The One Year Bible KJV (2 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
But among all our joys, there was no one that more filled our hearts, than the blessed continuance of the preaching of God's sacred Word among us; which is that inestimable treasure, which excelleth all the riches of the earth; because the fruit thereof extendeth itself, not only to the time spent in this transitory world, but directeth and disposeth men unto that eternal happiness which is above in heaven.
Then not to suffer this to fall to the ground, but rather to take it up, and to continue it in that state, wherein the famous Predecessor of Your Highness did leave it: nay, to go forward with the confidence and resolution of a Man in maintaining the truth of Christ, and propagating it far and near, is that which hath so bound and firmly knit the hearts of all Your Majesty's loyal and religious people unto You, that Your very name is precious among them: their eye doth behold You with comfort, and they bless You in their hearts, as that sanctified Person who, under God, is the immediate Author of their true happiness. And this their contentment doth not diminish or decay, but every day increaseth and taketh strength, when they observe, that the zeal of Your Majesty toward the house of God doth not slack or go backward, but is more and more kindled, manifesting itself abroad in the farthest parts of
Christendom,
by writing in defence of the Truth, (which hath given such a blow unto that man of sin, as will not be healed,) and every day at home, by religious and learned discourse, by frequenting the house of God, by hearing the Word preached, by cherishing the Teachers thereof, by caring for the Church, as a most tender and loving nursing Father.
There are infinite arguments of this right Christian and religious affection in Your Majesty; but none is more forcible to declare it to others than the vehement and perpetuated desire of accomplishing and publishing of this work, which now with all humility we present unto Your Majesty. For when Your Highness had once out of deep judgment apprehended how convenient it was, that out of the Original Sacred Tongues, together with comparing of the labours, both in our own, and other foreign Languages, of many worthy men who went before us, there should be one more exact Translation of the holy Scriptures into the
English Tongue;
Your Majesty did never desist to urge and to excite those to whom it was commended, that the work might be hastened, and that the business might be expedited in so decent a manner, as a matter of such importance might justly require.
And now at last, by the mercy of God, and the continuance of our labours, it being brought unto such a conclusion, as that we have great hopes that the Church of
England
shall reap good fruit thereby; we hold it our duty to offer it to Your Majesty, not only as to our King and Sovereign, but as to the principal Mover and Author of the work: humbly craving of Your most Sacred Majesty, that since things of this quality have ever been subject to the censures of ill-meaning and discontented persons, it may receive approbation and patronage from so learned and judicious a Prince as Your Highness is, whose allowance and acceptance of our labours shall more honour and encourage us, than all the calumniations and hard interpretations of other men shall dismay us. So that if, on the one side, we shall be traduced by Popish Persons at home or abroad, who therefore will malign us, because we are poor instruments to make God's holy Truth to be yet more and more known unto the people, whom they desire still to keep in ignorance and darkness; or if, on the other side, we shall be maligned by self-conceited Brethren, who run their own ways, and give liking unto nothing, but what is framed by themselves, and hammered on their anvil; we may rest secure, supported within by the truth and innocency of a good conscience, having walked the ways of simplicity and integrity, as before the Lord; and sustained without by the powerful protection of Your Majesty's grace and favour, which will ever give countenance to honest and Christian endeavours against bitter censures and uncharitable imputations.
The Lord of heaven and earth bless Your Majesty with many and happy days, that, as his heavenly hand hath enriched Your Highness with many singular and extraordinary graces, so You may be the wonder of the world in this latter age for happiness and true felicity, to the honour of that great GOD, and the good of his Church, through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour.
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1
 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2
 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness
was
upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3
 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4
 And God saw the light, that
it was
good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5
 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6
 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7
 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which
were
under the firmament from the waters which
were
above the firmament: and it was so.
8
 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9
 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry
land
appear: and it was so.
10
 And God called the dry
land
Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that
it was
good.
11
 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed,
and
the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed
is
in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12
 And the earth brought forth grass,
and
herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed
was
in itself, after his kind: and God saw that
it was
good.
13
 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14
 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15
 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16
 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night:
he made
the stars also.
17
 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18
 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that
it was
good.
19
 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20
 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl
that
may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
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.
22
 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23
 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
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.
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.
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.
27
 So God created man in his
own
image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2
 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3
 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
4
 These
are
the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the L
ORD
God made the earth and the heavens,
5
 and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the L
ORD
God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and
there was
not a man to till the ground.
6
 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7
 And the L
ORD
God formed man
of
the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
8
 And the L
ORD
God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9
 And out of the ground made the L
ORD
God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
10
 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
11
 The name of the first
is
Pison: that
is
it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where
there is
gold;
12
 and the gold of that land
is
good: there
is
bdellium and the onyx stone.
13
 And the name of the second river
is
Gihon: the same
is
it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14
 And the name of the third river
is
Hiddekel: that
is
it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river
is
Euphrates.
15
 And the L
ORD
God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16
 And the L
ORD
God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17
 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
18
 And the L
ORD
God said,
It is
not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19
 And out of the ground the L
ORD
God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought
them
unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that
was
the name thereof.
20
 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21
 And the L
ORD
God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22
 and the rib, which the L
ORD
God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23
 And Adam said, This
is
now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24
 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25
 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.