Divers Hands in The Past
The oldest usage of the term to date online is Francis Bacon in Bacon's Good Pens (1679) "The Latine Translation of them was a Work performed by divers hands;"
There does not appear to be the use of 'divers hands' in the English bible itself, but often in scholarly works about the bible. There are several uses of the word 'divers', however. For example, in the King James version of the Bible, 2 Samuel 13:19 "And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying."
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