Elizabeth Bible

The Elizabeth Bible (Russian: Елизаветинская Библия, romanized: Yelizavetinskaya Bibliya) is the authorized version of the Bible used by the Russian Orthodox Church.

In 1712, Peter I of Russia issued an ukaz ordering the printed Church Slavonic text to be carefully compared with the Greek of the Septuagint and to be made in every respect conformable to it.

[2] The manuscript of the Old Testament of this revision is in the synodal library at Moscow.

[3] The translation of the Old Testament (excluding Latin Esdras) was mainly based on a manuscript of the Codex Alexandrinus (c. 420) from Brian Walton's London Polyglot (1657).

[4] All later reprints of the Russian Church Bible are based upon this second edition (1756), which, with minor corrections, is the current authorized version of the Russian Church.