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search Title page of the original 1637 Statenvertaling.  The
Statenvertaling (Dutch for States Translation) or Statenbijbel
(Dutch for States Bible) is the first Bible translation from the
original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek languages to the Dutch
language, ordered by the government of the Protestant Dutch
Republic first published in 1637.[1]  The first complete Dutch
Bible was printed in Antwerp in 1526 by Jacob van Liesveldt.[2]
This translation and other existing Dutch Bibles were merely
translations of other translations. Furthermore, the translation
from Martin Luther was widely used, but it had a Lutheran
interpretation. At the Synod of Dort in 1618/19, it was
therefore deemed necessary to have a new translation, accurately
based on the original languages in imitation of the King James
Bible from 1611. The synod requested the States-General of the
Netherlands to commission it.    Guidelines for
translation[edit]  The Statenvertaling was written w