World English Bible

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World English Bible
Full name:	World English Bible
Abbreviation:	WEB
Complete Bible published:	Not yet
Translation type:	modern
Publisher:	Rainbow Missions
Copyright status:	Public domain (copyright waived)
Online address:	http://www.ebible.org/
Genesis 1:1-3
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters. God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

English translations of the Bible +/-
Old English translations (pre-1066)
Middle English translations (1066-1500)
Early Modern English translations (1500-1800)
Modern Christian translations (post 1800)
Modern Jewish translations (post 1853)
Miscellaneous translations

The World English Bible (also known as WEB) is a public domain translation of the Bible that is currently in draft form. It is based on the 1901 American Standard Version, the Greek Majority Text, and the Hebrew Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. The New Testament is considered complete and is available in print.

Work on the World English Bible began in 1997 and was known as the American Standard Version 1997. The World English Bible project was started to produce a modern English Bible version that is not copyrighted, doesn't use archaic English (such as the KJV), or isn't translated in Basic English (such as the Bible In Basic English). The World English Bible follows the American Standard Version's unusual decision to transliterate the Tetragrammaton, but updates "Jehovah" to be "Yahweh".

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.

Although a complete draft version is available, there is still much editing in progress. It was hoped to have a finished version by Christmas 2005. The entire New Testament is now mostly complete, and the Old Testament is complete except for the books of Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, and Daniel.