Bible translations into Sorbian

The oldest Sorbian Bible version, that of the New Testament of 1547, is extant in a manuscript in the Royal Library at Berlin.

The translator was Miklawš Jakubica,[1] who employed a now-extinct dialect of Lower Sorbian.

In a revised form this version was published by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1860.

Michał Frencel[4] Pastor in Postwitz (Sorbian Budestecy)(d. 1706), translated the New Testament into the Upper Sorbian, and his version was published by his son, Abraham Frencel (Zittau, 1706).

A complete edition of the Bible, the work of different scholars, was first published at Bautzen, 1728.