The Gustav II Adolf Bible (; officially: ''Biblia, Thet är: All then Helgha Scrifft, På Swensko. Effter förre Bibliens Text, oförandrat'') was published in 1618 during

Gustav II Adolf Gustavus Adolphus (9 December ld Style and New Style dates, N.S 19 December15946 November ld Style and New Style dates, N.S 16 November1632), also known in English as Gustav II Adolf or Gustav II Adolph, was King of Sweden from 1611 to ...

's reign and was a revised version of

Gustav Vasa Bible The Gustav Vasa Bible ( sv, Gustav Vasas bibel) is the common name of the Swedish Bible translation published in 1540–41. The full title is as appears on the right: ''Biblia / Thet är / All then Helgha Scrifft / på Swensko''. The translation ...

. One of the aims of the Gustav II Adolf Bible was to make the text more accessible to the reader and to add verse numbers. In this Bible, Luther's four Antilegomena -

Hebrews The terms ''Hebrews'' (Hebrew: / , Modern: ' / ', Tiberian: ' / '; ISO 259-3: ' / ') and ''Hebrew people'' are mostly considered synonymous with the Semitic-speaking Israelites, especially in the pre-monarchic period when they were still no ...

James James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguat ...

, Jude and

Revelation In religion and theology, revelation is the revealing or disclosing of some form of truth or knowledge through communication with a deity or other supernatural entity or entities. Background Inspiration – such as that bestowed by God on the ...

- were separated at the end of the table of content and labeled as " Apocr(yphal) New Testament."{{Cite book, last=Metzger, first=Bruce M., title=The Canon of the New Testament, publisher=Clarendon Press, year=1989, isbn=0-19-826180-2, location=Oxford, pages=244–245, chapter=X. Attempts at Closing the Canon in the West, orig-year=1987

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Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden 1618 in Christianity 1618 books Bible translations into Swedish 1618 in Sweden

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