The Common Bible Format
Why another Bible format? Two reasons: 1) The Bible is God's word. God's word should not be owned by man or corporation. The text should be freely available to anyone. Free as in public domain just like the King James Version (KJV) is. This means the text can be copied as many times as need. Quoted as many times as needed. Sold or given away freely. No royalties required to anyone; making distribution easy. The far majority of the updated formats require royalties, exclusive copyrights, trademarks for full text such as the popular New King James Version (NKJV) and the New International Version (NIV). 2) The CBF is easier to read than KJV. How? With word replacement. Easier by making The Command Bible Format very simple and straight forward. But no scripture is diminished. It is solely based off of the trusted King James Bible. 8 simple changes that makes the Bible easier to read: 1. hath = has 2. ye = you 3. thou = you 4. thee = you 5. whence = where 6. thy = your 7. yet spake = spoke 8. begat = fathered To summarize the main goals of the Common Bible format -- The Bible should be easy to read and freely available to all.
Here are some sed regular expressions:
s/hath /has /g
s/ye /you /g
s/Ye /You /g
s/Thou /You /g
s/thou /you /g
s/thee /you /g
s/whence /where /g
s/thy /your /g
s/yet spake /spoke /g
s/begat /fathered /g