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The Internet Drug Index for prescription drugs, medications and pill identifier. 1AAUTO repair info. The men who translated the 400 year-old King James Bible in 1611. Donald L. Brake, Sr. VANCOUVER, Wa, June 22, 2011—There is an aura around the King James Bible that has made it the most reverenced Bible in the English Language for 400 years. Its beauty of expression, its rhythmic voice, and its pithy expressions have given it a sense of being the very words of God Himself. However, many who use the KJV do not know the story of its making nor the men who produced it.
The Translators Presenting the Bible To James I’, drawn by George E Kruger. Photograph: Hulton Archive In 1604, at the Hampton Court castle about 15 miles outside the plague infested London, a new version of the Bible had its beginning. The Puritans delighted in the news that James VI of Scotland would be crowned king of England. The new translation purposed by Puritan divine, John Rainolds, set well with James and he assigned Anglican bishop, Richard Bancroft, the duty of appointing the men who would translate the new Bible. Cannabis. Survival/backpack.