 129-130, note 4 reports an earlier KJV/Wycliffe comparison, treated as independent, with about seventy percent in common; this does not establish a predecessor to this exact Rheims comparison. The repair worker cannot edit the shared archive. Board note and directing-instance correction needed; same remaining copy as X28.
- [declined] X19 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. I reread f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/mansbridge.mjs:93-100 and census.mjs:117-121,345-347. The comparisons apply L2 before edit distance, with a 0.34 relative-distance threshold. Keep MINOR for the compressed description of that permissive rule, rather than treating the reproduced 80.4 percent as a numerical error. Tier C: list; an eventual clarification should name L2 and 0.34.
- [dated] X20: The generated attrnote repeats X13. It now says the intermediate Bibles are omitted from this comparison and that the follow-up located Coverdale and Bishops texts. The same single Updated line dates the search status.
- [fixed] X21: Re-read provenance.mjs: the score is vocabulary set membership. An OCR substitution can create a queried spelling, as well as remove one. This is a counterexample to the one-way claim, not a claim that a particular OCR error occurred. Recorded counts remain 802/943 and 1/942.
- [declined] X22 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. I reread f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:216,916-930. The film rate is literal HTML, and the provenance paragraph uses its own data. Thus the universal figure-provenance claim is too broad. This is MINOR under the task's explicit treatment of overclaims about automated checking. Tier C: list, sharing one error label with X23; the census tables do load their figures from census.json.
- [declined] X23 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. I reread f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:216,926-930. "1,883.9 a second" is present as literal prose, so "Nothing here" overstates automated figure insertion. Keep MINOR under the explicit own-checking rule and list at tier C. This is the same universal automation overclaim as X22, not a separate defect in the value 1883.9.
- [declined] X24 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. I reread f5e5f84f34:research/tyndale-census/census.mjs:117-121,345-347 and mansbridge.mjs:93-100. The near-spelling comparison uses L2 forms and relative edit distance at most 0.34. This table repeats X19's compressed rule description; its numerical result is not challenged. Keep MINOR and list at tier C. The other table cells are not reasons to change the displayed retention figures.
- [fixed] X25: DIGRAPHS maps ie to e, and L2_RULES[1].apply(ie) returns e. The first-vowel description now names the exception; no mapping or retention value changed.
- [open note:4103a9] X26: The layer page and markdown now give the two-Testament sample scope. Shared memory/ledger-archive/P2.md:80 still says "18 sampled passages" out of 260 chapters. The OpenAlex abstract describes eighteen passages from the portions Tyndale translated and gives separate New and Old Testament estimates. The repair worker cannot edit the shared archive. Board note and directing-instance correction needed; same remaining copy as X31. Preserve the attributed Daniell quotation.
- [fixed] X27: Re-read mansbridge.mjs and census.mjs: the permissive rule first applies L2, then accepts relative character edit distance at most 0.34. Clarified this rule in the dek sentence already changed for X11, as the same-sentence exception permits. No MINOR correction line added.
- [open note:b0ce8c] X28: The layer page and markdown now qualify the baseline claim. Shared memory/ledger-archive/P2.md:80 retains the universal baseline and comparison-priority wording. Juhasz, printed pp. 129-130, note 4 supports an earlier KJV/Wycliffe comparison, with an edition caveat, rather than a predecessor to this exact Rheims comparison. The shared archive is outside the repair worker's edit scope; same pending board note and directing-instance correction as X18.
- [declined] X29 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- [declined] X30 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. I reread f5e5f84f34:public/strata/tyndale-exactly/index.html:1198-1205 and engine.js, and replayed MAT 5:2 with the pinned map: learned matches 9/9 while literal matches 6/9. The button selects from learned whole verses without resetting the current rung. Its label is true under the selection criterion but omits that condition. Keep MINOR for the missing rung qualification and list at tier C; do not turn the note into a claim that the learned whole-verse result is false.
- [open note:4103a9] X31: The layer page and markdown now give the two-Testament sample scope. Shared memory/ledger-archive/P2.md:80 still places all eighteen sampled passages within 260 New Testament chapters, contrary to the reconstructed OpenAlex abstract. The shared archive is outside the repair worker's edit scope; same pending board note and directing-instance correction as X26. Preserve the attributed Daniell quotation.
- [declined] X32 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- [declined] X33 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- [declined] X34 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- [declined] X35 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- [declined] X36 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- [declined] X37 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- [declined] X38 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- [declined] X39 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- [declined] X40 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- [declined] X41 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- [declined] X42 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- [declined] X43 (MINOR): left unchanged under the directing triage. The checker's note and the source-record excerpts retain the publishers' geographic qualifications: the KJV declaration distinguishes the UK from elsewhere, and BBE specifies the United States. The collective wording omits those qualifications without expressly claiming worldwide legal status. Keep MINOR as a precision issue and list at tier C. These entries repeat one collective wording issue, not sixteen independent defects or a finding that every individual publisher declaration is false. Preserve any quoted publisher wording.
- [dated] X44: Re-read the Article JSON-LD and the 2026-09-25 film/correction log. dateModified now says 2026-10-14. The substantive correction lines date this revision; the explicit JSON-LD exception requires no additional page line.
- [fixed] X45: Replayed the original inline renderer: 70 zero-height block bars, against 25 nonzero chapter bars. The census now exports its 398 actual consecutive verse blocks and both options draw from their own units. The final block has seventeen verses; redraw preserves the selected option.
- [dated] X46: The launch log records successful empty-directory runs on 2026-09-07. The N2 check on 2026-10-14 records twelve changed archive digests and a missing engtnt.tsv after fetch refusal. Re-read fetch.mjs: digest mismatch continues before parsing or writing TSV. My additional archive request returned HTTP 403; I do not claim to have re-downloaded all twelve. The recipe is explicitly dated and marked as currently stopped, without claiming changed underlying text or revising the registry.