The Bible is the best-selling book in the history of the world. And the King James Version (1611), in particular, is the most widely published and distributed book of all time. ...
Ironically, King James I set out to publish a new translation of the Bible — in order to dethrone the Geneva Bible which was popular with the Puritans and other dissidents.
But the king did an excellent job in producing this book. There were six different translation groups, two from Westminster Abbey, two from Oxford, and two groups from Cambridge. And they were assigned different parts of the Bible to translate into English.
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