To see those characters you can use something like:
$ sed -n 'l' Genesis.txt
[...]
6 \266 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the wat\
ers, and let it divide the waters from the waters.$
[...]
or using standard commands (depending on which one, the output may differ):
$ grep "Let the waters under " Genesis.txt
9 � And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together [...]
9 M-6 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.^M
that \266 is the octal code for it. To list all special characters in the Latin-1 set see
$ man iso_8859-1
(Note that 'man ascii' will only display/list the original 7bit character set).
You can remove that using its octal code via sed (making a backup of the original file as well)
$ sed -i.bak 's/\o266//g' Genesis.txt
To remove the ^M there are other methods:
$ dos2unix Genesis.txt Genesis_fixed.txt
$ strings Genesis.txt > Genesis_fixed.txt
$ tr -d $'\r' < Genesis.txt > Genesis_fixed.txt
or just use sed (note that you need to type Ctrl+V then Ctrl+M to get the right symbol)
$ sed -i.bak 's/\^M//g' Genesis.txt
a more general approach found on the internet is to get rid of all but the ASCII octal values quoted in the command:
$ tr -cd '\11\12\15\40-\176' Genesis.txt > Genesis_fixed.txt
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