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The Revised Standard Version (RSV) text of 1947 and 1973, was obtained from CCAT, corrected and adapted to the ONLINE BIBLE format by Larry Pierce. According to the license agreement issued by the CCAT, "these texts are only available for NON-COMMERCIAL personal/scholarly and educational use, with the understanding that CCAT needs to maintain records of those to whom copies are distributed."
The RSV text is from THE HOLY BIBLE: REVISED STANDARD VERSION. Copyright 1946, 1952, 1973 by National Council of Churches of Christ. All rights reserved. The text includes the deuterocanonical works also known as "apocrypha".
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Text: RSV with "apocrypha"/deuterocanonicals
Format: PalmBiblePlus
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