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| OldCovenant | NewCovenant |
This version, in two volumes, was translated by CharlesFoster Kent, with the collaboration of four other persons. The aim, throughthe selection of certain parts of the Bible which have seemed to the editorsespecially well suited, is to kindle the interest of the busy modern readerin the Bible as a whole. It is not intended as a substitute for the completetext or the time-honored versions.
Duplications have been omitted, while kindred parts havebeen brought together. The material in each group has been arranged accordingto the nature of its contents or the order in which it was written. Thus,the order of the King James Version is not followed.The groups in the Old Testament are titled as follows: Stories and Histories,Laws, The Prophets, The Lyrics, and The Teachings of the Wise. In the NewTestament, they are titled as follows: Matthew, Mark, and Luke; The Teachingsof Jesus; The Acts of the Apostles; PaulÌs Letters; Later Writings;and The Gospel of John. The Index of Biblical Passages in both Testaments liststhe books, the Biblical reference, the section number, and the page number.
Charles Scribner's Sons (NT 1918, OT 1925)
[Tyndale House, Cambridge, UnitedKingdom]
In the beginning when God created the heaven and the earth,
In the beginning was the divine Wisdom, and the divineWisdom was with God, and the divine Wisdom was God. He was in the beginningwith God; through him all things came into being and without him nothingwhich existed came into being. |
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