Idea
New edition of the Hebrew and Aramaic Masoretic Text underlying Reformation translations of the Bible, as exemplified by the KJV
In digital format, using the UTF-8 standard to ensure the integrity of text and widest possible compatibility and portability
Represents the textual choices made by translators of the KJV
Attached inline notes document known differences from texts currently in use by Bible-believing Christians
Attached introduction documents method of compilation and its theological basis, all changes made in subsequent revisions, and a guide to using the text for readers without formal theological and/or language training
Released for the use of the Church and the believing Bible reader with minimal copyright restrictions, under the Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY licence which only requires source attribution (so readers can verify the contents of the package received)
Ported to as many Bible software formats as possible
Methodology
1 Use pre-existing text base for creating module e.g. WLC
align to KJV1769 versification
Identify and enumerate gross differences in canonical arrangement, versification, verses, sentences, words, paragraphs from KJV
Compare results to known lists e.g. Textus receptus.com
Edit module to match and update difference lisf
2 validate existing digital transcriptions
Consonantal text
Vowel points
Hebrew accents
Compare against each other and against facsimiles of bomberg Ben Chayyim text
Question: Does not removing copyright restrictions expose the scriptures to the risk of intentional corruption by malicious actors?
Answer: Regardless of the safeguards set up by Man's laws or technology (e.g. technologies to encrypt data), any text could be potentially be reverse-engineered. If this text were to be copy-protected, the existing texts are already widely available and could be intentionally perverted by the same malicious actors.
This text is therefore released to the Church with a minimum of copyright restrictions, on the hypothesis that the best protection against its corruption might instead be to make as freely and easily copied, read and shared as possible. Indeed, God's providential preservation of the holy scriptures has historically employed similar mechanisms, viz. not by sealing up the autographs/originals in an airtight container and burying them in a cave or corner of a monastery library, but by having them publicly read, widely copied and translated into as many languages as possible for the use of the faithful Church.
Differences between WLC and KJV