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BIBLE HISTORY - ENGLISH BIBLE

1380

Wycliffe Bible (New Testament)

1388

Wycliffe Bible (Old Testament)

1539

The Great Bible

1557

The Geneva Bible (New Testament)

1560

The Geneva Bible (Old Testament)

1606

Bishop's Bible - much of the King James came from the Bishop's Bible

1611

King James Authorized Version (KJV) that contained the Apocrypha (recognized not necessarily authorized by the church)

1629

First Authorized Version without the Apocrypha

1631

Wicked Bible - the word "not" was left out of the 7th commandment

1650

Contained multiple printing errors

1701

Insertion of dates of Archbishop Ussher in margin

1717

Luke 20 "vinegar" instead of "vineyard"

1769

Today's Authorized Version (Oxford Standard) which differs from the 1611 version in over 75,000 details

1777

First King James Version New Testament printed in the USA

1782

First King James Version Bible printed in the USA

1795

Mark 7:27 misspelled "killed" for "filled", called Murder's Bible

1881, 1885

English Revised Version - ERV

1901

American Standard Version - ASV

1973

New International Version - NIV