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Reina Valera

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “first complete edition of the bible in the spanish language”. Today it says “spanish translation of the bible originally published in 1602 when cipriano de valera revised an earlier transl”.
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Reina-Valera , published in 1569 and nicknamed the Bible of the Bear, was the first complete edition of the Bible in the Spanish language , published in Basel, Switzerland .1 Its translator was Casiodoro de Reina, an Independent Protestant . This Bible, as central to the perception of the scriptures in Spanish as the King James Version in English, has undergone numerous revisions, the first of which took place in 1602 under the editorial eye of Cipriano de Valera. This edition was printed in Amsterdam . Next was the revision of 1862 , followed by revisions in 1909 , and 1960 .2 The same movement which promotes the use of the King James Bible in English over all other editions promotes the use of the Reina-Valera 1960 with respect to Spanish.3

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “first complete edition of the bible in the spanish language”. Today it says “spanish translation of the bible originally published in 1602 when cipriano de valera revised an earlier transl”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

first complete edition of the bible in the spanish language

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spanish translation of the bible originally published in 1602 when cipriano de valera revised an earlier transl

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