Translations
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Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Modern English; Berean places it near the middle of the range between word-for-word and thought-for-thought.
Read the BSB · 2016 (printed 2016, 2020, 2022 and 2025)
World English Bible (WEB)
A fairly literal update of the ASV into informal modern English; its editors place it closer to word-for-word than to thought-for-thought.
Read the WEB · Online since 1997; completed 2020 (stable text)
King James Version (KJV)
Formal, word-for-word style in early modern English (thee, thou, -eth); words the translators supplied are marked.
Read the KJV · 1611 (this text: the standardized edition of 1769)
American Standard Version (ASV)
A word-for-word revision of the KJV (the American edition of the 1881–1885 Revised Version), in older English (thee, thou, -eth).
Read the ASV · 1901
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Why some verses differ between translations
Text corrections
Corrections applied to the source files when the site is built. Each fix must match the source text exactly once, or the build stops. Report a problem in the text and it will be listed here.
| Date | Text | Where | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | BSB | Genesis 35:18 | “she named vvv him” → “she named him”. A leftover editing mark (“vvv”) was in the source file. |
| 2026-10-23 | BSB | Numbers 6:23 | “sons:This” → “sons: This”. A space was missing after the colon in the source file. |
| 2026-10-23 | BSB | Judges 16:14 | “web.Then” → “web. Then”. A space was missing after a footnote in the source file. |
| 2026-10-23 | BSB | 1 Samuel 1:20 | “Samuel,saying” → “Samuel, saying”. A space was missing after a footnote in the source file. |
| 2026-10-23 | BSB | Acts 26:14 | “Hebrew,‘Saul” → “Hebrew, ‘Saul”. A space was missing before the opening quotation mark in the source file. |
| 2026-10-23 | BSB | Revelation 1:11 | “saying,“Write” → “saying, “Write”. A space was missing before the opening quotation mark in the source file. |
| 2026-10-23 | BSB | 59 verses, for example Matthew 6:34 | The source files mark quotation marks left open at the end of a section with “[’’]”. This is an editing mark, not text, so it is not shown. |