In the King James version of the Bible, Genesis 1:28, God tells Adam and Eve to "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth." I'm puzzled by the use of the word "replenish" here. Its ...

When U.S. Presidents are sworn into office on Inauguration Day, they typically—though not always—take their oaths with a hand on a Bible. When President-elect Donald Trump was first sworn into ...

Begat: The King James Bible And The English Language By David Crystal Hardcover, 320 pages Oxford University Press, USA List price: $24.95. Read An Excerpt "I found 257," Crystal reports.

Another exhibition highlight is the earliest known fragment of the Book of Genesis, which comes from the Dead Sea Scrolls. ... The King James Bible was commissioned by King James I in 1604, ...

The impact of the King James Bible, which was published 400 years ago, is still being felt on the way we speak and write, says Stephen Tomkins.

In the words of the King James Bible, which was the version then current, these were, first, Genesis IX, 18–27: “And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth ...

Vatican City, Feb 28, 2012 / 11:12 am. A new interfaith exhibition that opens this week at the Vatican reveals how the roots of the 1611 King James Bible are almost entirely Catholic – despite ...

Here is the moment, as told in Genesis 9:24-25 (New King James Version): “So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son [Ham] had done unto him. Then he said: ‘Cursed be Canaan.