I've recently completed what is, to the best of my knowledge, the first complete translation of the Bible into Pig Latin. This is the 319th translation of the entire Bible; the New Testament has now been translated into 845 languages, and parts of the Bible have been rendered into 1629 tongues.

This translation is the culmination of millions of man-hours of work over the past 2000 years. I owe a tremendous debt to all those writers, translators, monks, scribes, pharisees and whatnot who came before me, and especially to King James and his coworkers, upon whose magnificent translation I have based this version.

It is my sincere hope that this work will be of value to scholars, researchers, native speakers of Pig Latin, and all those who wish to further their understanding of scripture by seeing it presented in new terms. As it is said, "In-ay e-thay eginning-bay as-way e-thay Ord-way."

The Catholic Church may wish to consider conducting Mass in Pig Latin, as it combines the solemnity of Latin with the accessibility of English.

I hope this work will accelerate the movement toward incorporating Pig Latin into our educational system. Pig Latin is one of the easiest foreign languages to learn, and English is far closer to its Pig Latin origins than to its roots in classical Latin. In addition, the uses of Pig Latin encryption for e-mail security have barely been explored; the potential benefits are incalculable.

Due to disk space limitations, currently only the following files are available in uncompressed text format:

Enesis-gay.txt, the book of Genesis

Ob-jay.txt, the book of Job

Ohn-jay.txt, the book of John

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