Bible Translations

  • 1,400 BC

    The Ten Commandments were given to Moses
  • 995 AD

    Anglo-Saxon versions of the New Testament were produced.
  • 1,384 AD

    John Wycliffe produced the first hand-written complete bible with all 80 books, from the New and Old Testaments, and the Apocrypha.
  • 1455 AD

    Gutenberg invented the printing press, enabling the mass production of books and the first he printed was his bible, in Latin of course.
  • 1,535 AD

    The first complete bible was printed, including all 80 books,
  • 1,539 AD

    The Great Bible was printed, and it was the first bible used publicly that was in the English language.
  • 1560 AD

    The Geneva bible, the first English bible to have numbered verses, was printed.
  • 1611AD

    The King James Bible was printed.
  • 1560 AD

    The first English bible to have numbered verses, was the Geneva bible.
  • 1791 AD

    The first Illustrated bible was published.
  • 1833 AD

    Noah Webster, famous for his dictionary, published his bible in 1833.
  • 1901 AD

    The first major revision of the King Jame Version, the American Standard Version, was published.
  • 1885 AD

    The Apocrypha was officially removed, the books of the bible totaling not 80, but 66 now.
  • 1973

    The New International Version is published.
  • 1990 AD

    The New Revised Standard Version is published, it was criticized for "gender inclusiveness."
  • Morgan Abernathy