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TheBible has beentranslated intomany languages from thebiblical languages ofAramaic,Greek, andHebrew. The LatinVulgate translation was dominant inWestern Christianity through the Middle Ages. Since then, the Bible has been translated intomany more languages.English Bible translations also have a rich and varied history of more than a millennium.
Included when possible are dates and the source language(s) and, for incomplete translations, what portion of the text has been translated. Certain terms that occur in many entries are linked at the bottom of the page.
Because various biblical canons are not identical, the "incomplete translations" section includes only translations seen by their translators as incomplete, such as Christian translations of the New Testament alone. Translations comprising only part of certain canons are considered "complete" if they comprise the translators' complete canon, e.g. Jewish versions of theTanakh.
| Bible | Translated sections | English variant | Date | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aldhelm | Psalms (existence disputed) | Old English | Late 7th or early 8th century | Vulgate | |
| Bede | Gospel of John (lost) | Old English | c. 735 | Vulgate | |
| Psalters (12 in total), including theVespasian Psalter andEadwine Psalter | English glosses of Latin psalters | 9th century | Vulgate | ||
| King Alfred | Pentateuch, including theTen Commandments; possibly also the Psalms | Old English | c. 900 | Vulgate | |
| Aldred the Scribe | Northumbrian interlinear gloss on the Gospels in theLindisfarne Gospels | Old English | 950 to 970 | Vulgate | |
| Farman | Gloss on theGospel of Matthew in theRushworth Gospels | Old English | 950 to 970 | Vulgate | |
| Ælfric | Pentateuch,Book of Joshua,Judges | Old English | c. 990 | Vulgate | |
| Wessex Gospels[1] | Gospels | Old English | c. 990 | Old Latin | |
| Caedmon manuscript | A few English Bible verses | Old English | 700 to 1000 | Vulgate | |
| TheOrmulum | Some passages from the Gospels and theActs of the Apostles | Middle English | c. 1150 | Vulgate | |
| Rolle | Various passages, including some of the Psalms | Middle English | Early 14th century | Vulgate | |
| West Midland Psalms | Psalms | Middle English | Early 14th century | Vulgate | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Parson's Tale", inThe Canterbury Tales | Many Bible verses | Middle English | c. 1400 | Vulgate | |
| A Fourteenth Century Biblical Version: Consisting of a Prologue and Parts of the New Testament[2] | New Testament | Middle English | c. 1400 | Vulgate | |
| Life of Soul | Majority of text consists of Biblical quotations | Middle English | c. 1400 | Vulgate | |
| Nicholas Love,OCart,The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ | Gospels paraphrased | Middle English | c. 1410 (printed 6 times before 1535) | Johannes de Caulibus,OFM (possible author), Meditationes Vitae Christi (in Latin) | |
| William Caxton | Various passages | Middle English | 1483 (Golden Legend) 1484 (The Book of the Knight of the Tower) | A French translation | |
| Tyndale Bible | Incomplete translation. Tyndale's other Old Testament work went into the Matthew's Bible (1537). | Early Modern English | 1526 (New Testament, revised 1534) 1530 (Pentateuch) | Masoretic Text Erasmus' third NT edition (1522) Martin Luther's 1522 German Bible. |
| Bible | Content | English variant | Year | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aramaic English New Testament | New Testament | Modern English and Hebrew (Divine names) | 2008–2012 | Aramaic New Testament texts | A literal translation of the oldest known Aramaic New Testament texts in the form of astudy bible having extensiveannotation, ahistorical practice oftextual scholarship to assist understanding in context. In this case, the period ofearly Christianity. For example, explaining the literal Aramaic of “Jesus” as “Y'shua”. The Aramaic is featured with Hebrew letters and vowel pointing. |
| Bible in Worldwide English | New Testament | Modern English | 1969 | ||
| Brenton's English Translation of the Septuagint | Old Testament | Modern English | 1844 | Septuagint | |
