Was the Gujarati Bible translated from English, or from Greek & Hebrew?

Rev. J. V. S. Taylor (d. 1881) was a British missionary in India who translated the Bible into Gujarati.

The first LMS missionary to Gujarat, John Taylor (d.1821), had died after completing Matthew. The next was Joseph Taylor (d. 1852), missionary in Belgaum since September, 1820. J. V. S. Taylor was son of Joseph Taylor. His son, Dr. G. P. Taylor remained in India and became first principal of the Stevenson Divinity College, and author of the first complete Gujarati grammar.

J. V. S. arrived in Baroda in 1846 and went with William Clarkson to Mahi Kantha. After Clarkson retired in 1854, the mission was transferred to the Irish Presbyterian Missionary Society in 1858.

A Gujarati translation had been started by the Serampore Mission Press in 1820, and William Carey had contributed to it. James Skinner and William Fyvie of the London Missionary Society continued. These were all superseded by J. V. S. Taylor's 1861 "Old Version" which remains the standard version today. J. V. S. Taylor was the first Christian Missionary to study the rules of Gujarati prosody and write hymns in the idiom, published in 1863.

Indian Bible. Exodus 20:8-11

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