The 21st Century King James Version is a minor update of the King James Version. However, unlike the New King James Version, it does not alter the language significantly from the 1611 version, retaining the old-style "thees" and "thous". What it does attempt to do though is to replace some of the vocabulary which no longer would make sense to a modern reader. The efforts of translating the Bible from its original languages into over 2,000 others have spanned more than two millennia. ... A number of Old English Bible translations were prepared in mediaeval England, translations of parts of the Bible into the Old English language. ... The age of Middle English was not a fertile time for Bible translations but saw the first major translation that of John Wyclif. ... Early Modern English Bible translations are those translations of the Bible which were made between about 1500 and 1800, the period of Early Modern English. ... There are many attempts to translate the Bible into modern English which is defined as the form of English in use after 1800. ... Jewish English Bible translations are modern English Bible translations that include the books of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) according to the masoretic text, and according to the traditional division and order of Torah, Neviim, and Ketuvim. ... 11th century manuscript of the Hebrew Bible with Targum This article discusses usage of the term Hebrew Bible. For the article on the Hebrew Bible itself, see Tanakh. ... 11th century Targum Tanakh [×ª× ×´×š] (also Tanach or Tenach) is an acronym that identifies the Hebrew Bible. ... There are other translation projects which are worthy of note which are not easily classified in the other groups: Anchor Bible Series - The Anchor Bible is a translation treating the Bible merely as a historical text; each book is translated by a different scholar, with extensive critical commentary. ... This page is about the version of the Bible; for the Harvey Danger album, see King James Version (album). ... The New King James Version (NKJV) is a modern Bible translation, published by Thomas Nelson, Inc. ...
An example from Ezra 9:3 The Book of Ezra is a book of the Bible in the Old Testament and Hebrew Tanakh. ...
King James Version This page is about the version of the Bible; for the Harvey Danger album, see King James Version (album). ...
...and sat down astonied.
21st Century King James Version
....and sat down stunned.
External links
www.kj21.com - The official site for the KJ21 version of the Bible
KJ21 on BibleGateway.com - The complete text of the 21st Century King James Version, plus version, copyright and publisher information
A version which avoids complicated language, obscure vocabulary and difficult sentence structure to produce a transalation understandable to a wide variety of modern readers.
Pastor and biblical scholar Eugene H. Peterson's aim in developing this contemporary language version is to transfer the "informal and earthly flavor of the Greek into rhythms and idion of everyday English".
This version is based on the New International Version but substitutes shorter, easier words for long words and breaks long sentences into shorter ones.
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