Editing Revised Version (section)

{{short description|Late 19th-century British revision of the King James Version}}
{{other uses of|King James Version}}
{{Bible translation infobox 
| image = Revised Version Bible 01.JPG
| caption  = Outer cover of Revised Version of the Bible, bound in leather with a full [[Limp binding#Usage|yapp]]. Published by Oxford in 1885.
| translation_title = Revised Version
| full_name = English Revised Version
| abbreviation = RV{{Efn|The Revised Version can also be found abbreviated as the ERV (English Revised Version).}}
| wikisource = Bible (English Revised Version)
| NT_published = 1881
| OT_published = 1885
| complete_bible_published = 1894
| derived_from=[[Westcott and Hort|1881 Westcott and Hort New Testament Greek Critical Text (WH) which was based upon the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus manuscripts]]
| textual_basis =
| translation_type = Literal
| copyright = Public domain
| date = 1885
| genesis_1:1-3=In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
| john_3:16 = For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
|}}
The '''Revised Version''' ('''RV''') or '''English Revised Version''' ('''ERV''') of the [[Bible]] is a late-19th-century British revision of the [[King James Version]]. It was the first (and remains the only) officially authorised and recognised revision of the King James Version in [[Great Britain]]. The work was entrusted to over 50 scholars from various denominations in Great Britain. American scholars were invited to co-operate, by correspondence.<ref name="Revised Version - CAMBRIDGE">Revised Version - CAMBRIDGE - At the University Press - London: Cambridge University Press, 200 Euston Road, N.W., Synopsis</ref> Its [[New Testament]] was published in 1881, its [[Old Testament]] in 1885, and its [[Apocrypha]] in 1894.<ref name="Revised Version - CAMBRIDGE"/> The best known of the translation committee members were [[Brooke Foss Westcott]] and [[Fenton John Anthony Hort]]; their fiercest critics of that period were [[John William Burgon]], [[George Washington Moon]], and [[George Saintsbury]].