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b'For many families in the centuries since the King James Bible was completed, it was the only book they owned. Most learned to read from the well-worn pages of the family Bible and found their language shaped forever by the words they read. Simply put, the King James Bible has influenced the English language more than any book ever written and has done so completely out of proportion to what a single book ought to be able to do. We often do not even realize how many of our proverbs and maxims are direct quotes or allusions to this copy of God\\u2019s Word. How many times have you uttered \\u201can eye for an eye\\u201d or \\u201cfell flat on his face\\u201d or \\u201cthe salt of the earth\\u201d or asked \\u201cAm I my brother\\u2019s keeper?\\u201d without even thinking of how you know those words? Without the King James Bible, there would have been no Paradise Lost, no Pilgrim\\u2019s Progress, no Handel\\u2019s Messiah, no old Negro spirituals, and no Gettysburg Address. How did we come to possess this remarkable book?'