Luke 14:5 Ass or Son

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What's In Your Bible Luke 14:5 Ass or Son

“ass”, "son” or “a sheep”?

Luke 14:5 - KJB - “And (Jesus) answered them, saying, Which of you shall have AN ASS or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?”

Son:

NIV, RSV, NASB, Jehovah Witness NWT, ESV, Catholic St. Joseph NAB, New Jerusalem bible

Sinaiticus matches KJB with "ass"

Vaticanus has a SON

“Ass” is found in Sinaiticus, A, K, L, X, Pi, Psi, the Old Latin a, air, b, c, ff2, i, l, r1, the Syriac Palestinian, Coptic Boharic, Armenian, Ethiopic and Slavonic ancient versions.

Westcott and Hort rejected the Reformation text of the King James Bible reading "ASS" and they went with "SON yet neither the Revised Version of 1881 nor the ASV of 1901 agreed with them, and stuck to the traditional reading of "an “ASS”

Reformation Bibles:

Wycliffe

Tyndale

Coverdale

Matthew's Bible

Great Bible

Geneva Bible

Bishops’ Bible

Douay-Rheims

The first major English bible to adopt the Vaticanus reading of SON instead of ASS was the RSV in 1952, even though Sinaiticus reads AN ASS and both the RV and ASV.

Then followed the son in NRSV, NASB, NIV, ESV, Jehovah Witness New World Translation, Common English Bible and Dan Wallace’s NET version.

Foreign language Bibles

Jerome’s Vulgate 382 A.D.,

Vulgate 405,

Clementine Vulgate

The Western-Saxon Gospels

Anglo-Saxon Gospels,

The Spanish Evangelio Según San Lucas

Rey de Alfonso X

El Sabio

Las Sagradas Escrituras

Cipriano de Valera