The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testament: Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty’s Special Command

Oxford: The University Press, 1935.

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The Oxford Lectern Bible was made because the King of England could not find an English Bible of appropriate grandeur as the gift of the English people for the chapel which the Canadian government would build in Flanders’ fields where in World War I, so many of their young had died.

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