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Quaker Bible
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A new and literal translation of all the books of the Old and New Testament; with notes critical and explanatory
Complete Bible published
1764
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Public domain
Genesis 1:1–3
God created the Heaven and the Earth at the Beginning. The Earth However was vacant and void, and Darkneſs overwhelmed the Deep; but the Spirit of God hovered atop of the water.Firſt God ſaid, Let there be light; which there was accordingly.
John 3:16
For God thus loved the World, ſo that he gave his only begotten Son, that every one who believes in him may not periſh, but have everlaſting Life.
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The Quaker Bible, officially A new and literal translation of all the books of the Old and New Testament; with notes critical and explanatory, is the 1764 translation of the Christian Bible into English by Anthony Purver (1702–1777), a Quaker. The translation was published in two Volumes in London by W. Richardson and S. Clark in 1764, but is not generally regarded as successful.
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