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PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS,

BY DAWSON, BENSLEY, AND COOKE,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY;

And sold by W. DAWSON, Oxford Bible Warehouse, Paternoster-Row, London.

1804.

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TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE

JAMES,

By the Grace of God, King of GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, and IRELAND, Defender of the Faith, &c.

The Tranflators of the Bible with Grace, Mercy, and Peace, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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REAT and manifold were the bleffings, most dread Sovereign, which Almighty God, the Father of all mercies, bestowed upon us the people of England, when first he fent Your Majesty's Royal Perfon to rule and reign over us, For whereas it was the expectation of many, who wished not well unto our Sion, that upon the setting of that bright Occidental Star, Queen Elizabeth of most happy memory, some thick and palpable clouds of darkness would fo have overshadowed this Land, that men should have been in doubt which way they were to walk; and that it should hardly be known, who was to direct the unfettled State; the appearance of Your Majesty, as of the Sun in his ftrength, instantly dispelled those supposed and furmised mifts, and gave unto all that were well affected exceeding cause of comfort; especially when we beheld the Government established in Your Highness, and your hopeful Seed, by an undoubted Title, and this alfo accompanied with peace and tranquillity at home and abroad.

But among all our joys, there was no one that more filled our hearts, than the blessed continuance of the preaching of God's facred word among us; which is that ineftimable treasure, which excelleth all the riches of the earth; because the fruit thereof extendeth itself, not only to the time spent in this tranfitory world, but directeth and disposeth men unto that eternal happiness which is above in Heaven.

Then not to fuffer this to fall to the ground, but rather to take it up, and to continue it in that state, wherein the famous Predeceffor of your Highness did leave it : nay, to go forward with the confidence and refolution of a Man in maintaining the truth of Christ, and propagating it far and near, is that which hath fo bound and Armly 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 fanctified Perfon, 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 flack or go backward, but is more and more kindled, manifefting itself abroad in the fartheft parts of Christendom, by writing in defence of the truth, (which hath given fuch a blow unto that man of fin, as will not be healed,) and every day at home, by religious and learned difcourse, by frequenting the house of God, by hearing the word preached, by cherishing the teachers thereof, by caring for the Church, most tender and loving nurfing Father.

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There are infinite arguments of this right chriftian and religious affection in Your Majesty; but none is more forcible to declare it to others than the vehement and perpetuated defire 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 Tranflation of the holy Scriptures into the English Tongue; Your Majesty did never defift to urge and to excite those to whom it was commended, that the work might be haftened, and that the business might be expedited in so decent a manner, as a matter of fuch importance might justly require.

And now at last, by the mercy of God, and the continuance of our labours, it being brought unto fuch a conclufion, 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

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THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY.

Author of the work: humbly craving of Your most Sacred Majesty, that fince things of this quality have ever been fubject to the cenfures of ill-meaning and difcontented perfons, it may receive approbation and patronage from fo 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 fide, 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 defire still to keep in ignorance and darkness; or if, on the other fide, fide, we shall be maligned by selfconceited 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 confcience, having walked the ways of fimplicity and integrity, as before the Lord; and fuftained without by the powerful protection of Your Majesty's grace and favour, which will ever give countenance to honeft and chriftian endeavours againft bitter cenfures 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 fingular and extraordinary graces, fo 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 Jefus Chrift our Lord and only Saviour.

The Names and Order of all the Books of the Old and New Testament, with the Number of their Chapters.

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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED GENESIS.

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I The creation of heaven and earth. 26 Of man in the image of God. 29 The appointment of food.

IN N 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 faid, 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 darknefs.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darknefs he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

6 And God faid, 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 fo.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the fecond day.

9 And God faid, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was fo.

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 darknefs: and God faw that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20 And God faid, 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 faw that it avas good.

22 And God bleffed them, faying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the feas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

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And God faid, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beaft of the earth after his kind: and it was fo.

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 faw that it was good.

10 And God called the dry land Earth; 26 And God faid, Let us make mari and the gathering together of the waters in our image, after our likeness: and let called he Seas: and God faw that it was good.

11 And God faid, Let the earth bring forth grafs, the herb yielding feed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose feed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was fo.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding feed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose feed awas in itself, after his kind: and God faw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 And God faid, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for figns, and for feafons, 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 fo.

them have dominion over the fish of the fea, 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 ösun image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28 And God bleffed them, and God faid unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and fubdue it and have dominion over the fish of the fea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29 And God faid, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing feed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding feed; to you it shall be for meat.

30 And to every beast of the earth, and

16 And God made two great lights; to every fowl of the air, and to every the greater light to rule the day, the leffer light to rule the night made the stars alfo:

and thing that creepethupon the earth, where be in there is life, I have given every green Therb for meat: and it was fo.

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