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History of the English Bible
Overview
Old English translations
Lindisfarne Gospels
Middle English translations
Wyclif's Bible
Early Modern English translations
Tyndale's Bible
Coverdale's Bible
Matthew's Bible
Taverner's Bible
Great Bible
Geneva Bible
Bishops' Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible
King James Version
Modern English translations
18th and 19th century
Quaker Bible
Thomson's Translation
Webster's Revision
Young's Literal Translation
Joseph Smith Translation
Julia E. Smith Parker Translation
English Revised Version
20th and 21st century
American Standard Version
Revised Standard Version
New World Translation
Jerusalem Bible
Lamsa Bible
New American Bible
New English Bible
New International Version
English Standard Version
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Recovery Version
Ongoing translation projects
Anchor Bible Series
New English Translation
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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 Stutgartensa .

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 translate the Tetragrammaton, but updates " Jehovah" to be " Yahweh".

As of this writing, the New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs are done. The rest of the Old Testament is being translated.

Rainbow Missions is the sponsor of the World English Bible project.



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