Holy Bible

The Restoration Edition (RE) is the scholarly companion to the Contextual Restoration Edition (CRE), presenting the biblical text with uncompromising linguistic fidelity and historical accuracy. Unlike the CRE, which emphasizes readability and accessibility, the RE is designed as a reference Bible—providing a precise, academically rigorous rendering of the text for study, teaching, and critical engagement. Where the CRE prioritizes contextual readability, the RE adheres to the raw precision of the original languages. At the heart of this edition is the careful restoration of every anachronistic rendering of "Jew" and its related forms to their proper ancient equivalents—whether "Judahite," "Judaean," or another historically accurate designation—as determined by the context of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. By recovering these distinctions, the RE allows readers to encounter the Scriptures with maximum historical precision and contextual clarity. This edition also restores the Apocrypha, the set of intertestamental writings historically included in the King James Bible but omitted from most modern editions. By returning these books to their rightful place between the Old and New Testaments, the RE offers a more complete and historically accurate presentation of the biblical canon as it was known to the early Church and English-speaking Christians for centuries. Faithful to the legacy of the 1611 King James Bible, as transmitted through the classic 1769 Oxford Standard Text, the RE preserves the full scope of the historic English Bible tradition while restoring the purity of meaning obscured by later interpretive and institutional overlays. The result is a text that stands as the most authentic and reliable reference edition available to modern readers. The Restoration Edition is intended for pastors, scholars, teachers, and students who seek to examine the biblical text with the highest degree of fidelity to its original form. Paired with the Contextual Restoration Edition (CRE), it represents an unprecedented effort by Veritas Biblia Press to restore the Scriptures to their true historical, theological, and linguistic frame. Meticulously faithful and rigorously precise, the RE is a Bible for those who demand clarity, accuracy, and integrity in the Word of God.