“We desire that the Scripture may speak like itself, as in the language…” — King James Bible

“We desire that the Scripture may speak like itself, as in the language of Canaan, that it may be understood even of the very vulgar.”

Expressing the aim of making sacred writing intelligible to ordinary readers · Preface, The Translators to the Reader (1611)

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The King James Bible, more accurately called the King James Version or Authorized Version, does not have a birth and death date in the ordinary biographical sense, because it is neither a person nor the work of a solitary author. Yet it has a remarkably vivid life story. “Born” in print in 1611, during the reign of…

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