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Will the Best Bible Please Stand Up?

Data Over Dogma

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The Conservative Revision of the King James Version

The King James is a very very conservative revision of I believe it's a 1602 edition of the Bishop's Bible. The language that was being used in this translation was almost a century out of date and when the King James version was published in 1611 it was not widely louded. Scholars have looked at the 1611 King James version and suggest that the Hebrew Bible matches the Coverdale Hebrew Bible about 74% of the time. It's exactly word for word what Tyndall had. So over the course of almost a century you had very very little change between these translations.

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