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  2. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    A short word list was collected by James King in 1778. 1823: Xhosa: John Bennie's Xhosa reading sheet: Complete Bible translation 1859 c. 1833: Vai: Vai syllabary created by Momolu Duwalu Bukele. 1833: Sotho: reduced to writing by French missionaries Casalis and Arbousset: First grammar book 1841 and complete Bible translation 1881 1837: Zulu

  3. King James Version - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Textus Receptus - Wikipedia

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    Base translation is from the Vulgate but 1749–52 editions onwards (Challoner revisions) contain major borrowings from the Tyndale, Geneva and King James versions. [134] [135] [136] King James Version 1611, 1613, 1629, 1664, 1701, 1744, 1762, 1769, 1850; English Dort Version 1657, English translation of the Statenvertaling by Theodore Haak ...

  5. List of English Bible translations - Wikipedia

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    Revision of the King James Version. Tree of Life Bible [19] TLB Modern English 2014 Masoretic Text, the 27th Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece: The Old Testament translation is based on the Hebrew Masoretic text. It follows the edition of Seligman Baer except for the books of Exodus to Deuteronomy, which never appeared in Baer's edition.

  6. Bible translations into English - Wikipedia

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    Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne and Abbot of Malmesbury (639–709), is thought to have written an Old English translation of the Psalms. Bede (c. 672–735) produced a translation of the Gospel of John into Old English, which he is said to have prepared shortly before his death. This translation is lost; we know of its existence from Cuthbert of ...

  7. Early Modern English Bible translations - Wikipedia

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    The King James Version (KJV), or Authorized Version is an English translation of the Holy Bible, commissioned for the Church of England at the behest of James I of England. First published in 1611, it has had a profound impact not only on most English translations that have followed it, but also on English literature as a whole.

  8. Geneva Bible - Wikipedia

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    The first and early editions of the King James Bible from 1611 and the first few decades thereafter lack annotations, unlike nearly all editions of the Geneva Bible up until that time. [20] Puritans bringing the Geneva Bible to the New World. Initially, the King James Version did not sell well and competed with the Geneva Bible.

  9. Bible translations into the languages of Europe - Wikipedia

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    Authorized King James Version: 1637: Dutch: Bible translations into Dutch: 1681: Portuguese: A first edition of his New Testament translation was printed in Amsterdam in the year 1681 1694: Latvian: Bible translations into Latvian: 1735: Lithuanian: Bible translations into Lithuanian: 1739: Estonian: Bible translations into Estonian: 1756 ...