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The English Revised Version (ERV) is a late 19th-century British revision of the King James Version (KJV) of 1611. It was the first and remains the only officially authorized and recognized revision of the King James Bible (KJV). The work was entrusted to over 50 scholars from various denominations in Britain. US scholars were also invited to contribute by correspondence. The New Testament was published in 1881, the Old Testament in 1885, and the Apocrypha in 1894.

At the time of the ERV's publication, the nearly 300-year old KJV was still the only viable English Bible in Victorian England. The ERV, therefore, is regarded as the forerunner of the entire modern translation tradition. And it was considered more accurate than the KJV in a number of verses. For example, the Greek text used to translate the New Testament was believed by some to be of higher reliability than the Textus Receptus used for the KJV.