Karl XII:s Bibel 1873
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The Karl XII:s Bibel began in 1686, when King Charles XI ordered an update of the Swedish translation of 1541, the Gustav Vasa Bible. He died before it was finished, and the work, completed in 1703, took the name of his son, Charles XII. It remained the official Bible read in the Church of Sweden until 1917. This edition follows the 1873 printing of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
It is not a new translation. It was a light revision of the earlier text, changing mostly spelling and punctuation, so it keeps the flavor of the Swedish Bible of the Reformation. The text here comes from an OCR scan of the 1873 printing, spell-checked against a 1976 reprint.
The limits are plain. The spelling is that of nineteenth century Swedish, with forms like hvalar, lefvande, verldena and menniskona, and it uses the plural I for "you". It contains the 66 books, without the Apocrypha. A Swedish reader today will find it harder going than Bibeln 1917.
The text is in the public domain. What it offers beyond Bibeln 1917, which Midvash also carries in Swedish, is the earlier voice: the Bible the Swedish church heard for more than two centuries before the 1917 revision. It serves anyone studying the history of Swedish language and faith, and anyone who wants the same Scripture in the words of earlier generations.