The King James Version of the Bible (3)

THE RULES AND METHODOLOGY FOLLOWED Great care was taken to give the translators guidelines to follow in their work of translating. If all these men were going to work together as a harmonious whole, they would need some very strict rules to follow. The scheme for the entire work was set down in the form of fifteen specific rules. To name just a few: 1) The "Bishops' Bible," the official version of the church, was to be as little altered as the truth of the originals permitted. 2) There were to...