ENGLISH VERSION
Presently, most passages are not translated into English again as those are easily located and available.
But we are working on adding that.
At first, we will simply provide a common English version.
Later, we hope to include more literal breakdowns of the Cherokee in order for those studying the language to be assisted.
Meanwhile, we are adding English Versions to the site.
Choosing an English Version to post along with the Cherokee came down to money and copyright law.
We chose what is available and in the public domain.
The KJV is a popular choice for that. It is available on most portions on the website.
However, we also looked at the Geneva Bible.
The Geneva Bible was translated into English a good 50+ years BEFORE the KJV existed.
The Geneva Bible was the most widely read and influential English Bible of the 16th and 17th centuries.
It was one of the Bibles taken to America on the Mayflower.
The Geneva Bible is a superb translation, it was the product of the best Protestant scholars of the day and became
the Bible of choice for many of the greatest writers and thinkers of that time.
Men such as William Shakespeare, John Bunyan, and John Milton used the Geneva Bible in their writings.
The Geneva Bible is unique among all other Bibles.
It was the first Bible to use chapters and numbered verses and became the most popular version of its time because of its extensive marginal notes.
These notes, written by Reformation leaders including John Calvin and others, were intended to help explain and interpret the Scriptures for the average reader.
HOW THE GENEVA BIBLE CAME TO BE:
Mary I was Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 until her death in 1558. Her executions of Protestants caused her opponents to give her the sobriquet "Bloody Mary." It was her persecution that caused the Marian Exile which drove 800 English scholars to the European continent, where a number of them gathered in Geneva, Switzerland. There a team of scholars led by William Whittingham, and assisted by Miles Coverdale, Christopher Goodman, Anthony Gilby, John Knox, and Thomas Sampson, produced The Geneva Bible, based on Greek and Hebrew manuscripts and a revision of William Tyndale's New Testament, which first appeared in 1526. The Geneva Bible New Testament was published in 1557, with the complete Bible appearing in 1560.
In 2006, Tolle Lege Press released a version of the 1599 Geneva Bible with modern spellings as part of its 1599 Geneva Bible restoration project. The original cross references were retained as well as the study notes by the Protestant Reformation leaders. In addition, the Old English glossary was included in the updated version.
MORE:
The Geneva Bible was the first to divide chapters into verses. It was the Geneva Bible (rather than the King James Bible) that was preferred by the Puritans who colonized New England, and the Pilgrims probably brought the Geneva Bible with them on the Mayflower. One reason the Puritans preferred the Geneva Bible was due to its thorough annotations.