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Old 05-30-2008, 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Cody1611 View Post
I was wondering if English was the seventh language to be translated into the Bible and if so, what is the list of languages from first to seventh.
I very much doubt anybody knows this for sure. I wouldn't base any conclusion on whether or not English was the seventh language to have the Bible translated into.

The KJV is, however, a "seventh translation" of the Bible in English. The prior translations leading up to the KJV were given in the "Rules to be Observed in the Translation of the Bible" that the translators went by after they were commissioned to do their work.

1. Tyndale
2. Matthew
3. Coverdale
4. Great Bible
5. Geneva
6. Bishops

...7. Authorized Version

I'd ignore other so-called "7th lists" leading up the AV -- they don't all agree and fudge a few things to make it right, whereas the KJV translation rules clearly and openly said which previous English translations the KJV "derived" from. While there were other English translations, they were not part of the "purification process" at least according to the committee rules adopted for the AV translation.