The original Bible has been translated into hundreds of different languages.
It has been translated into English many times.
The most popular English translations are the Authorized Version of 1611 (called the King James Bible because James I was then King of England), used in Protestant Churches, and the "Douay" version (so called becaused it was first published in the town of Douay, France, in 1609), used by Roman Catholics.
Revised versions of the Protestant Bible have come out from time to time, the latest having been published in 1951.
A new edition of the Catholic Bible was published in 1952.
There have been many other translations into English.
Edgar J.
Goodspeed translated the New Testament into simple American language in 1923, and in 1927 this was added to a translation of the Old Testament by several scholars, edited by J.
M.
P.
Smith.
In the same years James Moffatt, in England, made a new translation from the Greek.
A translation by Monsignor Ronald Knox was published in 1949.
They are usually published as text Bibles and reference Bibles.
The first one gives only the words of the Bible itself, while the second one adds thousands of notes that show how different passages of the Bible are related to one another.
There are tens of thousands of books about the Bible.
A concordance is an index that shows where every important word or verse in the Bible is to be found.
Many Bibles have special indexes, reading guides, maps, and other features that are called "helps.
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