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The World English Bible (also known as WEB) is a public domain
Public domain

File:PD-icon.svgThe public domain is a range of abstract materials?commonly referred to as intellectual property?which are not owned or controlled by anyone....
 translation of the Bible
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
 that is currently in draft form. Work on the World English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 Bible began in 1997 and was known as the American Standard Version 1997. The New Testament is considered complete and is available in print.

World English Bible project was started to produce a modern English Bible version that is not copyrighted, does not use archaic English (such as the KJV), or is not translated in Basic English
Basic English

Basic English is an English language based controlled language created by Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language, and as an aid for teaching ESL....
 (such as the Bible In Basic English
Bible in Basic English

The Bible In Basic English is a translation of the Bible into Basic English. The BBE was translated by Professor S. H. Hooke using the standard 850 Basic English words....
).






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The World English Bible (also known as WEB) is a public domain
Public domain

File:PD-icon.svgThe public domain is a range of abstract materials?commonly referred to as intellectual property?which are not owned or controlled by anyone....
 translation of the Bible
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
 that is currently in draft form. Work on the World English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 Bible began in 1997 and was known as the American Standard Version 1997. The New Testament is considered complete and is available in print.

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The World English Bible project was started to produce a modern English Bible version that is not copyrighted, does not use archaic English (such as the KJV), or is not translated in Basic English
Basic English

Basic English is an English language based controlled language created by Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language, and as an aid for teaching ESL....
 (such as the Bible In Basic English
Bible in Basic English

The Bible In Basic English is a translation of the Bible into Basic English. The BBE was translated by Professor S. H. Hooke using the standard 850 Basic English words....
). The World English Bible follows the American Standard Version's decision to transliterate
Transliteration

Transliteration is the practice of transcribing a word or text written in one writing system into another writing system or system of rules for such practice....
 the Tetragrammaton
Tetragrammaton

Tetragrammaton The letters, properly read from right to left , are:|-! Hebrew !! Letter name !! Pronunciation|-valign=top| ?'...
, but updates "Jehovah
Jehovah

Jehovah, also Yehovah, is an English reading of , the most frequent form of the Tetragrammaton , the principal and personal name of God in the Hebrew Bible ....
" to be "Yahweh
Yahweh

Image:Tetragrammaton scripts.svg[Aramaic alphabet|Aramaic]] and Hebrew alphabet Yahweh is the English rendering of , a vocalization of the Tetragrammaton that was proposed by the Hebrew scholar Gesenius in the 19th century....
".

Translation Philosophy

It is based on the 1901 American Standard Version
American Standard Version

The Revised Version, Standard American Edition of the Bible, more commonly known as the American Standard Version , is a version of the Bible that was released in 1901....
, the Greek Majority Text, and the Hebrew Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia

The Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, or BHS, is an edition of the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible as preserved in the Leningrad Codex, and supplemented by masoretic and text-critical notes....
. There are seven passes of editing and proofreading for each book. An initial automated pass updated approximately 1,000 archaic words, phrases and grammatical constructs. The first manual pass was to add quotation marks (the ASV had none) and other punctuation, and to check the translation against the Greek and Hebrew texts where there are significant textual variants or the meaning is unclear.

See also

  • American Standard Version
    American Standard Version

    The Revised Version, Standard American Edition of the Bible, more commonly known as the American Standard Version , is a version of the Bible that was released in 1901....
  • New American Standard Bible
    New American Standard Bible

    The New American Standard Bible is an English language translation of the Bible.The New Testament was first published in 1963. The complete Bible was published in 1971....


External links

  • Search by verse and keywords
  • At Project Gutenberg
    Project Gutenberg

    Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive and distribute cultural works, as founder Michael Hart said "To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks."....
    : Etext No. 8294 (full text), or 8228 to 8293 (by book, Genesis to Revelation)
    • Overview (complete text, Index with Glossary, Readme): http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8294
    • Search for available editions (complete and by book): http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/results?title=World+English+Bible
  • Also known as The Hebrew Names Version (HNV)]
  • Downloadable World English MP3 Audio Bible
  • The Vine uses The World English Bible: http://www.thevine.co.nz/bible/book
  • At Grace-Centered Magazine:
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