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Ulfilas and the Anglo-Saxon of Bede, are set

down as numbering about fifty.”—What is

the Bible Society? rev. ed., 1904, 23.

The American Bible Society reported a

distribution from 1816 through 1955 of

481,149,365 Bibles, Testaments, and

portions of Testaments. To this may be added

over 600,000,000 Bibles or Scripture

portions distributed by the British and

Foreign Bible Society. During the year 1955

alone the American Bible Society distributed

a grand total of 23,819,733 Bibles,

Testaments, and portions of Testaments

throughout the world.

The Scriptures, in whole or in part, have been

printed, as of December, 1955, in 1,092

languages; and new languages are constantly

being added.