So that, for people who could not read Latin, they were able to read the word of god for themselves in their own language.
The King James Version of the Bible was translated in 1611.
Saint Jerome translated The Bible.
William Morgan translated the whole Bible in 1588. But William Salisbury translated the New testament in 1567.
St. Jerome first translated the Bible and it was into Latin.
The Bible has been translated into the most languages by the United Bible Societies, with over 700 languages.
Saint Jerome first translated the Bible from the original languages into Latin.
The bible was translated into into the samoan language in 1830. Was called the " TUSI PAIA ".
The first book to be translated into Maori was the Bible, specifically the Gospel of Matthew, which was translated by Samuel Marsden in 1815.
Tyndale translated the Bible into English from a Latin translation; the Bible was originally written in Hebrew and Greek.
The Jersualem Bible was translated from the ancient texts, but compared to La Bible de Jerusalem and published in 1966 so it was translated in the late 1950's and the early 1960's.
The Jersualem Bible was translated from the ancient texts, but compared to La Bible de Jerusalem and published in 1966 so it was translated in the late 1950's and the early 1960's.
William Tyndale translated the Bible into the English language. Martin Luther did it into German.