The Bible in film made the first attempt to produce a series of films based on the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation. "", based largely on the book of Genesis, was to have been the first of these films, but financial challenges cancelled further films. Forty-seven years later, Hearst Corporation and producers Roma Downey and Mark Burnett created their own reimagining of the story via a TV miniseries, "The Bible", thus finally fulfilling DeLaurentiis' original 1966 vision. The box office failure "King David", was released in 1985. The New Testament was less frequently turned into major motion pictures. Unlike the Old Testament, the
The Book of Mormon and the King James Bible portions of the Greek manuscripts of Matthew 5–7 do not agree with the KJV of the text, and concludes that the Book of Mormon version of the sermon should not contain text similar to the KJV. The KJV of 1769 contains translation variations which also occur in the Book of Mormon. A few examples are , , and . The Book of Mormon references "dragons" and "satyrs" in , matching the KJV of the Bible. Some examples of homophones found in the English Book of Mormon are the words "strait" and "straight", and the words "sun" and "son". A few