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No. The Bible was entirely writtencertainly before 200 AD, long before Shakespeare was born. The King James Translation of the Bible was first published during Shakespeare's lifetime, but Shakespeare had nothing to do with it. Hehad only a grammar school education and was not a cleric andso would under no circumstances have been called upon to help with the project.Nor is the text in any wayconsistent with his writing style, although it is also in Early Modern English. For example,Shakespeare's works exhibit a huge vocabulary of some 36,000 words, whereas the King James Bible uses only about 8,000. Although the translation is beautiful, it does not sound like Shakespeare.

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