Bible and AI

When one has written a book, it is accepted (one hopes) -- then one delivers -- and then there's a format check, which one might call an "entrance exam". I failed the latest format check, for now -- and the reason is interesting. I modified Bible passages with artificial intelligence (AI), so as to make them simpler, more contemporary, more punchy -- with some intervention by me. The publishers: "We cannot accept a work with a human- or AI-altered Bible translation ..." and so on. No doubt there is respect for Scripture here -- but there is copyright, too. A Bible text, if modified, apparently contravenes copyright. OBSERVATION: Here's a small example of what AI did: it said "a town of Galilee" is better as "a town in Galilee". I suspect that this tussle between Bible and AI may be a world first.