PRESENTS

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• Bound to Please

PRESENTS

• The Bible

Vanessa Humphries
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A very brief timeline How did we get the Bible?
1,400 BC The first written Word of God The Ten
Commandments delivered to Moses. 500 BC
Completion of All Original Hebrew Manuscripts
which make up The 39 Books of the Old
Testament. 200 BC Completion of the Septuagint
Greek Manuscripts which contain The 39 Old
Testament Books AND 14 Apocrypha Books. 1st
Century AD Completion of All Original Greek
Manuscripts which make up The 27 Books of the New
Testament. 315 AD Athenasius, the Bishop of
Alexandria, identifies the 27 books of the New
Testament which are today recognized as the canon
of scripture. 382 AD Jerome's Latin Vulgate
Manuscripts Produced which contain All 80 Books
(39 Old Test. 14 Apocrypha 27 New Test).
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Timeline continue
500 AD Scriptures have been Translated into Over
500 Languages. 600 AD LATIN was the Only
Language Allowed for Scripture. 995 AD
Anglo-Saxon (Early Roots of English Language)
Translations of The New Testament
Produced. 1384 AD Wycliffe is the First Person
to Produce a (Hand-Written) manuscript Copy of
the Complete Bible All 80 Books. 1455 AD
Gutenberg Invents the Printing Press Books May
Now be mass-Produced Instead of Individually
Hand-Written. The First Book Ever Printed is
Gutenberg's Bible in Latin.
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QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT ASK

• Why should I read the Bible?
• Entertain
• Inform
• Touch
• Teach

• Why should I buy a Bible? I have one and I dont
  even read it.
• Do you have the right translation?

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TRANSLATIONS
A statistical summary provided by the United
Bible Society World Report. As of 2004, at least
one book of the bible has been translated into
2,377 of the approximately 6,900 languages listed
by SILInternational, a faith-based linguistic
services organization which studies lesser-known
languages.
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English translations includes

• AMP - Amplified Bible      
• NASB - New American Standard Bible      
• ASV - American Standard Version      
• NCV - New Century Version      
• CEV - Contemporary English Version      
• NIV - New International Version      
• ESV - English Standard Version      
• NJB - New Jerusalem Bible      

• GNT - Good News Translation      
• NKJV - New King James Version      
• HCSB - Holman Christian Standard Bible      
• NLT - New Living Translation      
• KJV - King James Version      
• NRSV - New Revised Standard Version      
• NAB - New American Bible      
• RSV - Revised Standard Version

List of foreign translations

• Afrikaans
• Chinese
• Croatian
• Czech
• Dutch
• English
• Esperanto
• Finnish
• French

• German
• Gothic
• Greek (Modern)
• Gullah
• Hawaiian Hungarian
• Italian
• Jèrriais

• Klingon
• Latin
• Manx
• Polish
• Romanian
• Spanish

• Slavonic
• Slovene
• Swahili
• Swedish
• Welsh

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Comments You Might Make

• I dont have time, its way too big or I will
  start but just cant finish.

• Romance

• Setting the mood

• Reflective

• Musicians in the house

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IN CONCLUSION

• The Bible can be
• Comfort
• Values and wisdom
• Fortify and encourage
• Just plain fun