However, references to specific published versions of sacred texts should be italicized, such as the 'Authorized King James Version' or the 'New Edition of the Babylinian Talmud'.

The dragon myth was further established by the 'Authorized King James Version', which uses the words "serpent", "dragon" and "Devil" in a fairly interchangeable manner.

The 21st Century King James Version is a minor update of the King James Version.

Here is the King James Version:

Delays and King James Version (1999-2001)

For centuries the King James (or "Authorized") Version of 1611 sufficed.

The 1982 New King James Version rendered it:

The Psalm is well known for its reference to human life expectancy being 70 or 80 ("threescore years and ten", or "if by reason of strength... fourscore years" in the King James Version).

There it was, in the King James Version of 1611, Ecclesiastes 9:11: ". . . the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong . . . but time and chance happeneth to them all."

The King James Version.