| Geneva Bible – The “People’s Bible” was the first English Bible to use verse divisions and was the first Bible brought over by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower.ġ568 A.D. Bible which contain the verse divisions we still use today.ġ560 A.D. Together, these translations (along with Beza's 1598 revisions and the Complutensian Polyglot), become known later as the “Textus Receptus” in 1633.ġ551 A.D. Robert “Stephanus” Estienne translates and confirms Erasmus’ text from 1516. | Great Bible – Myles Coverdale oversees this translation which was authorized for use by the Church of England.ġ550 A.D. This was also the 1st English Bible to be translated from the original Hebrew & Greek.ġ539 A.D. | Matthew Bible – John “Thomas Matthew” Rogers prints the second complete English language Bible by utilizing both Tyndale's and Coverdale's work. | Coverdale Bible - Myles Coverdale completes the first complete Bible printed in the English language.ġ537 A.D.

| Luther Bible - publishes his first complete Bible in the modern German language.ġ535 A.D.

It is thought to be the first Bible to contain a map.ġ534 A.D. | Zurich Bible - The Zürich Bible is a Bible translation historically based on the translation by the Swiss reformer, Huldrych Zwingli. These are not the same verse divisions used today.ġ531 A.D. | Pagnini Bible - Sante Pagnini is the first translator to divide the biblical text into numbered verses and one of the first revisions of the Latin Vulgate using the original languages. | Tyndale Bible - William Tyndale translates the New Testament into English.ġ528 A.D. | Luther Pentateuch - Martin Luther translates the five books of Moses, known as 'the Pentateuch' or 'Torah' into German.ġ525/26 A.D. | Luther New Testament - Martin Luther translates the New Testament into German, referred to as the 'September Bible'.ġ523 A.D. This was the 1st accurate source-text of the original languages needed for translation.ġ522 A.D.

It was a six-volume set printed in Spain. | Complutensian Polyglot - The 1st complete Polyglot Bible printed in the original languages of Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. – Desiderius Erasmus publishes his translation of the New Testament from the original Greek, in an effort to correct the corrupt Latin Vulgate.ġ514-17 A.D. | Gutenberg Bible – Johann Gutenberg prints the 1st book ever. | Wycliffe Bible - John Wycliffe is the first to translate the entire Latin Vulgate into Middle English.ġ455 A.D. This becomes the official Bible of the Roman Church for over 1,000 years.ġ384 A.D. | Latin Vulgate - Jerome translates the scriptures into Latin for the first time. are written by the original authors.ģ84 A.D. is written – The 27 Greek Books of the N.T. authors quoted directly from the Greek Septuagint.Ĥ0-100 A.D. | Greek Manuscripts – The original Hebrew is translated into Greek by 70 (or 72) Jewish translators, producing what is referred to as “The Septuagint” or simply 'LXX' for 70. | Hebrew Manuscripts – The original Books of the O.T.

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