Did the government remove any Scriptures from the oldest Bible?

Answer 1

By the "oldest Bible," if it is meant of English translation, it is not owned by any government. First editions of Tyndale Bible of 1537 are privately owned. William Tyndale was the first to translate the Bible into English directly from the original language sources in Greek and Hebrew. He had actually circulated the English New Testament in 1525. Thomas Matthew, completed the Old Testament, one year after Tyndale was martyred in 1536 for supposed heresy. Thus the edition of the complete Bible is called the Matthew-Tyndale Bible.

While the first complete English translation was produced in1382 by the influence of John Wycliff, it was before the printing press, and translated from the Latin Vulgate translation, not the original languages.

In 1535, Myles Coverdale, Tyndale's friend, produced a translation of Bible into English, utilizing German, and Latin sources, not copies of the original manuscripts.

If someone is trying to tell you that "the government" has taken scriptures out of the Bible, regard anything that person tells you with a healthy amount of skepticism. Various governments throughout history have made efforts at censorship, but Christianity survived despite considerable persecution by the Romans in the first couple of centuries AD, and it's always possible to go back to the earliest sources, so any removal of scripture would have to have taken place before those were written.