The first translation into

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was by Francysk Skaryna. He printed his first book titled ''The

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'', in the

Old Belarusian Ruthenian ( Belarusian: руская мова; Ukrainian: руська мова; Ruthenian: руска(ѧ) мова; also see other names) is an exonymic linguonym for a closely-related group of East Slavic linguistic varieties, particularly th ...

recension of

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on August 6, 1517 in Prague. He continued his printing work in Vilnius. The culmination of his life's work was a printing of the Bible in the Old Belarusian recension of Church Slavonic. From 1517 to 1519 he printed 23 books of the Bible. Belarusian bible was the first translation in an

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and one of the first among European languages. In 2000 a translation from an Old-Slavic Bible was executed by well known Belarusian slavist and translator Vasil Syargeevich Syomukha, with the help of Metropolitan of Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Nickolaj and missionary of Global Missionary Ministries George Rapetsky (Canada). * Francysk Skaryna, 1517 *

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, 1926, 1931 *

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, 1931 * Vasil Syargeevich Syomukha,Belarusian Bible
/ref> 2003 * George Rapetsky, Canadian, 2003

References

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