The Jews have an interesting practice of burying old worn out Torahs, Hebrew is a closely scrutinized language, What’s in a Hebrew word?, so there's a method of at least understanding the old Hebrew texts.

So, again, I'm glad this family got their Bible back, I doubt if this family speaks or reads German anymore, so lets hope they have a modern version like NASB to depend upon.

William Bell Riley wrote:
Is the King James version absolutely inerrant? On this point we are inclined to think that, even unto comparatively recent years, such a theory has been entertained. The result, of course, is to make a sort of fetish of the book. That is why, in many a family, it is kept on the center-table and seldom used. They do not want to soil its sacredness….