LDS Church breaks with long-standing tradition, embraces modern English translations of the Bible

Since almost the founding of their faith, English-speaking Latter-day Saints have stuck loyally by the side of the King James translation of the Bible, a version known for archaic and lofty language ...
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Religion: Wycliffe to Tyndale to James

More than 60% of the King James version of the Bible was lifted word for word from earlier translations, reported Charles C. Butterworth in The Literary Lineage of the King James Bible (University of ...