A Bible society is an association having as its objective the diffusion of the Scriptures. The first Bible society is believed to have been formed in 1710 at Halle, Saxony. By 1834 that society had distributed 2,754,350 copies of the Bible, and about 2 million copies of the New Testament. The English Bible society, founded in 1780, is known as the Naval and Military Bible Society. In 1792 an association was form in London under the name French Bible Society. The British and Foreign Bible Society, founded in 1804, has promoted the translation and distribution of the Bible in 450 languages and dialects. Bible societies now exist in all parts of the Christian world. The three largest Bible societies in the world, the British and Foreign Bible Society, the American Bible Society, and the National Scottish Bible Society, have, since they were founded, distributed billions of copies of the Bible and other Christian books.
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