lethargic_man | Genesis chapter 1 through 1500 years of English

A year ago, I posted:

[S]omething I'd love to hear is a text read which starts in Old English, and as the reading progresses, the pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary gradually shift into Modern English, via all the intermediate stages. A quick google does not show me any such thing, though there are things like this, which have discrete texts jumping forward several hundred years between each.

Originally I left it at that, because I do not have the skills to write English as it was written across the whole time period, but then it occurred to me that there is a text which was repeatedly rendered into the English of each period during the language's history: the Bible. It still took me months and months to get around to doing this, because it was a big project that required tens of hours of work, but I made a start on it during the second half of my recent period of unemployment (in between getting a job lined up and actually starting it), and here finally is the result:

"Genesis chapter 1 through 1500 years of English" (Watch on YouTube)

If anyone has any questions about how or why I made this, or how or why English changed the way it did, or what decisions I made or why, I'll be happy to answer them in the comments. And do feel free to share this further onwards.