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points by Redster 3 days ago | 0 comments

Love to see the World English Bible here. (Nothing against the ASV or BSB, I'm just used to seeing KJV and ASV as the only options when someone reaches for a public domain translation.)

The WEB is woefully under-utilized for such a good, readable, modern and openly licensed translation. I do read from the Greek New Testament and when I've compared the WEB with it, I've been pleasantly surprised at the level of Greek nuance they were able to capture with their English phrase choices. (I do not know Hebrew and have not checked the WEB on that.)

[–] jclardy 3 days ago

Thanks, I’ve enjoyed it as well though I’m typically using ESV and NKJV. I found out about WEB from an app my wife uses for listening to the Bible, the recordings are also openly licensed and audio is something I’d like to add to the app in the short term.