Free download copy of the Bible available in several languages

[UnderSeaBumbleBee]

If anyone is interested, at www.e-sword.net you can download a free copy of the bible as well as commentaries and study software.

Go to www.e-sword.net When the page comes up, look for the download E-Sword now button the right side of the page. This version
is the King James with Strong's numbers. It is not a user friendly
version for reading. You must download this version and software in
order to down load the others.

After you download and save that, you can then click on the word"
download" at the top of this page: www.e-sword.net It will
take you to a page that has the word Downloads on the left side of
the page with a drop down menu box that will allow you to select
bibles, commentaries, dictionaries, graphics and so forth.
When you click on bibles a page with many choices will appear. If
you desire to download any of the first 8 selections there is a
charge. There are 80 other versions that do not require a purchase.
Those selections which must be purchased are Amplied Bible, Complete
Jewish Bible, Holman Christian Standard Bible, The Message, New
American Standard Version, New King James Version, New Living
Translation, NIV Family Bible. These display a $ to let you know
there is a charge. The ones listed below with just an arrow do not
require any payment and are free to anyone who would like to have
them.

Feel free to pass along the link to anyone that would find it
useful

These versions listed below are available FREE OF CHARGE AND DO NOT
REQUIRE ANY PURCHASE.
1 American Standard Version
2 Bible in Basic English
3 Contemporary English Version
4 Douay-Rheims Bible
5 English Standard Version
6 Good News Translation
7 God's Word to the Nations
8 International Standard Version
9 Jewish Publication Society Old Testament
10 King James Version
11 King James Version Red Letter
12 King James with Strongs—included when you downloaded e-sword
13 Literal Translation of the Holy Bible
14 Modern King James Version
15 Revised Version
16 Darby Bible
17 Majority Text Version
18 James Murdock New Testament
19 Webster Bible
20 Weymouth New Testament
21 Youngs Literal Translation
22 Bishops Bible 1568 with Apocrypha
23 Geneva Bible 1587 with Apocrypha
24 King James 1611 with Apocrypha
25 Greek New Testament
26 Scrivener Textus Receptus
27 Robinson Pierport Byzantine Greek New Testament
28 Textus Receptu Greek New Testament
29 Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament with Strongs
30 Greek New Testament with variants
31 Hebrew New Testament
32 Hebrew Old Testament Tanach
33 Hebrew Old Testament with Strongs
34 Greek Old Testament Septuagint
35 Lantan Vulgate with Deuterocanon
36 Afrikaans Ou Vertaling Courtesy of the Bible Society of South
Africa
37 Arabic Smith & Van Dyke Bible
38 Bulgarian Bible
39 Czech Bible Kralicka'
40 Chinese Union Version Simplified
41 Chinese Union Version Traditional
42 Danish Bible
43 Dutch Staten Vertaling
44 Finnish Pyha Raamuttu
45 French Darby Bible
46 French Louis Segong Bible
47 German Elberfelder Bible
48 German Luther Bible
49 German Neue Evangelistische Ubertragung
50 German Schlachter Bible
51 Vamvas Modern Greek Bible
52 Hungarian Karoli Bible
53 Icelandic Bible
54 Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia Seharihari
55 Indonesian Terjemahan Baru
56 Italian Nuova Riveduta
57 Italian Riveduta Luzzi
58 Japanese Shinkaiyaku Seisho
59 Korean Revised Version
60 Norwegian Bible
61 Polish Biblia Gdanska
62 Portuguese Joao Ferreira de Almeida Atualizda
63 Romanian Duitru Cornilescu Translation
64 Romanial Dumitru Cornilescu Translation
65 Romanian Othrodox Bible
66 Russian Synodal Text
67 Russian New Testament with Strongs
68 Serbian Danicic Karadzic latin version
69 Modricker Somali Bible
70 Spanixh La Bibla de las Americas
71 Spanish Nueva Bibla de los Hispanos
72 Spanish Reina-Valera
73 Spanish Sagradas Escrituras
74 Swedish Bible
75 Tagalog Ang Biblia
76 Thai King James Version
77 Turkish Kutsal Kitap
78 Ukrainian Bible
79 Vietnamese Bible
80 Y Beibl Cymraeg Newydd Argraffiand Diwygiedig Revised New Welsh
Bible

 

[drbill]

I think that's pretty cool since it seems it would allow one to search the text for key words and phrases.

 

[UnderSeaBumbleBee]

Hi Dr B, yes it is pretty easy to use. The search features work really well. It also lets you create your own commentary and save your own thoughts in regard to a specific passage.

It also lets you create your own parallel copy with up to 4 translations of your choice in any language on screen at one time. It is interesting to have something that was translated almost 600 years ago up screen with something translated in recent times. I find it fascinating how language has changed over time and from region to region.

In STEP reader/book downloads, I recently found some stuff by historian Flavius Josephus. I still haven't worked my way through all the stuff that is available.

I have found it to be helpful in my studies. I have been using it just over a year. It is nice to have so many resources available at the touch of a key rather than having mounds of paper. I wish I could convert my whole library to electronic media. I was thinking about purchasing something along these lines when someone told me about e-sword. It certainly has saved me some cash as well as has been very useful. I hope it will be useful for others.

 

[Deefstes]

Cool. I just downloaded the PDA version. Been looking for a bible to run on my PDA for some time now.

 

[UnderSeaBumbleBee]

Cool. I just downloaded the PDA version. Been looking for a bible to run on my PDA for some time now.

Glad you found the link helpful.

 

[trucker girl]

Wow- how long does that take to download? Big book...

 

[peterbj7]

Cool. I just downloaded the PDA version. Been looking for a bible to run on my PDA for some time now.

I've had the KJB on my PDA (Palm 3 technology) for three or four years, together with search software. I also have the Islam "holy book", but I wasn't able to find the Jewish one.

 

[UnderSeaBumbleBee]

It only takes about 5 minutes to down load the first version and the software on high speed. And About3-4 minutes or so for each additional translation you select.

 

[deco_martini]

Sounds cool to me. Keyword searching beats using a bible-sized concordance which is what I have to use now.

 

[UnderSeaBumbleBee]

Sounds cool to me. Keyword searching beats using a bible-sized concordance which is what I have to use now.

Yeah, I used to use the one on the back of the Bible or Strong's to look up stuff which lists single words rather than phrases. I could usually find what I was looking for in Strong's but it took so long. With e-sword, if I remember a couple of words, it takes me right to it.

I was hoping to download the pocket version on my Palm Centro, but that isn't supported yet. They support some of the other Palm products. I tried to download it to see if it would work, but I couldn't get it to sink up and download to the Palm.