| The Christian Scriptures | New Testament | Modern English | In progress (December 2019) | Greek-English interlinear Bibles and public domain translations of the New Testament | No chapters or verses; includes line numbers; logical book order; footnotes for every OT quotation in the NT; extensive index and preface |
| The Common Edition New Testament | New Testament | Modern English | 1999 | ||
| Confraternity Bible | New Testament | Modern English | 1941 | Revision of theChalloner Revision of theRheims New Testament. | OT was translated in stages, with editions progressively replacing books in the Challoner revision of the Douay-Rheims; when complete, it was published in 1970 as theNew American Bible |
| Disciples' Literal New Testament | New Testament | Modern English | 2011 | Greek New Testament | Literal New Testament by Michael Magill aiming for clarity with consistent terms.[3][4][5][6] |
| Immaculata Version | New Testament | Modern English | 2021 | A non-liturgical Catholic edition of the Bible prepared by Max Freedom Pollard alongside members of Immaculata Militia.[7][8] | |
| Emphatic Diaglott | New Testament | Modern English | 1864 | Greek text recension by DrJohann Jakob Griesbach | |
| First Nations Version | Gospels | Indigenous English | 2021 | ||
| Five Pauline Epistles, A New Translation | New Testament | Modern English | 1908 (combined in one volume in 1984) | Epistles of Romans, 1st and 2nd Corinthians, and 1st and 2nd Thessalonians, by Scottish scholarWilliam Gunion Rutherford | |
| The Four Gospels, byE. V. Rieu, Penguin | Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John | Modern English | 1952 | ||
| God's New Covenant: A New Testament Translation | New Testament | Modern English | 1989 | ||
| Grail Psalms | Book of Psalms | Modern English | 1963 (revised 2008, 2018) | FrenchLa Bible de Jérusalem [fr] | Translated according to the principles ofGelineau psalmody. Used for liturgical worship by theCatholic Church. |
| The Kingdom New Testament: A Contemporary Translation | New Testament | Modern English | 2011 | Eclectic Greek | ByNT Wright.[9] |
| TheLiving Oracles | New Testament | Modern English | 1826 | Compiled and translated byAlexander Campbell based translations byGeorge Campbell, James MacKnight andPhilip Doddridge, with reference to the 1805 critical Greek text byJohann Jakob Griesbach | Replaces traditional ecclesiastical terminology such as "church", "bishop" and "baptise" with alternative translations such as "congregation", "overseer" and "immerse". |
| Messianic Aleph Tav Scriptures[10] | Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and some of the New Testament | Modern English and Hebrew (Divine Names) | In progress | Masoretic Text Old Testament | The Messianic Aleph Tav Scriptures (MATS) is a study bible which focuses on the study of the Aleph Tav character symbol used throughout the old testament (Tanakh) in both the Pentateuch and the Prophets, from the Messianic point of view, this English rendition reveals every place the Hebrew Aleph Tav symbol was used as a "free standing" character symbol believed by some Messianic groups to express the "strength of the covenant" in its original meaning. |
| James Moffatt's 'The New Testament, A New Translation' | New Testament | Modern English | 1913 | Greek text ofHermann von Soden | |
| Helen Barrett Montgomery,Centenary Translation of the New Testament | New Testament | Modern English | 1924 | ||
| A New New Testament: A Bible for the Twenty-first Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts | New Testament and a selection ofNT apocrypha | Modern English | 2013 | A translation of all the books included in the traditional New Testament canon, with the addition of the ten new books (mostly coming from theNag Hammadi manuscripts):Gospel of Thomas;Gospel of Mary;Gospel of Truth;The Thunder: Perfect Mind;Odes of Solomon (I, II, III, IV);Prayer of Thanksgiving;Prayer of the Apostle Paul;Acts of Paul and Thecla;Letter of Peter to Philip;Secret Revelation of John.[11] Edited and with commentary by biblical scholarHal Taussig. | |
| The New Testament translated byRichmond Lattimore | New Testament | Modern English | 1962–1982 (Compiled in one volume in 1996) | Wescott-Hort Text | |
| The New Testament in Modern English (J.B. Phillips) | New Testament | Modern English | 1958 | ||
