How was the King James Version translated?

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Whosoever Will, A Mile of Witnesses: The King James was not handed down from heaven in English. It was the work of forty-seven scholars who knew the original tongues, working in companies, each section checked by the others, the final editing carried by men like John Bois, who read Hebrew at five and studied Greek from four in the morning, and Lancelot Andrewes, a master of fifteen languages who gave hours a day to prayer. They built on the Byzantine Greek and on the blood-bought English of William Tyndale, strangled and burned for putting Scripture into the plowboy's tongue, whose last prayer was, Lord, open the King of England's eyes. Their own preface said the aim was not to make a new translation, but to make a good one better. So the King James is the best English fruit of the best Greek text.

How was the King James Version translated?

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