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Coverdale Bible 1535
| 35:1 | And Moses gathered all the cogregacion of ye childre of Israel together, and sayde vnto them: This is it, yt the LORDE hath commaunded you to do: |
| 35:2 | Sixe dayes shall ye worke, but the seuenth daye shall ye kepe holy: a Sabbath of the LORDES rest. Who so euer doeth eny worke therin, shall dye. |
| 35:3 | Ye shal kyndle no fyre vpon the Sabbath daye in all youre dwellynges. |
| 35:4 | And Moses sayde vnto ye whole congregacion of the children of Israel: This is it, that the LORDE hath commaunded: |
| 35:5 | Geue from amonge you Heue offerynges vnto ye LORDE, so that euery one brynge the LORDES Heue offerynge with a fre hert: golde, syluer, brasse, |
| 35:6 | yalowe sylke, scarlet, purple, whyte sylke, and goates hayre, |
| 35:7 | reed skynnes of rammes, doo skynnes, and Fyrre tre, |
| 35:8 | oyle for the lampes, and spyces for the anoyntinge oyle and for swete incense. |
| 35:9 | Onix stones, and stones to be set in ye ouerbody cote, and for the brestlappe. |
| 35:10 | And who so is wyse of hert amonge you, let him come, & make what the LORDE hath commaunded: |
| 35:11 | namely,the Habitacion with the tent & couerynge therof, the rynges, bordes, barres, pilers & sokettes: |
| 35:12 | The Arke wt the staues therof, the Mercyseate & the vayle: |
| 35:13 | the table with his staues & all his apparell: & the shewbred: |
| 35:14 | The cadilsticke of light and his apparell, and his lampes, & the oyle for the lightes: |
| 35:15 | The altare of incense with his staues: The anoyntynge oyle and spyces for incense: The hangynge before ye Tabernacle dore: |
| 35:16 | The alter of burntofferynges with his brasen gredyron, staues and all his apparell: The lauer with his fote: |
| 35:17 | The hanginges of the courte, with the pilers and sokettes therof, & the hangynge of the courte dore: |
| 35:18 | The nales of the habitacion and of ye courte with their coardes: |
| 35:19 | The mynistringe garmentes for the seruyce in the Holy, ye holy vestimentes of Aaron the prest wt the vestimentes of his sonnes for ye prestes office. |
| 35:20 | Then wente all the congregacion of the childre of Israel out fro Moses, |
| 35:21 | & euery one brought the gift of his hert: & all that they wolde of fre will, the same brought they for an Heue offerynge vnto the LORDE for ye worke of the Tabernacle of witnesse, & for all the seruyce therof, & for the holy vestimetes. |
| 35:22 | Both men & wemen that were of a wyllynge hert, brought bracelettes, earynges, rynges & gyrdels, and all maner Iewels of golde: Euery man also brought golde for Waue offerynges vnto the LORDE. |
| 35:23 | And who so euer foude by him yalow sylke, scarlet, purple, whyte sylke, goates hayre, reed skynnes of rames, and Doo skynnes, brought it. |
| 35:24 | And who so euer houe vp syluer & brasse, brought it for ye Heue offerynge vnto the LORDE. And who so euer founde Fyrre tre by him, brought it for all maner of worke of the Gods seruyce. |
| 35:25 | And soch wemen as were wyse herted, spanne with their hades, and brought their sponne worke of yalow sylke, scarlet, purple, and whyte sylke. |
| 35:26 | And soch wemen as had hye vnderstondinge in wysdome, spanne goates hayre. |
| 35:27 | As for ye prynces, they brought Onix stones, and set stones, for ye ouerbody coate, and for the brestlappe, |
| 35:28 | and spyces, and oyle for ye lightes, and for the anoyntinge oyle, and for swete incense. |
| 35:29 | Thus the children of Israel brought fre wyllynge offerynges, both man and weme, for all maner of worke, that the LORDE had commaunded by Moses, to be made. |
| 35:30 | And Moses saide vnto the childre of Israel: Beholde, ye LORDE hath called by name Bezaleel ye sonne of Vri, ye sonne of Hur of the trybe of Iuda, |
| 35:31 | & hath fylled him wt the sprete of God, that he maye haue wysdome, vnderstondinge, & knowlege for all maner of worke, |
| 35:32 | to worke connyngly in golde, syluer & brasse, |