| The New Testament: A Translation (2nd edition)[12] | New Testament | Modern English | 2017, 2023 | Primarily, theCritical Text of the New Testament (NASB28 & UBS5) but also theMajority Text, especially "thePatriarchal Text of the Greek Orthodox church from 1904".[12]: xxxix–xxxx | This translation is by the AmericanEastern Orthodox scholar and writerDavid Bentley Hart. Hart translatesChristos as "Anointed" andIoudaios as "Judaean" rather than as "Jew".[12]: xxv, 549–550 In 2019, the first edition of Hart's translation was the subject of a session of the annual meeting of theSociety of Biblical Literature with three of the presented papers being subsequently published inThe Bible Translator.[13] |
| TheOpen English Bible | New Testament | Modern English | In Progress (2010) | Twentieth Century New Testament (English),Wescott-Hort (Greek),Leningrad Codex (Hebrew) | Aiming to be the first modern public domain translation, with the NT edited from the public domainTwentieth Century New Testament and the OT newly translated. |
| Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible (JST) | Modern English | 1844 | Revision of the King James Version | Also called the "Inspired Version" (IV) byLatter Day Saints | |
| Third Millennium Bible (The New Authorized Version) | New Testament, Old Testament, Apocrypha. | Modern English | 1998 | Revision of the King James Version. | |
| Torah and Former Prophets, translated by William Whitt | Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) | Modern English | 2018–2025 | Masoretic Text (with special focus on theAleppo Codex) | Organizes the text by the Masoretic section divisions (parashot) rather than the traditional Christian chapter divisions. All nine books have been published: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings;[14] all are open access and accessible athttps://archive.org. |
| Twentieth Century New Testament | New Testament | Modern English | 1904 | Greek text ofWestcott andHort. | |
| TheUnvarnished New Testament | New Testament | Modern English | 1991 | ||
| Wuest Expanded Translation | New Testament | Modern English | 1961 | Nestle-Aland Text |
| Bible | Abbr. | English variant | Date | Source | Notes | Denominational |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 365 Day Bible | 365DB | Modern English | 2020 | Modern revision of World English Bible | This version ispublic domain. | |
| American Standard Version | ASV | Modern English | 1901 | Masoretic Text, Westcott and Hort 1881 and Tregelles 1857 | This version is now in thepublic domain due to copyright expiration. | |
| Amplified Bible | AMP | Modern English | 1965 (first complete publication) | Revision of the American Standard Version | ||
| An American Translation | Modern English | 1935 | Masoretic Text, various Greek texts. | |||
| Beck's American Translation | Modern English | 1976 | Masoretic Text, various Greek texts. | Lutheran | ||
| Berean Standard Bible | BSB | Modern English | 2022 | Masoretic Text, various Greek texts. | Published by theBible Hub website. Released in the Public Domain. | |
| Majority Standard Bible | MSB | Modern English | 2022 | Masoretic Text, Robinson-Pierpont Majority Text | Byzantine Majority Text version of the Berean Standard Bible. Released in the Public Domain. | |
| Berkeley Version | Modern English | 1958 | ||||
| Bible in Basic English | BBE | Modern English | 1949 | Basic English translation of theKing James Version. | Translated by ProfessorS. H. Hooke, the BBE uses a simplified vocabulary of 1000 English words. | |
| The Bible in Living English | Modern English | 1972 | Jehovah's Witnesses | |||
| Bishops' Bible | Early Modern English | 1568 | Masoretic Text,Textus Receptus | Anglican,Calvinist, Presbyterian | ||
| Children's King James Version | Modern English | 1962 | Revision of the King James Version. | byJay P. Green | ||
| Christian Community Bible, English version | CCB | Modern English | 1988 | Hebrew and Greek | English version of theBiblia Latinoamericana translated by Fr.Bernardo Hurault. | Roman Catholic |
| Christian Standard Bible | CSB | Modern English | 2017 | Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia,Novum Testamentum Graece 28th Edition (NA28), United Bible Societies 5th Edition (UBS5). | The new Christian Standard Bible (CSB) is a major Baptist revision of the 2009 edition of theHolman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) | Baptist |
