World English Bible, Paperback/Bible Domain Publishing

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The World English Bible (WEB) is a modern, high-quality, public domain translation of the Holy Bible. This edition includes the Old Testament, the Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament. The text is based on the American Standard Version 1901 Bible, Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia Old Testament, and Byzantine Majority Text New Testament. The project was conceived by Michael Paul Johnson in 1994 and was first published in 1997 by Rainbow Missions, Inc. This volume is a printing of the online Old, Deuterocanonical, and New Testaments texts as of March 16, 2016. For the latest version of the World English Bible, please visit worldenglishbible. org. THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE IS PUBLIC DOMAIN Because the World English Bible is in the Public Domain (not copyrighted), it can be freely copied, distributed, and redistributed without any payment of royalties. You don't even have to ask permission to do so. You may publish the World English Bible in any form - in whole or in part. You may distribute audio recordings of it. All you have to do is maintain the integrity of God's Word before God, and reserve the name "World English Bible" for faithful copies of this translation. The World English Bible is an update of the American Standard Version (ASV) of the Holy Bible, published in 1901. The New Testament was updated to conform to the Majority Text reconstruction of the original Greek manuscripts, thus taking advantage of the superior access to manuscripts that we have now compared to when the original ASV was translated. THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE INCLUDES THE APOCRYPHA The World English Bible is an ecumenical project that includes books included in Bibles in many denominations. The main 66 books of the Old and New Testaments are recognized as Scripture by all true Christians. There are also books considered to be part of, Deuterocanon, Apocrypha, and Pseudepigrapha. The following books are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Russian Ortho