American King James Version
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| American King James Version | |
|---|---|
| Full name: | American King James Version |
| Abbreviation: | AKJV |
| Complete Bible published: | 1999 |
| Translation type: | literal; semi-Elizabethan |
| Copyright status: | Public domain (copyright waived) |
| Genesis 1:1-3 | |
| In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. | |
| John 3:16 | |
| For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. | |
The American King James Version is a new English edition of the Holy Bible by Michael Peter (Stone) Engelbrite, based on the King James Version. It is a simple word for word update from the King James English. Care has been taken to change nothing doctrinally, but to simply update the spelling and vocabulary. The grammar has not been changed to avoid altering the doctrine.
Michael Engelbrite has put the American King James version of the Bible into the public domain on November 8, 1999. In a note distributed with the translation, he stated, “You may use it in any manner you wish: copy it, sell it, modify it, etc. You can't copyright it or prevent others from using it. A special thanks to Tye Rausch and Eve Engelbrite who helped tremendously on this project. You can't claim that you created it, because you didn't.” [1]
[edit] External links
- The Sword Project — with reader software and other translations.
- OnLine Bible — Translation, reader software.
- Direct links to the text file:
- http://panoptic.com/rking/doc/akjv.txt (4.1 megs)
- http://panoptic.com/rking/doc/akjv.bz2 (less than a meg - but Windows users would have to go get a [bzip2]-deflating program)
- http://panoptic.com/rking/doc/akjv.zip (1.3 megs)
- http://panoptic.com/rking/doc/akjv.gz (1.3 megs)
