Old Testament in Scottish Gaelic, printed in Edinburgh in 1807 from the Society in Scotland For Propagating Christian Knowledge.

Bible translations into Scottish Gaelic: The New Testament was first published in Scottish Gaelic in 1767 and the whole Bible (Am Bìoball Gàidhlig) was first published in 1801. Prior to these, Gaels in Scotland had used translations into Irish.

It was not until after the final defeat of the Jacobite warriors at Culloden in 1746, that the Scottish branch of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge began serious work on a published Bible in Scottish Gaelic and initiated a translation project in 1755. The result of this was the New Testament of James Stuart (1701-1789) minister of Killin and poet Dugald Buchanan, published in 1767. Stuart worked from the Greek, Buchanan improved the Gaelic. This was followed in 1801 by a full Bible translation with an Old Testament largely by Stuart’s son John Stuart of Luss. The Scottish Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge (SSPCK) published a Gaelic New Testament in 1767 in Edinburgh. The Old Testament was published in four separate parts between 1783 and 1801. In 1807, the full text appeared; this edition was revised entirely and republished in 1826.