"HeyBub" <heybub@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> dennis@home wrote:
>>
>> You can't copyright the text of the bible but you can copyright the
>> format and any additions you make (like illustrations).
>> That is why bibles are copyright but The Bible is not.
>
> Assuming you have the original text in Aramaic, Greek, or even Latin, you
> are correct.

The English King James(?) is also copyright free.
>
> A translation, however, is copyrightable. The following are copyrighted:
>
> CEV - Contemporary English Version
> ESV - English Standard Version
> GW - God's Word
> GNT - Good News Translation
> HCSB - Holman Christian Standard Bible
> ISV - International Standard Version
> JBP - New Testament in Modern English
> NAB - New American Bible
> NASB - New American Standard Bible
> NCV - New Century Version
> NET - New English Translation
> NIV - New International Version
>
> and about twenty others. And these just in English.
>
>

Yes well they have to do something to make them copyright.
If you download the King James bible text and format it in RTF you will own
the copyright and can do what you want.