Get your Pilgrim Bible
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Protestants with a Puritan streak and historians of the Bible can now order their very own copy of the “1599 Geneva Bible”:http://www.tollelegepress.com/gb/geneva.php (a replica, of course), first brought by the Pilgrims to the New World.
An advisory board of Protestant scholars worked on the project.
They describe it like this:
“When the Pilgrims arrived in the New World in 1620, they brought along supplies, a consuming passion to advance the Kingdom of Christ, and the Word of God. Clearly, their most precious cargo was the Bibleâ€â€specifically, the 1599 Geneva Bible. All but forgotten in our day, this version of the Bible was the most widely read and influential English Bible of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A superb translation, it was the product of the best Protestant scholars of the day and became the Bible of choice for many of the greatest writers and thinkers of that time. Men such as William Shakespeare, John Bunyan, and John Milton used the Geneva Bible in their writings. William Bradford also cited the Geneva Bible in his famous book Of Plymouth Plantation.”
The Geneva Bible was the first to use chapters and numbered verses, and also includes notes from Reformation Hall-of-Famers like John Calvin and John Knox.
The publisher promises word-for-word accuracy with the original  but modern spelling.
A hardback costs $29.99.
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I want that
define modern? if its from middle-english its going to be a translation.
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