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eleven times and uses both Passover and
the word Easter?
The 1537 Matthew's Bible and the 1539
Great Bible use the word Passover 14 times
and the word Easter 15 times. In the 1568
Bishop's Bible, Easter appears in both John
11:55 and Acts 12:4. I have all these Bibles,
by the way. The Geneva Bible in 1557 uses
the word Easter in Acts 12, verse 4, but the
1560 version changes the word Easter to
Passover, and Martin Luther's German
translation uses the word oster, the German
equivalent to the English word Easter. Now,
what are we saying? The word Easter was
used for the first time in an English Bible in
1525, and the words Easter lamb are also
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