Text source: (c) 2009 by David A. Plaisted. This text is in the public domain, downloaded from http://www.lulu.com/plaistedatcsdotuncdotedu. For further information about the Lighthouse Bible and about Bible versions in general, and for information about ordering hard copies, go to http://sites.google.com/site/lighthouseversion/ The Holy Bible Lighthouse Version Second Edition. The purpose of this translation of the Bible is to preserve as much as possible the style and meaning of the King James Version of the Bible, while modernizing the language where the King James Version is hard to understand or excessively awkward.