The World English Bible (WEB)
Click here for a frames-based index of the World English Bible.The Old Testament
The 5 Books of Moses (The Law)
| Genesis | Exodus | Leviticus *4* | Numbers *2* | Deuteronomy *2* |
History
| Joshua *3* | Judges *2* | Ruth *2* | 1 Samuel *2* |
| 2 Samuel *2* | 1 Kings *2* | 2 Kings *2* | 1 Chronicles *2* |
| 2 Chronicles *2* | Ezra *2* | Nehemiah *2* | Esther *4* |
Wisdom Literature
| Job | Psalms | Proverbs | Ecclesiastes | Song of Songs |
The Prophets
| Isaiah *2* | Jeremiah *2* | Lamentations *2* | Ezekiel *2* | Daniel *2* |
| Hosea | Joel | Amos | Obadiah | Jonah |
| Micah | Nahum | Habakkuk | Zephaniah | Haggai |
| Zechariah | Malachi |
The Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical Books
These books provide historical background helpful for understanding the
Old and New Testaments, and some information found in the Greek
Septuagint but not found in the traditional Hebrew manuscripts of the
Old Testament.
| Tobit *3* | Judith *3* | Esther (Greek) *3* | Wisdom | Sirach |
| Baruch *3* | Jeremiah¡¯s Letter *3* | Daniel (Greek) *3* | 1 Maccabees | 2 Maccabees |
| 1 Esdras | Prayer of Manasseh | Psalm 151 |
The New Testament
The Life of Jesus and the Early Church
| Matthew | Mark | Luke | John | Acts |
Letters from the Apostle Paul to Churches
| Romans | 1 Corinthians | 2 Corinthians | Galatians | Ephesians |
| Philippians | Colossians | 1 Thessalonians | 2 Thessalonians |
Letters from the Apostle Paul to Individuals
| 1 Timothy | 2 Timothy | Titus | Philemon |
General Letters from Apostles and Prophets
| Hebrews | James | 1 Peter | 2 Peter |
| 1 John | 2 John | 3 John | Jude |
Prophecy - messages from God for the present and the future
| Revelation |
Helps
| Glossary |
Note: every verse in the above Bible books are marked with anchors,
so that you can link straight to any verse. The anchors are of the form
C1V1 (but replace the numbers with the actual chapter and verse), so
for example, to load John with chapter 3, verse 16 at the top
of the page, use the URL http://eBible.org/web/John.htm#C3V16.
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The World English Bible is available for download in various formats:
- webhtm.zip contains HTML
- webtxt.zip contains plain ASCII text
- webosis.zip contains modified XML Open Scriptural
Information Standard (OSIS)
- webrtf.zip contains Rich Text Format (import into Microsoft Word or other word processors)
- webxml.zip contains XML Scripture Encoding Model (XSEM)
- webgbf.zip contains General Bible Format (from which the other formats are generated using GBF conversion software)
- webtex.zip contains LaTeX files
- web.pdf (whole Bible) and webnt.pdf (New Testament + Psalms + Proverbs) are Adobe Portable Document Format files.
- Audio recordings (MP3 and RealAudio)
- websf.zip contains Unified
Standard Format Marker files.
- web_olb.zip contains a one verse per
line ASCII format without prose and poetry formatting, provided only
for use with Bible study software that cannot handle proper poetry and
prose formatting.
The following additional formats are converted by third parties, and not necessarily updated with every release:
- Self-contained World English Bible reader program
- MP3 and RealAudio format audio files from www.AudioTreasure.com
- Olive Tree Software BibleReader software for PalmOS, Pocket PC, WinCE
- WEB for Palm OS from Laridian Sales
- WEB for Pocket PC and Windows CE from Laridian Sales
- WEB for Palm Bible+ (and do-it-yourself conversion software from GBF to Palm Bible+ format)
- WEB for the Online Bible
- WEB
for a Postnuke web site
- Other GBF conversion
programs
You can use Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) or Gnu Privacy Guard (along with this public key) and MD5SUM or sha1sum to verify the integrity of the above .zip archives. The revision date is given in seal.txt.
The World English Bible is a Modern English update of the American Standard Version of 1901.
The translation and review is currently in progress, so please
check back
from time to time for updates. If you find any typos or have any
comments on
this translation, please send email to
This translation is in the Public Domain, so feel free to copy, publish (for free or for a price), and use it. You don't need to pay any royalties or even to ask for any additional permission. You already have permission to publish, copy, and distribute the World English Bible as much as you want to in any form (spoken, written, paper, electronic, etc.). We do ask that you update your copy that you publish periodically until the World English Bible editing is done, as a courtesy to your readers (and not as a requirement). If you make any changes to the text of the World English Bible, we do ask that you not call it the World English Bible any more, to avoid confusion, unless you get specific permission from us to do so.
For more information on this translation, please see the World English Bible Frequently Asked Questions.
The World English Bible may also be found on other www sites, such as the Biblical Prophecy Resource Center and Biola University's site.
Since the World English Bible is still a work in
progress, the numbers after
the book names indicate the approximate status of each book:
*1*: Automated
conversion from the ASV of 1901
completed: no quotation marks, and some of the
grammar is still archaic.
*2*: In the process of its first manual revision.
*3*: First manual revision completed.
*4* - *6*: Proofreading &
accuracy check in progress.
*7* or no number given: "Done" (but not frozen) and stable enough to
commit to print
(but please tell us if you find a
typo or translational issue anyway, and we will make well-justified
corrections).
This work is dedicated to the Public Domain.
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