| Clear Word Bible | Modern English | 1994 | Paraphrase | Unofficial Adventist | ||
| Common English Bible | CEB | Modern English | 2011 | |||
| Complete Jewish Bible | CJB | Modern English | 1998 | Paraphrase of the Jewish Publication Society of America Version (Old Testament), and from Greek (New Testament) text. | Messianic Judaism | |
| Contemporary English Version | CEV | Modern English | 1995 | Protestant | ||
| Concordant Literal Version | CLV | Modern English | 1926 Revised 1931, 1966 | Restored Greek syntax. A concordance of every form of every Greek word was made and systematized and turned into English. The whole Greek vocabulary was analyzed and translated, using a standard English equivalent for each Greek element. | ||
| Coverdale Bible | TCB | Early Modern English | 1535 | Masoretic Text, the GreekNew Testament of Erasmus, Vulgate, and German and Swiss-German Bibles (Luther Bible,Zürich Bible andLeo Jud's Bible) | First complete Bible printed in English (Early Modern English) | Anglican |
| CTS New Catholic Bible (Catholic Truth Society edition) | CTS-NCB | Modern English | 2007 | Revision ofNew Jerusalem Bible. | Roman Catholic and Anglican | |
| Darby Bible | DBY | Modern English | 1890 | Masoretic Text, various critical editions of the Greek text (i.a. Tregelles, Tischendorf, Westcott and Hort). | This Bible version is now Public Domain due to copyright expiration. | Not associated with any church. Because of the short version of the title on the Darby Bible, which is New Translation, it is often confused with a translation done decades later by the Jehovah's Witnesses organization named the New World Translation. |
| Divine Name King James Bible[15] | DNKJB | Early Modern English | 2011 | Masoretic Text, Textus Receptus | Authorized King James Version which restores the Divine Name, Jehovah to the original text in 6,973 places, Jah in 50 places and Jehovah also appears in parentheses in the New Testament wherever the New Testament cross references a quote from the Old Testament in 297 places. Totaling to 7,320 places. | Messianic Judaism |
| Douay–Rheims Bible | DRB | Early Modern English | 1582 (NT) 1609–1610 (OT) | Latin Vulgate, Greek, and Hebrew manuscripts. | This work is now Public Domain. | Roman Catholic |
| Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner Revision) | DRB | Early Modern English | 1752 | Clementine Vulgate | This Bible version is now Public Domain due to copyright expiration. | Roman Catholic |
| EasyEnglish Bible | EASY | Modern English | 2018 | Masoretic Text, Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece | Translated by MissionAssist | |
| Easy-to-Read Version | Modern English | 1989 | Textus Receptus, United Bible Society (UBS) Greek text,Nestle-Aland Text | Christian | ||
| Emphasized Bible | EBR | Modern English | 1902 | Translated byJoseph Bryant Rotherham based onThe New Testament in the Original Greek andChristian David Ginsburg'sMassoretico-critical edition of the Hebrew Bible (1894) | Uses various methods, such as "emphatic idiom" and special diacritical marks, to bring out nuances of the underlying Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic texts. Public Domain due to copyright expiration. | Christian |
| English Standard Version | ESV | Modern English | 2001 (revisions in 2007, 2011, and 2016) | Derived from the 1971 edition of the Revised Standard Version.[16] Based onBiblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (5th ed., 1997); UBSGreek New Testament (5th corrected ed.); andNovum Testamentum Graece (28th ed., 2012).[17] | Adheres to an "essentially literal" translation philosophy. Attempts wherever possible for the Old Testament "to translate difficult Hebrew passages as they stand in the Masoretic text rather than resorting to emendations or to finding an alternative reading in the ancient versions."[17] | Protestant |
| English Standard Version Catholic Edition | ESV-CE | Modern English | 2018 | Catholic edition of the English Standard Version. | Includes thedeuterocanonical books. | Roman Catholic |
