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{{short description|First translation of the Bible into the Czech language}}
{{expand Czech|date=February 2024}}
{{Bible translation infobox
 | image                    = Kralice.jpg
 | caption                  = Bible of Kralice, title page, vol. 1.
 | translation_title        = Kralice Bible
 | fullname                 = ''Biblj ſwatá. To geſt, Kniha w njž se wſſecka Pjſma S. Starého y Nowého Zákona obſahugj'' (1613 one-volume edition)
 | language                 = [[History of the Czech language#Middle Czech|Middle Czech]]
 | abbreviation             = 
 | complete_bible_published = 1593
 | translation_type         = 
 | textual_basis            = 
{{ublist 
|'''NT:''' ''[[Textus Receptus]]'', [[Theodore Beza|Beza]]'s edition {{smaller|(Blahoslav)}} {{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
|'''OT:''' [[Masoretic Text]], [[Plantin Polyglot]] edition {{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
}}
 | copyright                = Public domain due to age
 | genesis_1:1-3            =
 '''Transliteration:'''

''Na počátku ſtwořil Bůh nebe a zemi. Země pak byla neſličná a puſtá; a tma byla nad propastj; a Duch Božj wznáſſel se nad wodami. I řekl Bůh: Buď ſwětlo. I bylo ſwětlo.''

'''Transcription:'''

Na počátku stvořil Bůh nebe a zemi. Země pak byla nesličná a pustá, a tma byla nad propastí, a Duch Boží vznášel se nad vodami. I řekl Bůh: Buď světlo! I bylo světlo.
 | john_3:16                =
 '''Transliteration:'''

''Nebo tak Bůh milowal ſwět, že Syna ſwého gednorozeného dal, aby každý, kdož wěří v něho, nezahynul, ale měl žiwot wěčný.''

'''Transcription:'''

Nebo tak Bůh miloval svět, že Syna svého jednorozeného dal, aby každý, kdož věří v něho, nezahynul, ale měl život věčný.
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[[File:Mucha Skola Ivancice.jpg|thumb|The Printing of the Bible of Kralice in Ivančice (1914), by [[Alphonse Mucha]], ''[[The Slav Epic]]'']]
The '''Bible of Kralice''', also called the '''Kralice Bible''' ({{langx|cs|Bible kralická}}), was the first complete translation of the [[Bible]] from the original languages into [[Czech language|Czech]]. Translated by the [[Moravian Church|Unity of the Brethren]] and printed in [[Kralice nad Oslavou]], the first edition had six volumes and was published between 1579 and 1593. The third edition, from 1613, is classic and till this day widely known and used Czech translation. The [[New Testament]] had been translated from the Greek by [[Jan Blahoslav]] and published in 1564.

{{Listen|filename=Ten Biblical Songs by Antonin Dvorak.ogg|title=Ten Biblical songs (Czech: ''Biblické Písně'') by Antonín Dvořák|description=[[Antonín Dvořák]]'s [[Biblical Songs|1894 setting]] of selections from [[Psalms]] in the Bible of Kralice's translation.}}

==See also==
{{Wikisource-lang|cs|Bible kralická}}
* [[Bible translations into Czech]]
* [[Slavic translations of the Bible]]

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== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20151220195029/http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~michal/kr/ Bible of Kralice] &ndash; electronic version of the first edition (in Czech)
* [http://bible.blackened.cz/ Bible of Kralice] &ndash; electronic version of the latest edition (in Czech)
* [http://www.radio.cz/en/article/61430 Travelling exhibition shows history of Bible in Czech lands] &ndash; This exhibition includes the Bible of Kralice and a photo shows the Bible.
* [http://www.moravianchurcharchives.org/thismonth/13_10%20Kralice%20Bible.pdf The Kralice Bible] &ndash; short history of the edition and the details of its printing, with special attention given to a full 6-volume set preserved at the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem.

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[[Category:1613 books]]
[[Category:Early printed Bibles|Kralice]]
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[[Category:History of the Moravian Church]]
[[Category:16th-century Christian texts]]
[[Category:History of Moravia]]
[[Category:History of Christianity in the Czech Republic]]
[[Category:Czech lands under Habsburg rule]]
[[Category:Protestantism in the Czech Republic]]
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