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The Reformation · 1640
The Bay Psalm Book
Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld
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What it is
The psalms turned into metre for singing, with a preface admitting the verse is rough because fidelity to the Hebrew mattered more than polish.
Why it lasted
The first book printed in British North America, and the songbook of New England for a century.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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