:TEXT: "such as had not been since man was on the earth" : p47vid ("man were") A most cop : ASVn NASV NIV NEB ("human history") TEV RANK: CNOTES: "such as had not been since men were on the earth" : S 046 051 1 94 1006 1611 1854 2053 2344 Maj lat vg syr(ph,h) some cop(north) one cop(south) : KJV ASV : The words translated "has been" and "was" are the same word in Greek. Perhaps in order to avoid having the same word three times so close together, some manuscripts omitted "was" before "earthquake" (046 Maj(K,B)) while others changed "man was" to "men were."