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The first audio Bible ( KJV in English language) was recorded and narrated by Alexander Scourby in the 1950s for the American Foundation of the Blind. [ 1] It was first recorded on long play records, then 8-track player, and then cassette tape. The Bible in cassette tape was 72-hours long, and it took 72 cassette tapes to record the entire ...
v. t. e. The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James Version by 51 years. [ 1] It was the primary Bible of 16th-century English Protestantism and was used by William Shakespeare, [ 2] Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne and others.
The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was released at a Jehovah's Witness convention at Yankee Stadium, New York, on August 2, 1950. [ 34][ 35] The translation of the Old Testament, which Jehovah's Witnesses refer to as the Hebrew Scriptures, was released in five volumes in 1953, 1955, 1957, 1958, and 1960.
The Book of Genesis (from Greek Γένεσις, Génesis; Biblical Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, romanized: Bərēʾšīṯ, lit. 'In [the] beginning'; Latin: Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. [ 1] Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, Bereshit ( 'In the beginning' ). Genesis is ...
GENESIS 2. On the seventh day, the Sabbath, God rests, and sanctifies the day. God forms Adam out of earth ("adamah"), and sets him in the Garden of Eden, to watch over it. Adam is allowed to eat of all the fruit within it, except that of the " Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil ." God then brings all the animals to Adam and Adam names them.
Translations of the Bible in Ge'ez, in a predecessor of the Ge'ez script which did not possess vowels, were created between the 5th and 7th century, [2] soon after the Christianization of Ethiopia in the 4th century. [3] The milestones of the modern editions were the Roman edition of the New Testament in 1548 edited by Tasfa Seyon, which is the ...
t. e. The Old English Bible translations are the partial translations of the Bible prepared in medieval England into the Old English language. The translations are from Latin texts, not the original languages. Many of these translations were in fact Bible glosses, prepared to assist clerics whose grasp of Latin was imperfect and circulated in ...
There are 80 books in the King James Bible; 39 in the Old Testament, 14 in the apocrypha, and 27 in the New Testament.. When citing the Latin Vulgate, chapter and verse are separated with a comma, for example "Ioannem 3,16"; in English Bibles chapter and verse are separated with a colon, for example "John 3:16".