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Holy Bible Online is the online version of World English Bible. The World
English Bible is a Modern English update of the American Standard Version
of 1901.There are many good English translations of the Holy Bible. Unfortunately,
all of them are either (1) archaic (like the KJV and ASV of 1901), or
(2) covered by copyright restrictions that prevent unrestricted free posting
on the internet or other media (like the NIV and NASB). The Bible in Basic
English (BBE) was in the Public Domain in the USA (but not all countries)
for a while, but its copyrighted status was restored by GATT. (The BBE
used a rather restricted subset of English, anyway, limiting its accuracy
and readability.) In other words, there is NO OTHER complete translation
of the Holy Bible innormal Modern English that can be freely copied (except
for some limited "fair use") without written permission from
the publisher and (usually) payment of royalties. This is the vacuum that
the World English Bible is filling.
Since this is primarily an update of the 1901 edition, the choices made
by the original 50 or so Evangelical scholars that made this translation
hold unless reference is made to the original languages to help with places
where the Elizabethan English is not clear, or where major textual variants
areknown to exist. In this case, we are using the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia,
also called The Stuttgart Bible, in the Old Testament, and the Byzantine
Majority Text as published for use with The Online Bible in the New Testament
(M-Text). This choice of Greek text is very close to what the KJV translators
used, but does take advantage of some more recently discovered manuscripts.
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