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In the Middle Ages the Catholic church held the attitude that Bible reading should be confined to the informed and intelligent; it was highly undesirable to allow the word of God to run riot through an uninformed populace.

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The King James Bible (1611) was written by six committees. Over 90 percent came from William Tyndale's English translation.