Bible (King James)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Anonymous or composite
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~770,000 words · 3,640 passages
Cite this work
- APABible. (n.d.). The Holy Bible (King James Version) [Bible (King James)]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/bible/the-holy-bible-king-james-version
- MLABible. The Holy Bible (King James Version) [Bible (King James)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/bible/the-holy-bible-king-james-version.
- ChicagoBible. The Holy Bible (King James Version) [Bible (King James)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/bible/the-holy-bible-king-james-version.
Reference to the edition that SigPhi reproduces: SigPhi is its digital reproduction, not its publisher. The edition's year is not in the metadata (hence "n.d."), and the translator appears only when recorded.
What it is about
The King James Bible of 1611: the Old and New Testaments in the version that became the standard English text for three centuries.
Context and history
James I commissioned it and some forty translators in six companies produced it, but they did not start from nothing: much of the prose comes from William Tyndale, executed in 1536 for having translated the Bible into English. It is worth remembering that this is a translation — for any question about the text, the originals are the Hebrew and the Greek, and that is where checking has to be done.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.…