| Revised Version | |
|---|---|
 Outer cover of Revised Version of the Bible, bound in leather with a full yapp. Published by Oxford in 1885. | |
| Full name | English Revised Version |
| Abbreviation | RV[a] |
| OT published | 1885 |
| NT published | 1881 |
| Complete Bible published | 1894 |
| Online as | Revised Version at Wikisource |
| Derived from | 1881 Westcott and Hort New Testament Greek Critical Text (WH) which was based upon the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus manuscripts |
| Translation type | Literal |
| Copyright | Public domain |
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. | |
The Revised Version (RV) or English Revised Version (ERV) of the Bible is a late-19th-century British revision of the King James Version. It was the first (and remains the only) officially authorised and recognised revision of the King James Version in Great Britain. The work was entrusted to over 50 scholars from various denominations in Great Britain. American scholars were invited to co-operate, by correspondence.[1] Its New Testament was published in 1881, its Old Testament in 1885, and its Apocrypha in 1894.[1] The best known of the translation committee members were Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort; their fiercest critics of that period were John William Burgon, George Washington Moon, and George Saintsbury.
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