| 35:33 | to graue precious stones & to set them, to carue in wodd, to make all maner of connynge workes, |
| 35:34 | and hath geue instruccion in his hert, both him and Ahaliab the sonne of Ahisamach of ye trybe of Dan. |
| 35:35 | These hath he fylled wt wysdome of hert, to make all maner of worke, to carue, to broder, to worke with nedle worke, with yalow sylke, scarlet, purple and whyte sylke, and with weeuynge to make all maner of worke, and to deuyse connynge workes. |
Coverdale Bible 1535
The Coverdale Bible, compiled by Myles Coverdale and published in 1535, was the first complete English translation of the Bible to contain both the Old and New Testament and translated from the original Hebrew and Greek. The later editions (folio and quarto) published in 1539 were the first complete Bibles printed in England. The 1539 folio edition carried the royal license and was, therefore, the first officially approved Bible translation in English.
Tyndale never had the satisfaction of completing his English Bible; but during his imprisonment, he may have learned that a complete translation, based largely upon his own, had actually been produced. The credit for this achievement, the first complete printed English Bible, is due to Miles Coverdale (1488-1569), afterward bishop of Exeter (1551-1553).
The details of its production are obscure. Coverdale met Tyndale in Hamburg, Germany in 1529, and is said to have assisted him in the translation of the Pentateuch. His own work was done under the patronage of Oliver Cromwell, who was anxious for the publication of an English Bible; and it was no doubt forwarded by the action of Convocation, which, under Archbishop Cranmer's leading, had petitioned in 1534 for the undertaking of such a work.
Coverdale's Bible was probably printed by Froschover in Zurich, Switzerland and was published at the end of 1535, with a dedication to Henry VIII. By this time, the conditions were more favorable to a Protestant Bible than they had been in 1525. Henry had finally broken with the Pope and had committed himself to the principle of an English Bible. Coverdale's work was accordingly tolerated by authority, and when the second edition of it appeared in 1537 (printed by an English printer, Nycolson of Southwark), it bore on its title-page the words, "Set forth with the King's most gracious license." In licensing Coverdale's translation, King Henry probably did not know how far he was sanctioning the work of Tyndale, which he had previously condemned.
In the New Testament, in particular, Tyndale's version is the basis of Coverdale's, and to a somewhat less extent this is also the case in the Pentateuch and Jonah; but Coverdale revised the work of his predecessor with the help of the Zurich German Bible of Zwingli and others (1524-1529), a Latin version by Pagninus, the Vulgate, and Luther. In his preface, he explicitly disclaims originality as a translator, and there is no sign that he made any noticeable use of the Greek and Hebrew; but he used the available Latin, German, and English versions with judgment. In the parts of the Old Testament which Tyndale had not published he appears to have translated mainly from the Zurich Bible. [Coverdale's Bible of 1535 was reprinted by Bagster, 1838.]
In one respect Coverdale's Bible was groundbreaking, namely, in the arrangement of the books of the. It is to Tyndale's example, no doubt, that the action of Coverdale is due. His Bible is divided into six parts -- (1) Pentateuch; (2) Joshua -- Esther; (3) Job -- "Solomon's Balettes" (i.e. Canticles); (4) Prophets; (5) "Apocrypha, the books and treatises which among the fathers of old are not reckoned to be of like authority with the other books of the Bible, neither are they found in the canon of the Hebrew"; (6) the New Testament. This represents the view generally taken by the Reformers, both in Germany and in England, and so far as concerns the English Bible, Coverdale's example was decisive.