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The Church Missionary Society undertook a new translation, known as the Cotta version, in 1833. [1]: 49 The Baptist missionaries produced their own translation, which appeared in print between 1859 and 1876. [1]: 52 To match the Revised Version of the Bible, the Sinhalese translation was revised between 1895 and 1910. [2]
The Digital Bible Library lists over 240 different contributors. [1] According to Wycliffe Bible Translators, in September 2024, speakers of 3,765 languages had access to at least a book of the Bible, including 1,274 languages with a book or more, 1,726 languages with access to the New Testament in their native language and 756 the full Bible ...
William Tolfrey (1778 – 4 January 1817, in Colombo) was a British civil servant in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) [1] and translator of the Bible into Sinhalese. [2] The BFBS revised his translation from 1895 to 1910.
[20] [21] In 2008 he started a free internet version of it, the first online English–Sinhala dictionary. [22] [23] Kulatunga later admitted that he had infringed the copyright of the Malalasekera English–Sinhala dictionary in creating his software, but he said in 2015 that he no longer infringed on copyrights.
A Glasgow Bible; Bible translations into Scots; Bible translations into Scottish Gaelic; Bible translations into Serbian; Bible translations into Sinhala; Bible translations into Slavic languages; Bible translations into Slovak; Bible translations into Sogdian; Bible translations into Sorbian; List of Syriac New Testament manuscripts
In Islam, Barakah or Baraka (Arabic: بركة "blessing") is a blessing power, [1] a kind of continuity of spiritual presence and revelation that begins with God and flows through that and those closest to God.
The term derives from the Authorized King James Version, referring to the spiritual gifts given the disciples of Jesus on the day of Pentecost, in which they were "endowed with power from on high," [12] Christians generally understand this endowment to refer to the gift of the Holy Spirit, which the Latter Day Saints believe is given at the ...
Aggañña Sutta is the 27th sutta of the Digha Nikaya collection (Pāli version [1]). The sutta describes a discourse imparted by The Buddha to two brahmins, Bharadvaja and Vasettha, who left their family and varna to become monks. The two brahmans are insulted and maligned by their own caste for their intention to become members of the Sangha.