Last week thousands of the books were sent out to mark the book's 400th anniversary.
Asked in a radio interview if he would "consider sending out other important texts like the Koran", he said: "Well if people wanted to put forward proposals to me, philanthropists or others, for distributing great books to school then fantastic."
He told BBC Radio 4's World at One: "I think the King James Bible is specifically important because it was the root of so many important changes in the life of this nation.
"But if people wanted to put forward a selection of books which they felt I should distribute to school then great the more books we can get children to read the better."
Around 24,000 Bibles are being distributed to schools by the Government, with the inscription "Presented by the Secretary of State for Education".
Mr Gove has supported the scheme because he wants school children to be able to appreciate the literary heritage of the King James' Bible.
He said he had received "hundreds of letters" from head masters and head mistresses who were "absolutely delighted" to receive the books.
He said: "I visited a school just last week which had just received its bible that day and the head teacher thought that it was, and it is, a beautiful thing."
Mr Gove said the cost of sending out the bibles had been borne by a "variety of philanthropists", some Tory and Liberal Democrat donors, as well as "one person who would never support a political party but thought it was a good idea".
Later aides to Mr Gove later played down suggestions that he was keen for a mass mail-out of Korans to schools. One source said Mr Gove was trying to emphasise how he wanted more schools to have access to great historical texts, like the Koran and other holy scriptures.
The third official translation of the Bible into English, known as the Authorised Version, was commissioned by the King James I in 1604 and published in 1611. It became the Church of England's official version and was spread worldwide by the British Empire.
It also brought phrases such as 'stumbling block', 'at their wits end', 'bottomless pit', 'born again', 'eye for an eye' and 'scapegoat' to the English language.
Sending out Bibles to schools yes, after all we are a Christain country [just] but to send Korans to schools is a big NO. Our children are being brainwashed in the schools to believing that Islam is the way, and if children are taught this crap young enough, then they will think Islam is the way.
This has to be stopped, we need to let this Mr Gove know that in no certain terms do we want our Children learning the Koran, and if he does not listen and goes ahead and sends them to the schools, then we must make a stand and take our children out under protest and not let them return untill the Korans have been removed.
Children are already being taught about Mohammed in certain schools without the parents knowing about it, this is also happening in America, but Obama won't stop it because he's a Muslim.
We are all in danger of loosing our country, you only have to read the newpapers everyday and you will see that Muslims are doing this and Muslims are doing that, what they are doing raping our young girls and drugging them, and the do gooders stick up for them because they ae brainwashed too, and the Labour party might as well be called the Muslim Labour party.
True Nationalists need to make a stand and show these Muslims and all the people who support them like the three main parties and the UAF and Hope not Hate, that we will not stand for it, we need to be strong and not let anyone put us down, we need to grow in numbers so we can protest in our thousands, and not just stand there like the usual few. We need to show them that we mean business and we want all Muslims out. This is Great Britain and we want our country back.
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