The Torah is the first section of the Tanach (Jewish Bible) and is the earliest text.
The Holy Bible is the sacred text for Christians.
The first five books of the "Bible", in their entirety, are a translation of the plain text of the Torah, in its entirety.
there is no bible :P
No extant copy of the original text of any portion of the Bible remains. Just later transcribed copies.
John 3:16 is considered as the golden text of the Bible.
Bible or Holy Bible
The word text does not change its meaning just because it's in the Bible instead of another book. Text means the written words.
If you are referring to the Hebrew Bible, the text is not made from translations. Hebrew is the original language of the Bible. Translations of the Hebrew Bible are made by many people in many different ways.
John Brown's Self-Interpreting Bible was first published in 1778. It included notes and commentary to help readers better understand the text of the Bible.
The first printed Bible was the Gutenberg Bible. (It wasn't printed in English.) I personally use the King James Version. If you want to get extremely technical, the original text for all Bibles comes from mainly the original Greek and Hebrew writings.
That text is from Plato. It's not in the Bible.