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The New International Version (NIV) is the second most popular English Bible (New Testament first published in 1973 and the full Bible in 1978). The King James Version(KJV) is the most popular English Bible (first edition published in 1611).The first English translation of the entire Bible was published by Miles Coverdale in 1535. In 1525-1526 the Tyndale New Testament became the first printed English edition of the Scriptures (2 known copies exist today). The first hand-written English manuscripts were written by John Wycliffe, translated from the Vulgate (Latin) in the 1380’s A.D. There are about 900 printed English versions of the Bible (complete and incomplete translations and paraphrases).

Johannes Gutenberg, after whom the Bible is named, printed about 180 copies without any printing errors (major parts of 48 copies exist today). After three years of constant printing, the 1454 Gutenberg Bible(Latin) was the first book to be printed on a movable metal type printing press (China invented woodblock printed books during the Tang Dynasty).Bible translation continues to be a major undertaking by the United Bible Societies, Wycliffe and many other agencies. In whole or in part, the Bible is accessible to 98% of the world’s population in a language in which they are fluent.

A full Bible translation in a person’s native/heart language is available for 70% of the world’s population.

Worldwide, there are 80,000+ versions of the Bible with full Bibles in 530+ languages and portions of the Bible in about 2,900 languages.

The Bible was written over the course of 1,500 years (beginning in about 1,400 B.C.) by more than 40 individuals, from many backgrounds (prophets, fishermen, kings, philosophers, scholars, poets), who lived in 10 different countries on three continents (Asia, Africa, Europe), writing in one of three languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek) about God and His interaction with 2,930 different characters from more than 1,550 different places.

It’s never shown on the best seller lists because it dwarfs the sales of all other books.

The Bible is the world’s best-selling book of all time and the best-selling book of the year, every year! Fifty Bibles are sold every minute.

Here are twenty interesting facts about the Bible: The Bible isn’t called the Book of books without just cause.

Whole codex gigas translated to english pdf