Chapter III: On Vernacular Versions of Sacred Scripture

7. Since by experience it is manifest that, if the sacred Bibles in the vernacular language are everywhere permitted without discrimination, more detriment than utility arises thence, on account of the rashness of men, all versions in the vernacular language, even those made by Catholic men, are altogether prohibited, unless they have been approved by the Apostolic See, or edited under the vigilance of bishops with annotations taken from the holy Fathers of the Church and from learned and Catholic writers.

8. All versions of the sacred Bibles, made in any vernacular language by any non-Catholics whatsoever, are interdicted, and especially those which are spread abroad through biblical societies, condemned more than once by the Roman Pontiffs, since in them the most salutary laws of the Church concerning the publishing of divine books are fundamentally disregarded.

Nevertheless these versions are permitted to those who devote themselves to theological or biblical studies, with those things observed which were established above (n. 5).