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THE

HOLY BIBLE,

CONTAINING THE

OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS:

TRANSLATED OUT OF

The Original Tongues:

AND WITH

THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY
COMPARED AND REVISED,

BY HIS MAJESTY'S SPECIAL COMMAND.

APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES.

STEREOTYPE EDITION.

OXFORD:

PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS,

BY SAMUEL COLLINGWOOD AND CO.

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

BaldEGARDNER, at the Oxford Bible Warehouse, Paternoster Rox,
ad by G. B. WHITTAKER, Ave-Maria Lane, London;
By H. MOZLEY and Son, Derby; and by T. WILSON and Sons, York.

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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.

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CREAT and manifold were the blessings, most dread Sovereign, which Al-
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

For whereas it was the expectation of many, who wished not well
our Son, that upon the setting of that bright Occidental Star, Queen
Beth of most happy memory, some thick and palpable clouds of darkness
w to 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

the unsettled State; the appearance of Your Majesty, as of the Sun strength, instantly dispelled those supposed and surmised mists, and e unto all that were well affected exceeding cause of comfort; especially we beheld the Government established in Your Highness, and Your peful 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 ted continuance of the preaching of God's sacred Word among us: which is that inestimable treasure, which excelleth all the riches of the earth; ee the fruit thereof extendeth itself, not only to the time spent in this sy world, but directeth and disposeth men unto that eternal happiness

which is above in Heaven.

Then not to suffer this to fall to the ground, but rather to take it up, and
to tie it in that state, wherein the famous Predecessor of Your High-

leave it: nay, to go forward with the confidence and resolution of a
Man in maintaining the truth of Christ, and propagating it far and near, is
which hath so bound and firmly knit the hearts of all Your Majesty's
and religious people unto you, that your very name is precious among
their eye doth behold You with comfort, and they bless You in their
, as that sanctified Person, who, under God, is the immediate Author
the true happiness. And this their contentment doth not diminish or de-

every day increaseth and taketh strength, when they observe, that al of Your Majesty toward the house of God doth not slack or go backpara of Christendom, by writing in defence of the Truth, (which hath , but is more and more kindled, manifesting itself abroad in the farthest

such a blow unto that man of sin, as will not be healed,) and every day by baring the Word preached, by cherishing the Teachers thereof, by caring abe, by religious and learned discourse, by frequenting the house of God, for the Church, as a most tender and loving nursing Father.

There are infinite arguments of this right christian and religious affection Tour Majesty; but none is more forcible to declare it to others than the hement and perpetuated desire of accomplishing and publishing of this when Your Highness had once out of deep judgment apprehended how conint it was, that out of the Original Sacred Tongues, together with comag of the labours, both in our own, and other foreign Languages, of many Why men who went before us, there should be one more exact Translation d to age and to excite those to whom it was commended, that the work of the holy Scriptures into the English Tongue; Your Majesty did never demight be hastened, and that the business might be expedited in so decent a er, as a matter of such importance might justly require.

And now at last, by the mercy of God, and the continuance of our labours,
being brought unto such a conclusion, as that we have great hopes that the
Ch of England shall reap good fruit thereby; we hold it our duty to
Mer it to Your Majesty, not only as to our King and Sovereign, but as to the

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THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY.

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 censures 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 encou rage 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 knowт: 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.

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12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind and God saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day. 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 said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that good: and God divided the Light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, all the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the Waters from the waters.

in the firmament of the heaven 15 And let them be for lights to give light upon the earth:

and it was so.

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.

firmament of the heaven to give 17 And God set them in the light upon the earth,

18 And to rule over the day 7 And God made the firma- vide the light from the darkand over the night, and to di. ment, and divided the waters ness: and God saw that it was which were under the firma- good.

ent from the waters which

and it was so.

were above the firmament: morning were the fourth day. 19 And the evening and the And God called the firma- ters bring forth abundantly the 20 And God said, Let the waing and the morning were the and fowl that may fly above ent Heaven. And the even- moving creature that hath life,

second day.

91 And God said, Let the ment of heaven.

the earth in the open firma

Waters under the heaven be ga

and it was so.

21 And God created great

thered together unto one place, whales, and every living creaand let the dry land appear: ture that moveth, which the wa10 And God called the dry after their kind, and every Lad Earth; and the gathering winged fowl after his kind; together of the waters called he and God saw that it was good.

ters brought forth abundantly,

Seas: and God saw that it was

good.

22 And God blessed them, sayearth bring forth grass, the herb and let fowl multiply in the And God said, Let the and fill the waters in the seas, ing, Be fruitful, and multiply,

eding seed, and the fruit tree earth.

Fielding fruit after his kind,

whose seed is in itself, upon morning were the fifth day.

23 And the evening and the

the earth: and it was so. 5

24

And God said, Let the

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