The Elizabeth Bible (russian: Елизаветинская Библия) is the authorized version of the

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used by the

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. The Elizabeth Bible was the third complete printed edition of the Bible in Church Slavonic, published in

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in 1751 under and with the assistance of the Russian Empress Elizabeth (the previous ones being the

Ostrog Bible The Ostrog Bible ( uk, Острозька Біблія, translit=Ostroz’ka Bibliya; russian: Острожская Библия, translit=Ostrozhskaya Bibliya) was one of the earliest East Slavic translations of the Bible and the first compl ...

of 1581 and the ). In 1712,

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Peter the Great issued an

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ordering the printed Church Slavonic text to be carefully compared with the Greek of the

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and to be made in every respect conformable to it. The revision was completed in 1724 and was ordered to be printed, but the death of Peter (1725) prevented the execution of the order. The manuscript of the Old Testament of this revision is in the synodal library at Moscow. Under the Empress Elizabeth the work of revision was resumed by an ukaz issued in 1744, and in 1751 a revised Elizabeth Bible, as it is called, was published. Three other editions were published in 1756, 1757, and 1759, the second somewhat revised.И. Е. Евсеев
''Очерки по истории славянского перевода Библии''
Petersburg 2009. In the main the translation of the Old Testament (excluding Latin Esdras) was based on a manuscript of the

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(circa 420) from Brian Walton's London Polyglot (1657). Third Esdras was translated from

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. Also translators used

Codex Vaticanus The Codex Vaticanus ( The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Vat. gr. 1209), designated by siglum B or 03 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 1 ( von Soden), is a fourth-century Christian manuscript of a Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Greek Old ...

(circa 350), Editio Complutensis (1514-1517), Editio Aldina (1518) and Editio Sixtina (1587) in their work (See Septuagint#Printed editions).Библия. IV. Переводы
// Православная энциклопедия All later reprints of the Russian Church Bible are based upon this second edition (1756), which, with minor corrections, is the current authorized version of the Russian Church.Д. Г. Добыкин, ''Лекции по введению в Священное Писание Ветхого Завета'', St.Petersburg, Санкт-Петербургская православная духовная академия, 2012, p. 70.

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Bible in Church Slavonic text of the Elizabeth Bible
(PDF texts in Church Slavonic; webpage in Russian)
Ostrog Bible
(Church Slavonic text with parallel text in Ukrainian; PDF-version of R. Turkonyak's edition) * Bible in Church Slavonic language - Sinodal redactio
(Wikisource)(PDF)(iPhone)(Android)
{{Authority control Early printed Bibles Bible translations into Church Slavonic 1751 books 1750s in the Russian Empire Government reform of Peter the Great

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