American King James Version
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| - | The American King James Version ([[AKJV]]) is translation by Michael Peter (Stone) Engelbrite of True Grace Ministries, based on the original [[King James Version]] who claims his version is "a simple word for word update from the King James English" | + | The American King James Version ([[AKJV]]) is translation by Michael Peter (Stone) Engelbrite of True Grace Ministries, based on the original [[King James Version]] who claims his version is "a simple word for word update from the King James English". |
| - | == | + | ==Public Domain== |
| + | In [[1999 AD|1999]] he placed it into the public domain. Care has been taken to change nothing [[doctrine|doctrinally]], but to simply update the spelling and vocabulary. The grammar has not been changed to avoid altering the doctrine. 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.” | ||
| + | ==External links== | ||
| + | *[http://studybible.info/version/AKJV AKJV on StudyBible.info] | ||
| + | * 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)] | ||
* [http://www.angelfire.com/al4/allenkc/akjv/ American King James Version Homepage] | * [http://www.angelfire.com/al4/allenkc/akjv/ American King James Version Homepage] | ||
* [http://www.crosswire.org/study/passagestudy.jsp?open=allBibles&mod=AKJV&key=Genesis+1%3A1 American King James Version Online] | * [http://www.crosswire.org/study/passagestudy.jsp?open=allBibles&mod=AKJV&key=Genesis+1%3A1 American King James Version Online] | ||
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| + | [[Category:1999 books]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Bible translations into English]] | ||
Revision as of 14:32, 21 January 2016
The American King James Version (AKJV) is translation by Michael Peter (Stone) Engelbrite of True Grace Ministries, based on the original King James Version who claims his version is "a simple word for word update from the King James English".
Public Domain
In 1999 he placed it into the public domain. 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. 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.”