| Evangelical Heritage Version | EHV | Modern English | 2019 | Lutheran | ||
| Expanded Bible | EXB | Modern English | 2011 | The base text is a modified version of the New Century Version. | Offers alternate translations alongside the main translation | |
| Ferrar Fenton Bible | Modern English | 1903 | Masoretic Text andWestcott-Hort | |||
| Free Bible Version | FBV | Modern English | 2018 | Novum Testamentum Graece[18] | Released underCreative Commons license (BY-SA)[19] | |
| Geneva Bible | GEN | Early Modern English | 1557 (NT) 1560 (complete Bible) | Masoretic Text,Textus Receptus | First English Bible with whole of Old Testament translated direct from Hebrew texts | Puritan |
| God's Word | GW | Modern English | 1995 | Lutheran and Christian | ||
| Good News Bible | GNB | Modern English | 1976 | United Bible Societies (UBS) Greek text | Formerly known asToday's English Version | |
| Great Bible | Early Modern English | 1539 | Masoretic Text, Greek New Testament of Erasmus, the Vulgate, and theLuther Bible. | Anglican | ||
| The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary | Modern English | 2018 | Masoretic Text | Robert Alter's translation of the Hebrew Bible | ||
| Holman Christian Standard Bible | HCSB | Modern English | 2004 | Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia,Novum Testamentum Graece 27th Edition, United Bible Societies 4th Edition. | Southern Baptist | |
| The Inclusive Bible | Modern English | 2009 | Translation done by Priests for Equality of theQuixote Center. | |||
| International Standard Version | ISV | Modern English | 2011 | |||
| Jerusalem Bible | JB | Modern English | 1966 | From the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, with influence from the FrenchLa Bible de Jérusalem. | This Bible was heavily influenced by the French original, and the commentary was a verbatim translation of the French | Roman Catholic |
| Jewish Publication Society of America Version Tanakh | JPS | Modern English | 1917 | Masoretic Text | The Old Testament translation is based on the Hebrew Masoretic text. It follows the edition ofSeligman Baer except for the books of Exodus to Deuteronomy, which never appeared in Baer's edition. For those books, C. D. Ginsburg's Hebrew text was used. This Bible version is now Public Domain due to copyright expiration. | Judaism |
| Jubilee Bible | JUB | Modern English | 2000 | Aims for a unique English word for each original Hebrew and Greek word. Influenced by Spanish Bible translations by Casiodoro de Reina (1569), Francisco de Enzinas (1543), and Juan Pérez de Pineda (1557). | Published by Ransom Press International, Russell Stendal, translator and editor. | |
| Judaica Press Tanakh | Modern English | 1963 | Masoretic Text | Orthodox Judaism | ||
| Julia E. Smith Parker Translation | Modern English | 1876 | Masoretic Text,Textus Receptus | Congregationalist | ||
| King James Version (a.k.a. the Authorized Version) | KJV | Early Modern English | 1611, 1769 | Masoretic Text,Textus Receptus, Tyndale 1526 NT, some Erasmus manuscripts, and Bezae 1598 TR. | Public domain in most of the world. Crown copyright in the United Kingdom due to crown letters patent until 2039, and all countries which have international mutual copyright recognition agreements. | Anglican |
| Knox Bible | Modern English | 1955. | Vulgate, with influence from the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. | Translated by Msgr.Ronald Knox. | Roman Catholic | |
| Lamsa Bible | Modern English | 1933 | Syriac Peshitta | |||
| Leeser Bible, Tanakh (Old Testament) | Modern English | 1994 | Masoretic Text | Orthodox Judaism,Conservative Judaism, and Protestant Episcopal[citation needed] | ||
| Legacy Standard Bible | LSB | Modern English | 2021 | Masoretic Text,Nestle-Aland Text | Published by Three Sixteen Publishing, Inc. and the Lockman Foundation. | Evangelical Protestant |
| Lexham English Bible | LEB | Modern English | 2012 | SBL Greek New Testament | A relatively literal translation fromLogos Bible Software. | |
| Literal Standard Version | LSV | Modern English | 2020 | Masoretic Text,Septuagint,Dead Sea Scrolls,Textus Receptus, other New Testament manuscripts consulted | Published by Covenant Press. It is the first English translation featuring continuous text-blocks similar to the autographs. It also makes use of thecaesura mark and the transliteratedTetragrammaton. | |
