World English Bible
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| Abbreviation | WEB |
|---|---|
| Year | Online since 1997; completed 2020 (stable text) |
| Translated by | Volunteers; senior editor and main translator Michael Paul Johnson. Published by eBible.org. |
| Old Testament based on | An update of the American Standard Version (1901), checked against the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia where the meaning is unclear or major variants exist. |
| New Testament based on | An update of the American Standard Version (1901), edited to follow the Byzantine Majority Text (Robinson–Pierpont and Hodges–Farstad editions) where it differs significantly. |
| Approach | 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. |
| Suits | Suits readers who want plain modern English (with contractions) that stays close to the older literal tradition. |
| God’s name in the Old Testament | Yahweh |
| Canon | The source edition (Classic, ecumenical) also has the Deuterocanon/Apocrypha: Tobit, Judith, Esther (Greek), Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, Baruch, 1–4 Maccabees, 1 and 2 Esdras, Prayer of Manasseh, Psalm 151 and Daniel (Greek). The site shows the 66 books for now. |
| In this edition | footnotes (1,130): word explanations, other possible renderings, manuscript differences (MT, TR, NU), words of Jesus marked, poetry set in lines, no section headings |
| Licence | Public domain. "World English Bible" is a trademark of eBible.org: a changed text must not be called the World English Bible. |
| Source | World English Bible Classic (eng-web), 2020 stable text, USFM files dated 22 October 2026 https://ebible.org/find/details.php?id=eng-web |
Notes
- This is the Classic edition, which uses "Yahweh". Other WEB editions use "LORD": worldenglish.bible
- Text basis, editor, dates and translation approach: ebible.org
- Romans 16:25–27 of other translations is at Romans 14:24–26 here.
- Luke 17:36, Acts 8:37, Acts 15:34 and Acts 24:7 are in footnotes, not in the main text.
- Pronouns that refer to God are not capitalized.