Excerpt from The Two Bibles: Or Scholarship and Inspiration Compared Dear Reader, this Work is not got up to find fault with the com mon Bible, or Authorized Version, but with the hope that by read ing it you may have more faith in the book of books than ever, and that you may read it more understandingly. Passages from the King James, or Authorized Version, are given the first place in the comparison. Quotations from the Inspired Translation are given the second place in the comparison, and the punctuation is given just as it is in each of the Bibles. In the reign of King James of England it took forty-seven schol ars seven years to translate the common Bible. They had some former translations to refer to and many manuscripts, and plenty of wealth at their command. The Inspired Translation of the Bible is a translation, or correct tion of the Common Bible, by Joseph Smith, by revelation from God. He began the translation in June 1830, and finished it in July 1833. He was then twenty~eight years old. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.