If the King's Printer had a list of changes to be made to the text of the first edition when using that edition as the copy text for a later setting, it would have contained some or all of the entries given below. The list given here derives from variant readings in the second edition that are also found in other early settings; a tick indicates that the edition has the change. Pairs of editions in the three smaller formats are given, one of which has ‘he went’, the other ‘she went’ at Ruth 3:15. The 1613 and 1616 folios, as independent settings, are also given. Finally, though it used the second edition as copy text, the 1617 folio, the third edition in the large Black Letter series, is included.

The 1612 octavos (H315 and H316, as represented on microfilm) are mixed, and so are sometimes identical.

Readings that are found in some copies of the first edition are not included (Exod. 21:26–7, ‘let them go’ followed by ‘let him go’; 2 Sam. 17:25, ‘Abigal’; Song 2:7, ‘till he please’; and 1 Macc. 13 summary, ‘40’); all except the last are found in all the editions listed below.

An asterisk indicates a reading found in the Cambridge Concord and, for the Apocrypha, Pitt Brevier editions, taken as the modern standard; the marginal variants in the Apocrypha have been compared with Scrivener's Cambridge Paragraph Bible.