| A Literal Translation of the Bible | LITV | Modern English | 1985 | Masoretic Text, Textus Receptus (Estienne 1550) | byJay P. Green | |
| The Living Bible | TLB | Modern English | 1971 | American Standard Version (paraphrase) | Evangelical Protestant Roman Catholic (Version) | |
| The Living Torah andThe Living Nach. Tanakh | Modern English | 1994 | Masoretic Text | Orthodox Judaism | ||
| LOLCat Bible Translation Project | LOLspeak | 2010 | ||||
| Matthew's Bible | Early Modern English | 1537 | Masoretic Text, the Greek New Testament of Erasmus, the Vulgate, the Luther Bible, and a 1535 bible from France. | |||
| The Message | MSG | Modern English | 2002 | Aparaphrase into contemporary language and idiom byEugene Peterson. | traditional Protestant Roman Catholic (Version) | |
| Mickelson Clarified Translation[20] | MCT | Modern English Dialect | 2008, 2013, 2015, 2019 | "Clarified Textus Receptus"[21]—including theMasoretic Text,Textus Receptus, MCT Octuagint,[22][23] and the MCT Brit Chadashah;[24] with contextual dictionaries and concordances. | States "A precise and unabridged translation of the 'Clarified Textus Receptus' -- including Hebrew OT to English, Greek NT to English, Hebrew OT to Greek OT(the MCT Octuagint) to English, and Greek NT to Hebrew NT(the MCT Brit Chadashah)". The translation methodology is:"Concept for concept, Context for context, Word for word."[20] Published in "the Literary Reading Order"[25] by LivingSon Press[26] | |
| Modern English Version | MEV | Modern English | 2014 | Masoretic Text, Textus Receptus | Revision of the King James Bible | Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant[citation needed] |
| Modern Language Bible | Modern English | 1969 | Also called "The New Berkeley Version" | |||
| Moffatt, New Translation | Modern English | 1926 | Greek text ofHermann von Soden | |||
| Names of God Bible | NOG | Modern English (GW) & Early Modern English (KJV) | 2011. 2014 | GW edition: NT:Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament 27th edition. OT:Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. KJV edition: OT:Masoretic Text, NT:Textus Receptus. | By Ann Spangler, The Names of God Bible restores the transliterations of ancient names—such as Yahweh, El Shadday, El Elyon, and Adonay—to help the reader better understand the rich meaning of God's names that are found in the original Hebrew and Aramaic text. | |
| New American Bible | NAB | Modern English | 1970, 1986 (revised NT), 1991 (revised Psalms) | Roman Catholic | ||
| New American Bible Revised Edition | NABRE | Modern English | 2011 | Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia for the Hebrew Bible,Dead Sea Scrolls consulted and referenced,Septuagint also consulted and compared for the OT and Deuterocanonicals,the Latin Vulgate for some parts of the Deuterocanonicals, and theUnited Bible Societies 3rd edition (UBS3) cross referenced to the 26th edition of the Greek New Testament (NA26) for the New Testament | The NABRE is the latest official English Catholic Bible translation released. An update to it (mainly to the New Testament as of now) is scheduled for release in 2025. | Roman Catholic |
| New American Standard Bible | NASB | Modern English | 1971, 1995, 2020 | Masoretic Text, Nestle-Aland Text | Evangelical Protestant | |
| New Catholic Bible (Saint Joseph edition) | NCB | Modern English | 2015 (New Testament), 2019 (Complete Bible) | Roman Catholic | ||
| New Century Version | NCV | Modern English | 1991 | |||
| New Community Bible | NCB | Modern English | 2008 | Revision ofChristian Community Bible. | Roman Catholic | |
| New English Bible | NEB | Modern English | 1970 | Masoretic Text, Greek New Testament | ||
| New English Translation (NET Bible) | NET | Modern English | 2005 | Masoretic Text, Nestle-Aland/United Bible Society Greek New Testament | ||
| New International Reader's Version | NIrV | Modern English | 1998 | New International Version (simplified syntax, but loss of conjunctions obscures meanings) | ||
| New International Version Inclusive Language Edition | NIVI | Modern English | 1996 | Revision of the New International Version. | ||
