and passed on from congress to congress itself and reviewed in which they gave robert aitken permission to print this bible. this would be the first complete english bible ever printed in america, the only bible to receive congressional authorization to be printed by robert aitken knowing that the crown held rights to english text he included the congressional authorization in each and every one of his bibles therefore as united states citizen at the time knowing that it was forbidden to own a bible not produced by the crown, you can now see that your government has allowed you to be able to own this particular bible. and so not only did he include that in the text but we've also included the original congressional authorization showing that congress did, indeed, word for word that robert aitken included into his text. one of the other things that i find amusing about the bible, aitken bible is in the front page he tells you how to find him. it's three doors down above the coffee shop and so to me apparently there was only one starbucks at the time and in philadelphia, but i just find t

the only bible to receive congressional authorization to be printed by robert aitken. he learned that the crown literally held the rights to the english text and included the congressional authorization in each and every one of theti bibles. he knew that it was permitted to own c a bible not produced by te crown. [inaudible] that only did he include that in the text but he included the original congressional authorization [inaudible] one of the things i find amusing about the bible is that on the front page he tells you how to find him. it's three down above the coffee shop. apparently there is only one starbucks at the time in philadelphia but i find that amusing. if you comee to the coffee shop you can find his job. when you look at the particular authorization you see the name of charles thompson and he's one of american on sunday heroes but he's the very first secretary of the continental congress and he signed the authorization for robert aitken to print the bible. when charles thompson retires he was a group of scholars himself and heteis himself would produce fi