England contributed about 16,000 pounds for its production by 1660. The money came from private donations in England and Wales. There was no donations or money from the New England colonies for Eliot's Indian Bible. The translation answered the question received many times by Eliot from the Massachusett was "How may I get faith in Christ?" The ecclesiastical answer was "Pray and read the Bible." After Eliot's translation, there was a Bible they could read. Eliot translated the Bible from an unwritten American Indian language into a written alphabet that the Algonquian Indians could read and understand. He was the only missionary to make a new alphabet from an unwritten language for purposes of teaching scriptures in over a thousand years since Ulfilas constructed the Gothic alphabet. To show the difficulty of the Algonquian language used in Eliot's Indian Bible Cotton Mather gives as an example the Algonquian word "" (32 characters) which means "our lusts". He said that the Indian language did not have "the least affinity to or derivation from any European speech." Some ecclesiastical questions given to Eliot by the Natick Indians that were to be answered by the new Algonquian Bible and Indian religious learning were:  In 1664 a specially constructed unique display copy was given to King Charles II by Robert Boyle, the Governor of the 'Corporation' for the propagation of the Gospel in New England. Many copies of the first edition (1663) of "Eliot’s Indian Bible" were destroyed by the British in 1675-76 by a war against Metacomet (war chief of the Wampanoag Indians). In 1685 after some debate the New England Company decided to publish another edition of "Eliot’s Indian Bible". The second edition of the entire Bible was finished in 1686 at a fraction of the cost of what it took to put out the first edition. There were 2,000 copies printed. A dedication to Robert Boyle, governor of Massachusetts, had a special single leaf printed and placed into the 1685 presentation copies sent to Europe. The first English edition of the entire Bible was not published in the United States for some 120 years after "Eliot's Indian Bible" when Robert Aitken's Bible came out in 1782. Eliot's Indian Bible translation of the complete Christian Bible was supposedly written with one pen. This printing project was the largest printing job done in 17th-century Colonial America. The Massachusett Indian language Natick dialect that the translation of Eliot's Bible was made in no longer is used in the United States.