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John Taylor Jones, an ABMU missionary, translated the New Testament from Greek into the Thai language. Part of the Bible in Thai was first published in 1834. Jones' translation of the New Testament in Thai was printed for the first time in 1846. [4] The translation of the Old Testament was finished in 1883 and the Bible with the complete ...
t. e. 1 Maccabees, [ note 1] also known as the First Book of Maccabees, First Maccabees, and abbreviated as 1 Macc., is a deuterocanonical book which details the history of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire as well as the founding and earliest history of the independent Hasmonean kingdom. It describes the promulgation of decrees ...
The Hebrews obtained gemstones from the Middle East, India, and Egypt. [ 1] At the time of the Exodus, the Bible states that the Israelites took gemstones with them ( Book of Exodus, iii, 22; xii, 35–36). When they were settled in the Land of Israel, they obtained gemstones from the merchant caravans travelling from Babylonia or Persia to ...
Revelation 12 is the twelfth chapter of the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The book is traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, [ 1][ 2] but the precise identity of the author remains a point of academic debate. [ 3] This chapter contains the accounts about the woman, the dragon ...
The Revised Version ( RV) or English Revised Version ( ERV) of the Bible is a late-19th-century British revision of the King James Version. It was the first (and remains the only) officially authorised and recognised revision of the King James Version in Great Britain. The work was entrusted to over 50 scholars from various denominations in ...
King James Only movement. The First Page of the Book of Genesis in the 1611 printing of the KJV. The King James Only movement (also known as King James Onlyism or KJV Onlyism) asserts the belief that the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible is superior to all other translations of the Bible. Adherents of the King James Only movement, mostly ...
The BRG Bible is inspired by red letter Bibles, first published by German-born entrepreneur and philanthropist Louis Klopsch in 1901, which highlight the words of Jesus in red, owing to the color of blood. [4] The BRG Bible uses blue ink for the spoken, quotable words of God the Father, red for the spoken words of Jesus and gold for references ...
The King James Version ( KJV ), also the King James Bible ( KJB) and the Authorized Version ( AV ), is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of King James VI and I. [ d][ e] The 80 books of the King James Version include 39 books ...