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 (AV), is an Early Modern English Bible translations, Early Modern English translation of the Christianity, Christian Bible for the Church of England, wh ...

of the

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. Unlike the

New King James Version The New King James Version (NKJV) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English, working as a revision of the King James Version. Published by Thomas Nelson, the complete NKJV was released in 1982. With regard to its textual basis, the ...

, 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 The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Isr ...

in between the Old and

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s, making a total of 80 books. This has helped win it some support among traditionalist

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and

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Christians. A version without the Apocrypha (and with formatting changes) is known as the 21st Century King James Version.Bible Gateway website, '' 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)''
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Word updating

Vocabulary updates were based on Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, Unabridged. An example of word updating from Ezra 9:3:

References

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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