[2] His father took great care about his education, and already at the age of five years John could read the Bible in Hebrew.
[2] When he was about thirty-six years old, on 13 October 1596, he married the daughter of Francis Holt, rector at Boxworth, after the death of her father, and he took over this post.
[4] Serious financial troubles followed, and he had to sell his library; his scholarly reputation brought him tasks, but they were poorly rewarded.
[citation needed] In 1604 he was recruited for one of the Cambridge committees set up to translate the Bible into English.
[5] The renderings of the Vulgate are in the main defended, but Bois frequently proposes more exact translations of his own.