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The Reformation · 1526, revised 1534
The New Testament in English
William Tyndale · c. 1494–1536
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What it is
The first English New Testament translated from Greek and printed, smuggled into England in bales of cloth and publicly burned by the bishop of London.
Why it lasted
Roughly eighty per cent of the King James New Testament is Tyndale's wording. He was strangled and burned in 1536.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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