tokens: the King James Bible ) reports 6637 marginal notes in the KJV Old Testament , of which 31 are instances of the KJV translators drawing attention to `` qere '' and `` ketiv '' , most being like Psalm 100 verse 3 with `` ketiv '' being in the main KJV text and the `` qere '' in the KJV marginalia ( albeit that the Revised Version placed this `` qere '' in the main text ) , but a handful ( such as 1 Samuel 27:8 for example ) being the other way around .