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The Original Tongues :

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THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY

COMPARED AND REVISED,

BY HIS MAJESTY'S SPECIAL COMMAND.

APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES.

STEREOTYPE EDITION.

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Said by E. GARDNER, at the Oxford Bible Warehouse, Paternoster Row,
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TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE

JAMES,

BY THE GRACE OF GOD,

KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND IRELAND,

DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, &c.

The Translators of the Bible wish Grace, Mercy, and Peace,
through JESUS CHRIST our Lord.

GR REAT and manifold were the blessings, most dread Sovereign, which AlI mighty God, the Father of all mercies, bestowed upon us the people of England, when first he sent Your Majesty's Royal Person to rule and reign erus. For whereas it was the expectation of many, who wished not well our Sien, that upon the setting of that bright Occidental Star, Queen Bambeth of most happy memory, some thick and palpable clouds of darkness would so have overshadowed this Land, that men should have been in doubt which way they were to walk; and that it should hardly be known, who was to direct the unsettled State; the appearance of Your Majesty, as of the Sun in his strength, instantly dispelled those supposed and surmised mists, and

pe unto

when we beheld the Government established
hopeful Seed, by an undoubted Title, and this also accompanied with peace
and tranquillity at home and abroad.

But among all our joys, there was no one that more filled our hearts, than the Nissed continuance of the preaching of God's sacred Word among us; which is that inestimable treasure, which excelleth all the riches of the earth; because the fruit thereof extendeth itself, not only to the time spent in this story world, but directeth and disposeth men unto that eternal happiness bove in Heaven.

which is above in

to continue it in

Then not to suffer this to fall to the ground, but rather to take it up, and hes did leave it: nay, to go forward with the confidence and resolution of a that state, wherein the famous Predecessor of Your HighMan in maintaining the truth of Christ, and propagating it far and near, is that which hath so bound and firmly knit the hearts of all Your Majesty's loyni and religious people unto you, that your very name is precious among tem: their eye doth behold You with comfort, and they bless You in their beauts, as of their true hapiness. And this their contentment doth not diminish or dethat sanctified Person, who, under God, is the immediate Author day, but every day increaseth and taketh strength, when they observe, that the mal of Your Majesty toward the house of God doth not slack or go backward, but is more and more kindled, manifesting itself abroad in the farthest Jaru of Christendom, by writing in defence of the Truth, (which hath om such a biow unto that man of sin, as will not be healed,) and every day and learned discourse, by frequenting the house Word preached, by cherishing the Teachers thereof,

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by bearing the
for the Church, as a most tender and loving nursing Father.

in Your Majesty; but none is more forcible to declare it to others than the There are infinite arguments of this right christian and religious affection vehement and perpetuated desire of accomplishing and publishing of this work, which now with all humility we present unto Your Majesty. For when Your Highness had once out of deep judgment apprehended how conint it was, that out of the Original Sacred Tongues, together with comparing of the labours, both in our own, and other foreign Languages, of many wathy men who went before us, there should be one more exact Translation of the holy Scriptures into the English Tongue: Your Majesty did never deit to urge and to excite these ngrwhom it was commended, that the work matner, as a matter of such importance might justly require. might be hastened, and that the business might be expedited in so decent a

being brought unto such a conclusion, as that we have great hopes that the the mercy of God, and the continuance of our labours, Chech of England shall reap good fruit thereby; we hold it our duty the her it to Your Majesty, Doran frur and Sovereign, but as to

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principal Mover and Author of the work: humbly craving of Your most Sacred Majesty, that since things of this quality have ever been subject to the eensures of illmeaning and discontented persons, it may receive approbation and patronage from so learned and judicious a Prince as Your Highness is, whose allowance and acceptance of our labours shall more honour and encourage us, than all the calumniations and hard interpretations of other men shall dismay us. So that if, on the one side, we shall be traduced by Popish Persons at home or abroad, who therefore will malign us, because we are poor instruments to make God's holy Truth to be yet more and more knowr: unto the people, whom they desire still to keep in ignorance and darkness; or if, on the other side, we shall be maligned by selfconceited Brethren, who run their own ways, and give liking unto nothing, but what is framed by themselves, and hammered on their anvil; we may rest secure, supported within by the truth and innocency of a good conscience, having walked the ways of simplicity and integrity, as before the Lord; and sustained without by the powerful protection of Your Majesty's grace and favour, which will ever give countenance to honest and christian endeavours against bitter censures and uncharitable imputations.

The Lord of heaven and earth bless Your Majesty with many and happy days, that, as his heavenly hand hath enriched Your Highness with many singular and extraordinary graces, so you may be the wonder of the world in this latter age for happiness and true felicity, to the honour of that great GOD, and the good of his Church, through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour.

THE NAMES AND ORDER

OF ALL THE

BOOKS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT,

WITH THE NUMBER OF THEIR CHAPTERS.

the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upen the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

morning were the third day.
13 And the evening and the
14 And God said, Let there
the heaven to divide the day
be lights in the firmament of
from the night; and let them
be for signs, and for seasons,
and for days, and years:

And God called the light Dar, and the darkness he call od Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 69 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the Waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firma ment, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which

and it was so.

in the firmament of the heaven
15 And let them be for lights
and it was so.
to give light upon the earth:

16 And God made two great
the day, and the lesser light to
lights; the greater light to rule
rule the night: he made the
stars also.
17 And God set them in the
firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth,

18 And to rule over the day
vide the light from the dark-
and over the night, and to di
ness: and God saw that it was
good.

19 And the evening and the

were above the firmament: morning were the fourth day.
* And God called the firma- ters bring forth abundantly the
20 And God said, Let the wa-
Jent Heaven. And the even moving creature that hath life,
ine and the morning were the and fowl that may fly above
the earth in the open firma-

second day.
99 And God said, Let the ment of heaven.

waters under the heaven be ga

and let and it was so.

21 And God created great

thered together unto one place, whales, and every living crea-
the dry land appear: ture that moveth, which the wa-
10 And God called the dry after their kind, and every
ters brought forth abundantly,
together of the waters called he and God saw that it was good.
Earth; and the gathering winged fowl after his kind:
Seas: and God saw that it was
22 And God blessed them, say-

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pod.

And God said, Let the and fill the waters in the seas, earth bring forth grass, the herb and let fowl multiply in the Vieding seed, and the fruit tree earth. Fielding fruit after his kind, 23 And the evening and the whose seed is in itself, upon morning were the fifth day

ing, Be fruitful, and multiply,

the carth: and it was so.

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24 And God said, Let the

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