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31. Let's travel back to 1603: King James I, who had ruled Scotland, ascended to the throne of England.

32. King James I was a Protestant and he passed severe laws against Catholics.

33. The locutions of the King James Bible echo through our literature so pervasively that we often take them for granted.

34. But if you trace back who we are, how we speak, how we think, many of those things have their origins in the King James Bible.

35. If you use an older translation,like the King James Version, anybody else have--what do you have for 19, "To proclaim the year of the Lord's favor," anybody have a different translation?

36. Chapter four. The King James Bible or let there be light reading.

37. But as long we can understand the King James Bible, this four-century-old book will be seen as the voice of God — and the highest poetry of man.

38. The History of English in Ten Minutes. Chapter four. The King James Bible or light there be.

39. New King James Version (NKJV), released in 1982, involved 119 contributors.

40. Many envisioned starting a silk industry in the British colonies in America starting in 1619 under the reign of King James I of England.

41. It updates the vocabulary and grammar of the King James Version, while preserving the classic style and beauty.

42. This landmark work was the basis for the later publication of Luther's German Bible, Tyndale's English Bible, and the King James Version.

43. If the King James Version (KJV) is your main Bible, learn to choose other versions(http://Sentencedict.com), and be able to teach from them.

44. Customers can choose between the traditional King James version of the bible or more up-to-date translations.

45. The History of English in Ten Minutes. Chapter four. The King James Bible or let there be light reading.

46. The King James translation of Leviticus 18:22 says "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."

47. King James draws inspiration from the sight of the bumboat woman frozen in the ice and a carnival is arranged to 'curry favour' with his subjects.

48. The King James Bible, then, was not just the matrix of the American language, but the means of transmitting Jewish history, and the morality of the Hebrew Bible, to the American people.

49. King James I of England Scotland was born at Edinburgh.

50. For instance, the longer Bible verses quoted here are from The New English Bible (published by the Oxford University Press, 1970), replacing the original translations from the King James version.

51. This essay tries to discuss the language features of the King James Bible briefly.

52. So what is wrong with the good old King James Version?

53. Almost as soon as Virginia tobacco began to be shipped in commercial quantities to England, King James I levied a tax on it while agreeing to prohibit the growth of competing tobacco in England.

54. This meant that "the King James Version was something of an acquired taste for Bellow"; more, that "claiming the canonical English version [was]...a conscious act of fashioning an American identity."

55. The answer is that he was drawing, perhaps unconsciously, on the phrase "three score and ten, " which appears 111 times in the King James Bible.

56. She claimed that the Bible (King James Version) was literally inspired.

57. For many people, especially children, reading the King James Version is like reading a foreign language.

58. In 1503, King James IV of Stuart family married the daughter of Henry VII, the king of England.

59. In 1605 Guy Fawkes, a Roman Catholic, and his fellow conspirators attempted to blow up King James I and the Houses of Parliament, as they disagreed with the King's Protestant policies.

60. King James I of England set one up to finance the new colony of Virginia in America in the 17th century.