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From: chl@cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey)
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Subject: Re: Bible versions
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Date: 13 Jul 90 09:06:44 GMT
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Thanks for the various texts of John 1. A notable omission was the genuine KJV
text which, to my taste, has not been bettered by anything else. It has a
better rhythm (and this is poetry not prose) and the slightly unusual word
ordering (putting the word "not" at the end, for example) does a lot to point
out the message:
	He was in the world, and the world was made by him,
		And the world knew him not.
	He came unto his own
		And his own received him not.
(Pardon small errors, I am quoting from memory).

However, my question is this. This KJV text was based on even earlier
translations. Does anyone have access to the text of the Tyndale or Coverdale
versions which they would care to post?