Basically, it's the Bible

Fun! This is apparently the Bible in Basic English, C. K. Ogden's simplified version of English (with only 850 words), plus some additional 150 words for Biblical clarity. Can the entire Bible really be rendered with only 1000 words? No idea, but you are welcome to check it out, either free on the web or in this beautiful bound edition (which I haven't purchased)... Here is a sample: “From the first he was the Word and the Word was in relation with God and was God. This Word was from the first in relation with God. All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was. What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark”. Not very poetic, perhaps, but I suppose it could be useful somewhere...