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he was burnt alive for translating the
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scripture William Tindale a scholar and
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the father of the English Bible
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dedicated his life to translating the
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Bible into English despite it being
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illegal at the time born in the early
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1500s Tindale was determined to make the
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scriptures accessible to everyone
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famously declaring that even a common
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plow boy would know more of the Bible
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than the priests after being denied
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permission by the church Tindale fled to
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Europe where he completed and printed
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1526 thousands of copies were smuggled
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into England but Church authorities
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tried to destroy them Tindale continued
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his work on the Old Testament while
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living in hiding but he was eventually
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betrayed arrested and executed for
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heresy in 1536 at age 42 his final
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prayer Lord open the king of England's
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eyes was answered when English Bibles
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were soon placed in every Church
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tindale's translations became the
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foundation for the King James
