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John Speed's Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures (1611), bound into first King James Bible in quarto size (1612). The title of the first edition of the translation, in Early Modern English, was "THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Teſtament, AND THE NEW: Newly Tranſlated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Tranſlations diligently compared and reuiſed, by his Maiesties ...
Unlike the New King James Version, the 21st Century King James Version does not alter the language significantly from the King James Version. [3] The author has eliminated "obsolete words". [3] The changes in words are based on the second edition of the Webster's New International Dictionary. [3] There were no changes related to gender or theology.
King James Version—Twentieth Century Edition Jay P. Green: NKJV: New King James Version: 1982 KJ21: 21st Century King James Version: 1994 TMB: Third Millennium Bible: 1998 MKJV: Modern King James Version by Jay P. Green [14] 1999 AKJV: American King James Version [15] 1999 KJV2000: King James Version 2000 [16] 2000 UKJV: Updated King James ...
Overall, very few changes were made, and the result is a book which is almost indistinguishable from the King James Version. [citation needed] It has sometimes been called the Common Version (which is not to be confused with the Common Bible of 1973, an ecumenical edition of the Revised Standard Version).
The edition of the King James Bible found in modern printings is not that of the 1611 edition, but rather an edition extensively modernised in 1769 (to the standards of the mid-18th Century) by Benjamin Blayney for the Oxford University Press. A sample of the King James – as updated by Blayney – shows the similarity to modern English:
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He was an advocate of the Byzantine text (majority text) over more modern manuscripts as a source for Bible translations. He was the first to distinguish the Textus Receptus from the Byzantine text. Scrivener compared the Textus Receptus with the editions of Stephanus (1550), Theodore Beza (1565), and Elzevier (1633) and enumerated all the ...
“I wrote and edited the English version of the book with one publisher [HarperCollins] and that was then licensed to other publishers,” including the Dutch version’s publisher, Xander Uitgevers.