Editing Synod of Dort (section)

== Bible translation==
{{Main|Statenvertaling}}
The synod also initiated an official Dutch Bible translation (the ''[[Statenvertaling]]'', i.e. ''Translation of the States'' or, the ''Dutch Authorized Version'') from the original languages that would be completed in 1637. Translators were appointed, and the [[Netherlands States-General|States-General]] were asked to fund the project. It had a lasting impact on the standard [[Dutch language]], which was just then beginning to gain wider acceptance and developing a literary tradition. It would remain the standard translation in Protestant churches for more than three centuries and still is used in some sister churches of the [[Netherlands Reformed Congregations]] and similar, smaller denominations.

Like its sister translations, the [[Geneva Bible|Genevan Bible]] and the [[King James Version]] (Authorized Version), the Dutch pastor-scholars worked in the Old Testament from the [[Masoretic Text]] (consulting the [[Septuagint]]) and in the New Testament from the [[Textus Receptus]] (consulting the [[Byzantine text-type|Majority Text]]).

In 1645, the [[Westminster Assembly]] appointed [[Theodore Haak]] to translate the ''Statenvertaling met kanttekeningen'' (''The Dort Bible and its Commentary'') into English for wider distribution. This work was published by Henry Hill in London 1657.