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2. English Language Bible
The History of the
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3. Presbyterian Heritage Center
The Word
From manuscripts to King James
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Wyclif
1395
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Tyndale 1526
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William Tyndale – phrases
Eat, drink and be merry
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I imagined as a child
Salt of the earth
powers that be
Our father which art in heaven
Fight the good fight
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
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Coverdale
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1535
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Mathews
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1537
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The Great
Bible
1539
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Geneva
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1560
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Bishops
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1568
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King James Bible
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King James Bible
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King James Bible 1611
15 Rules for Translation
Use Bishops Bible
14. Consult translations made and printed by Tyndale, Matthews (Rogers), Coverdale, Whitchurch and Geneva.
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King James Bible 1611
15 Rules for Translation
6. No marginal notes at all, except for explanation of Hebrew or Greek words.
3. The old ecclesiastical words to be kept – the Word Church not to be translated as Congregation.
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King James Bible 1611
15 Rules for Translation
8. Every man translates chapters assigned and then the group meet to finalize for the company.
9. When finished, each company sends its work to the other companies for review and change or agreement.
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17. Six Companies of Translators
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King James Bible 1611
Six Companies of Translators
Appointed 1604
Two teams each from
Westminster
Oxford
Cambridge
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King James Bible 1611
Lancelot Andrewes
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19. The Word King James Bible 1611 Six Companies of Translators
Initial Translations 1604 – 1609
Revisions Committee meets 1610
1st Edition printed 1611 in two printings
So called He & She verisons
Due to typographical error
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Genesis 1
Wm. Tyndale c In the beginnyng God created heauen and erth. The erth was voyde and emptye, and darknesse was vpon the depe, & the spirite of God moued upon the water. Then God sayd: let there be lighte and there was lighte.
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Genesis 1
Geneva Bible In the beginning God created ye heauen and the earth. And the earth was without forme & voyde, and darkenes was vpon the depe, & the spirit of God moued vpon the waters. Then God saide, Let there be light: and there was light.
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Genesis 1
Bishops Bible 1569 – In the beginning GOD created the heauen & the earth. And the earth was without fourme, & was voyde: & darknesse was vpon the face of the deepe, and the Spirite of God moued vpon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be lyght: and there was lyght.
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Genesis 1
King James Bible In the beginning God created the Heauen, and the Earth. And the Earth was without forme, and voyd, and
darknesse was vpon the face of the deepe: and the Spirit of God mooued vpon the face of the waters. And God said Let there be light and there was light.
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Psalm 23
Geneva Bible 1560 –The Lord is my Shepherd, I shal not want. He maketh me to rest in grene pasture & leadeth me by the stil waters. He restoreth my soule, & leadeth me in the pathes of righteousness for his names sake. Yea, thogh I shulde walke through the valley of the shadow of death, I will feare no euil: for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staffe, they comfort me.
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Psalm 23
Bishops’ Bible God is my sheephearde, therefore I can lacke nothing: he wyll cause me to repose my selfe in pasture full of grasse, and he wyll leade me unto calme waters. He wyll convert my soule: he wyll bring me foorth into the pathes of righteousnesse for his name sake. Yea though I walke through the valley of the shadowe of death, I wyll feare no evyll: for thou art with me, thy rodde and thy staffe be the thynges that do comfort me.
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Psalm 23
King James Bible 1611
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Psalm 23
King James Bible The Lord is my Shepheard, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in greene pastures: he leadeth mee beside the still waters. He restoreth my soule: he leadeth me in the pathes of righteousness, for his names sake. Yea thogh I walke through the valley of the shadowe of death, I will feare no evill: for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staffe, they comfort me.
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John 3: 116
Tyndale & Geneva
King James Bible & The Great Bible
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John 15: 13
Tyndale: Thys ys my commaundement, that ye love togedder as I have loved you. Gretter love then this hath no man, then that a man bestowe his lyfe for his frendes.
King James Bible: This is my Commaundement, that ye loue one another, as I haue loued you. Greater loue hath no man then this, that a man lay downe his life for his friends.
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31. The Word King James Bible 1611 Public & Clerical Acceptance?
1615/1616 Banning the import of Geneva Bibles
Last Geneva Printing 1644
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32. Geneva Bible (Puritan)
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King James Bible 1611
America 1620
Geneva Bible (Puritan)
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33. The Word Oliver Cromwell & Commonwealth 1649 - 1659
Restoration of the Monarchy
1660
A Nation Building Bible
England & American Colonies
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King James Bible
Editions
1611 – 1617
1629 Cambridge edition
1769 Oxford edition
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