For those who don’t know, like me, the Aitken Bible was the first English edition of the Bible published in the US. It was approved by the Congress of the Confederation (the government before the Constitution was signed) in 1782.
Congress only issued an approval because the ongoing British blockade during the Revolutionary war was stopping Bibles from being imported how they had been previously and that was leading to protesters saying maybe this whole fight for independence isn’t worth it. It was a wartime PR move.
Also worth noting that this approval happened years before the Bill of Rights was a thing.
For those who don’t know, like me, the Aitken Bible was the first English edition of the Bible published in the US. It was approved by the Congress of the Confederation (the government before the Constitution was signed) in 1782.
Congress only issued an approval because the ongoing British blockade during the Revolutionary war was stopping Bibles from being imported how they had been previously and that was leading to protesters saying maybe this whole fight for independence isn’t worth it. It was a wartime PR move.
Also worth noting that this approval happened years before the Bill of Rights was a thing.