HBRV - 1885
Holy Bible, Revised Version
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The Revised Vesion of the Bible was the first -- and remainsthe only -- officially authorised revision of the King JamesVersion. The work was entrusted to some fifty scholars from variousdenominations in Britain; American scholars were invited to co-operate, bycorrrespondence. The revisers were charged with introducing alterations onlyif they were required in order to be faithful to the original text. In the NewTestament alone more than 30,000 changes were made, over five thousand of them onthe basis of a better Greek text. The work was begun in 1879, and the RevisedVersion was published in 1885; the Apocrypha came out in 1895. TheAmerican Standard Edition, based on the Revised Version,was published in 1901.

Cambridge University Press (1885)

[Tyndale House, Cambridge, UnitedKingdom]

Genesis1: 1, 2

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of thedeep: and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

 
 

John1: 1 - 3

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was withGod, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. Allthings were made by him; and without him was not anything made that hathbeen made.

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