The Authorized Version
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A list of all the books in the Authorized ‘King James’ translation of the Bible.
The King James or Authorized Version of the Bible has been called ‘the Book that made England’, and the tale it tells is known worldwide as the greatest story ever told. This book has shaped (for the better) our country’s language, ideas and morality for over four centuries. Read it here, complete and unabridged, including the Apocrypha.
In 1611, a team of scholars delivered to King James I of England the new translation of the Bible that he had commissioned from them.
In 1603, King James VI of Scotland became also James I of England. A year later, he commissioned from leading scholars in the Church of England a new English translation of the Bible, to be ‘appointed to be read in churches’. After it was published in 1611, the Authorized Version quickly came to be recognised as one of the supreme masterpieces of the English tongue.