Several Bibles influenced the translation of the King James "Version" of the Bible.
One very influential Bible was the Bishop's Bible.
The Bishops' Bible was an English translation of the Bible produced under the authority of the established Church of England in 1568. It was substantially revised in 1572, and this revised edition was to be prescribed as the base text for the Authorized King James Version of 1611.
The translators of the King James Version were instructed to take the 1602 edition of the Bishops' Bible as their basis, although several other existing translations were taken into account. After it was published in 1611, the King James Version soon took the Bishops' Bible's place as the de facto standard of the Church of England.
The preface of the “original” King James says, ““Truly, good Christian Reader, we never thought from the beginning, that we should need to make a new Translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one ... but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones, one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against; that hath been our endeavor, that our mark.”
- Preface to the King James Bible
Wow! Sounds like the King James translators sought to do what other translators and translations do today. Take the original text and make it clear and make a good one better!
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