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  2. List of nations mentioned in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    India [24] Israel. Italy (Italy generally [25] and the cities of Syracuse [26] and Rome specifically [27]) Illyricum (territories near the Adriatic from modern day Slovenia to Albania) [28]

  3. List of modern names for biblical place names - Wikipedia

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    While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later ...

  4. World English Bible - Wikipedia

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    The World English Bible ( WEB) is an English translation of the Bible freely shared online. [5] The translation work began in 1994 [4] and was deemed complete in 2020. [2] Created by Michael Paul Johnson with help from volunteers, [1] [6] the WEB is an updated revision of the American Standard Version from 1901. [4]

  5. New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - Wikipedia

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    History. Until the release of the New World Translation, Jehovah's Witnesses in English-speaking countries primarily used the King James Version. [ 21][ 22][ 19] According to the publishers, one of the main reasons for producing a new translation was that most Bible versions in common use, including the Authorized Version (King James), employed ...

  6. New English Translation - Wikipedia

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    Modern Christian (1800– ) Modern Jewish (1853– ) Bible portal. v. t. e. The New English Translation ( NET) is a free, "completely new" [2] English translation of the Bible, "with 60,932 translators' notes" [2] sponsored by the Biblical Studies Foundation and published by Biblical Studies Press.

  7. Bible translations into the languages of Europe - Wikipedia

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    Since Peter Waldo's Franco-Provençal translation of the New Testament in the late 1170s, and Guyart des Moulins' Bible Historiale manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages, there have been innumerable vernacular translations of the scriptures on the European continent, greatly aided and catalysed by the development of the printing press, first invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the late 1430s.

  8. Names of Rus', Russia and Ruthenia - Wikipedia

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    The most common theory about the origins of Russians is the Germanic version. The name Rus ', like the Proto-Finnic name for Sweden (*Ruotsi), supposed to be descended from an Old Norse term for "the men who row" (rods-) as rowing was the main method of navigating the rivers of Eastern Europe, and that it could be linked to the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen or Roden, as it was known in ...

  9. Contemporary English Version - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Contemporary English Version or CEV (also known as Bible for Today's Family) is a translation of the Bible into English, published by the American Bible Society. An anglicized version was produced by the British and Foreign Bible Society, which includes metric measurements for the Commonwealth market.