There are remarkably few Bible translations into Swedish that have been made before the last two centuries.[1] The Latin common Bible is known to have been used by the Catholic Church during the Christian part of the middle ages, but at least paraphrases in Swedish of some parts of the Bible were made at the time.[2] However, no complete translation has been preserved,[2][1] and the earliest, certainly known, complete Bible was not made until the Reformation, on commission by Gustav Vasa.