A few years ago I was sitting in church minding my own business when all of a sudden it was time to “turn in our bibles to Isaiah chapter such and such, verse such and such.”
Ok, no problem, here I go.
As I’m flipping through and NOT finding Isaiah anywhere I kind of start to freak out a little. Maybe a little sweat developed on my upper lip, maybe not. I have been reading the Bible for years. I know where Isaiah is right? That HUGE book right smack dab in the middle of the Bible. How am I not finding it? Am I a horrible Bible reader? Everyone else seems to have found it. I can’t possibly have to go to the table of contents to figure out where it is do I? I guess I do. This is ridiculous. Who decided to preach on this subject anyway? Oh, ok page 566. There it is.
Wait. I don’t have a page 566. Ummmmmm….
So if I read that table of contents correctly, it goes Song of Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah. Not so in this Bible. Nope. A whole book is flat out missing.
Nothing had ben ripped out. And from the picture above, the page numbers just skip ahead. All 60 some odd pages just completely MIA. I told the people I was sitting with- after service of course, didn’t want to be rude- and we all got a good hearty laugh out of it. I remember telling my mom about it shortly thereafter and she of course wanted to send me a new one right away (she had gifted me the defunct Bible). But being as I already had another twelve five Bibles at home that mom had given me throughout my life, I let her know I would be fine and I’m sure I can find Isaiah in at least one of the other Bibles. 
And being the smarty pants that I am I decided to update the intro to the Bible to make sure it was accurately reflecting the actual state of the Bible instead of what it claimed.
And, in what is probably some equivalent to some sort of divine humor, I spelled Isaiah wrong while I was trying to be all smarty pants.
Cinnamon – 0, God- a million.
I started using an Apologetics Bible but its kind of big and cumbersome, so lately I decided to use this Bible again since its light and flexible. A few weeks ago I was thumbing through said Bible again doing one of my morning #SheReadsTruth devotionals when lo and behold I found this.
Not one but TWO Jeremiah’s. I went past Jeremiah and then was still thumbing through and found ANOTHER Jeremiah.
There are also two Lamentations with one page missing out of one of them. This Bible is a HOT MESS. Somehow the printing got completely messed up and I bet out there somewhere there is a Bible that has two Isaiah’s and no Jeremiah or Lamentations in it. Wouldn’t it be crazy if the person who had THAT Bible had a blog and blogged about their crazy Bible too and somehow we were to find each other and reunite our Bibles in perfect harmony? Ok that just got weird. I know.
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So anyway, I decide to be done with all this craziness and went and got me a new Bible. One that was the size I like and is flexible and easy to read. I found the perfect one. And what do you know it has one Isaiah and one of every other book its supposed to have. Thank you Lord.
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I once checked on the bibles for sale at the Dollar Tree. Umm, yea, many similar issues – great price but you would need a few to piece a whole version together
HA! Who knew?
My students would always go nuts over a typo they thought they found in one of the novel sets we were reading. This is so much bigger than that! I hate that lost feeling in church! Some Sundays, when I haven’t had coffee yet, or am feeling particularly dazed, I’d be right there with you.
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In a way its kind of fun to find typos…I guess it makes us feel smart?! HA! This one was just baffling to me. I had to seriously check like 8 times to make sure it was actually missing. I don’t think I had any coffee that day either.
eatpraytri recently posted..The case of the missing (and extra) book
That’s bizarre. It always weirds me out when I find typos or crazy stuff like that happening in massively printed and distributed books. It’s like you expect someone to have caught those errors in all the editing!
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Right? That’s what I always say. “How many people looked at this and didn’t find this typo?” A LOT, I’m sure!
eatpraytri recently posted..The case of the missing (and extra) book
have you read Jeremiah yet? God put it in there twice for you so He obviously wanted you to read it. Pastor Jerry said on Sunday that anywhere in the Bible where a word is repeated it is for emphasis. You should ask about entire books being repeated…
haha Paul said something similar…”Jeremiah must be REALLY good in order to have it in there twice.” I should ask Jerry about it…no doubt there is some messag in there that I really need to hear!
eatpraytri recently posted..The case of the missing (and extra) book
What’s this about buying yourself a new Bible??!! I offered …. (ok, ok, you can buy your own Bibles now.) Luv ya, sweetie.
Nice Bible, by the way.
thanks, someone taught me how to pick ‘em
eatpraytri recently posted..The case of the missing (and extra) book
Oh. That is HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!! I would think I was losing my mind if I couldn’t find a book of the Bible. I used to have a pink Bible like the one you just bought. I loved that thing!
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Yeah, i was freakin!
eatpraytri recently posted..The case of the missing (and extra) book
That is funny! I love your new bible though, the cover is really pretty!
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Thanks, I love it too!!
eatpraytri recently posted..The case of the missing (and extra) book
BAHAHA! That is such a hilarious story! I especially love the score you gave yourself in comparison to God’s– a million does seem to portray an accurate score. Maybe even infinity
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ha! Infinity is WAY better!! Why didn’t I think of that??? LOL.
eatpraytri recently posted..The case of the missing (and extra) book
That is so hilarious, I love finding gems like that. I need to join this group, I am reading the bible again by myself but would love to join this souldetox when you guys start again.
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you should TOTALLY join! We just started another reading plan. Just go to shereadstruth.com and you can get all the info!
eatpraytri recently posted..The case of the missing (and extra) book
LOL!!! I like that you even tried to make corrections, that’s what I do with my cookbooks and even my husband’s car owner manual (I was helping him fixing the clutch master cylinder by reading the instructions when he got stuck…steps were missing there, too!) I can imagine the publishing company getting a Bible and thinking, “Oh, great, we have to edit one of THESE again??” and just checking the “OK AS IS” box, hahaha! Your book cover is pretty awesome. Nice, neat stitching is always a big plus!
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haha…isn’t it crazy how much stuff gets missed? I think you are right though, someone out there is probably just like ‘yeah, its good….check!” ha!
eatpraytri recently posted..The case of the missing (and extra) book
That is TOO funny!! Don’t you love when you’re in church and the pastor says to turn to some chapter in Obadiah or Amos and you’re like ‘ummmm …. where’s that one?!” haha! And then this time, it seriously wasn’t there! Hilarious!
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Right? I always think that…what if I can’t find it? Am I even thumbing in the right direction???aaahhhh. And then all my worst nightmares came true. LOL. figures.
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