The Third Millennium Bible (TMB), also known as the New Authorized Version, is a 1998 minor update of the
King James Version
The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version, is an Bible translations into English, English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and publis ...
of the
Bible
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. Unlike the
New King James Version, it does not alter the language significantly from the 1611 version, retaining
Jacobean grammar (including "thees" and "thous"), but it does attempt to replace some of the vocabulary which no longer would make sense to a modern reader.
Characteristics
Canon
The TMB, like the original KJV in 1611, contains the
Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books of the
Old Testament in between the Old and
New Testament
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s. This has helped win it some support among traditionalist
Anglicans
Anglicanism is a Western
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and
Eastern Orthodox
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Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canonical ...
Christians. A version without the Apocrypha (and with formatting changes) is known as the
21st Century King James Version.
Word updating
An example of word updating from
Ezra 9:3
External links
Third Millennium Bible- Official Site
KJ21 on BibleGateway.com- The complete text of the 21st Century King James Version, plus version, copyright and publisher information
TMB with Apocrypha on BibleStudyTools.com
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