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When James I. succeeded Elizabeth in 1603, there were at least three popular versions of The Bible at that time: The Geneva Bible, the Great Bible and the Bishop's Bible.

His instructions to the translators were that the ordinary Bible read in the Church, commonly called the Bishops' Bible, was to be followed and as little altered as the original will permit. These translations to be used, when they agree better with the text than the Bishops' Bible: Tyndale's, Coverdale's, Matthew's [Rogers'], Whitchurch's [Cranmer's] and the Geneva Bible. In other words, the translators were to use existing English translations to the extent possible, given their acknowledged flaws, comparing the Bishops' Bible to the available Greek copies and, if necessary, make improvements by reference to lesser versions or by using direct translation where necessary.

The translators of the King James Version did not use the Hebrew texts for the Old Testament, and would have had great difficulty in reading them. Even the Greek texts available to them, for both the Old Testament and the New Testament, were not the same as earlier Greek texts since discovered.

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