Translations
Every translation here is a Protestant Bible in the public domain, bundled with the site — nothing is fetched from a third party while you read.
World English Bible
WEB · 2000 · English
A modern-English update of the American Standard Version. Readable and contemporary.
- Licence
- Public domain. "World English Bible" is a trademark of eBible.org.
- Source
- eBible.org (engwebp), retrieved 2026-10-05
King James Version
KJV · 1611/1769 · English
The Authorized Version in the standardised 1769 Oxford text. Classic, majestic English.
- Licence
- Public domain worldwide except the United Kingdom, where rights are vested in the Crown by letters patent.
- Source
- eBible.org (eng-kjv2006), retrieved 2026-10-05
- Note
- In the United Kingdom the KJV is under perpetual Crown copyright administered by Cambridge University Press. This site is published from Singapore, where the text is in the public domain.
American Standard Version
ASV · 1901 · English
A careful American revision of the KJV, known for rendering the divine name as "Jehovah".
- Licence
- Public domain.
- Source
- eBible.org (eng-asv), retrieved 2026-10-05
Young's Literal Translation
YLT · 1898 · English
Robert Young's word-for-word rendering that follows Hebrew word order closely.
- Licence
- Public domain.
- Source
- eBible.org (engylt), retrieved 2026-10-05
Darby Translation
DBY · 1890 · English
J. N. Darby's translation from the original languages, precise and formal.
- Licence
- Public domain.
- Source
- eBible.org (engDBY), retrieved 2026-10-05
和合本 Chinese Union Version
CUV · 1919 · Chinese (Simplified)
The classic Chinese Protestant Bible (新标点和合本 punctuation, simplified script). Not the 2010 revision.
- Licence
- Public domain.
- Source
- eBible.org (cmn-cu89s), retrieved 2026-10-05
- Versification
- Combines 23:31–32 and 26:18–19 into single verses.
Why only these?
Only Protestant translations in the public domain are included. Modern translations such as the NIV, ESV and NKJV are under copyright, so they aren’t included. Text is taken from eBible.org’s plain-text editions; KJV italics (supplied words) are shown as ordinary text.