This is the Basic English Bible.
This is a translation of the Bible into
Basic English, a version of English with 850 standard words.
150 words were added to the vocabulary for this work.
The translation was done by S.H. Hooke.
The New Testament was released in 1941 and the Old Testament in 1949.
This work is in the public domain in the US because its copyright was not
renewed at the US copyright office in a timely fashion.