| New International Version | NIV | Modern English | 1978, 1984, 2011 | Masoretic Text, Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament (based on Westcott-Hort, Weiss and Tischendorf, 1862). | Protestant | |
| New Jerusalem Bible | NJB | Modern English | 1985 | From the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, with influence from the FrenchLa Bible de Jérusalem. | An update to the 1966 Jerusalem Bible which uses more extensive gender neutral language | Roman Catholic |
| New Jewish Publication Society of America Version. Tanakh | NJPS | Modern English | 1985 | Masoretic Text | ||
| New King James Version | NKJV | Modern English | 1982 | Masoretic Text (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 1983), Textus Receptus | Evangelical, Protestant | |
| New Life Version | NLV | Modern English | 1986 | |||
| New Living Translation | NLT | Modern English | 1996 (revisions in 2004, 2007, 2013, and 2015) | Evangelical, Protestant, Roman Catholic (Version) | ||
| New Revised Standard Version | NRSV | Modern English | 1989 2021 (Updated Edition) | Revision of theRevised Standard Version. | Mainline Protestant | |
| New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures | NWT | Modern English | 1950 (New Testament) 1960 (single volume complete Bible) 1984 (reference edition with footnotes) 2013 (revised) 2018 (Study Bible) | Westcott and Hort's Greek New Testament, Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, Hebrew J documents, as well as various other families of Hebrew and Greek manuscripts. | This is the version of theJehovah's Witnesses bible published by theWatch Tower Bible & Tract Society | Jehovah's Witnesses |
| The Orthodox Jewish Bible | OJB | Modern English | 2002 | Messianic Judaism | ||
| TheOrthodox Study Bible | OSB | Modern English | 2008 | Septuagint by St. Athanasius Academy for the Old Testament and the New King James Version for the New Testament. | Eastern Orthodox | |
| Quaker Bible | Modern English | 1764 | Masoretic Text, Textus Receptus | |||
| Recovery Version of the Bible | Modern English | 1985 (NT w/ footnotes, revised 1991) 1993 (NT, text only) 1999 (single volume complete Bible, text only) 2003 (single volume complete Bible w/ footnotes) | OT:Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS; revised 1990 edition). NT:Novum Testamentum Graece (Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, 26th edition) | A study Bible with a modern English translation of the Scriptures from their original languages. Comparable to theEnglish Standard Version and theNew American Standard Bible. | Local churches (affiliation) | |
| Revised New Jerusalem Bible | RNJB | Modern English | 2018 (New Testament), 2019 (Complete Bible) | Revision of theNew Jerusalem Bible. | Roman Catholic | |
| Revised Version, also English Revised Version | RV, also ERV | Modern English | 1885 | Revision of the King James Version, but with acritical New Testament text: Westcott and Hort 1881 and Tregelles 1857 | Anglican | |
| Revised Standard Version | RSV | Modern English | 1946 (New Testament), 1952 (Complete Bible) | Masoretic Text,Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament. | Revision of theAmerican Standard Version. | Mainline Protestant Roman Catholic (see below) |
| Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition | RSV-CE | Modern English | 1965 (New Testament), 1966 (Complete Bible) | Reordering ofDeuterocanonical Books of the Revised Standard Version to reflect traditional book order with other Old Testament Books. | Roman Catholic | |
| Revised Standard Version - Second Catholic Edition | RSV-2CE | Modern English | 2006 | The RSV-2CE is a slight update of the 1966 Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition | It removes archaic pronouns (thee, thou) and accompanying verb forms (didst, speaketh), revises passages used in the lectionary according to the Vatican document Liturgiam authenticam and elevates some passages out of RSV footnotes when they reflect Catholic teaching. For instance, the RSV-2CE renders "almah" as "virgin" in Isaiah 7:14, restores the term "begotten" in John 3:16 and other verses, uses the phrase "full of grace" instead of "favored one" in Luke 1:28, and substitutes "mercy" for "steadfast love" (translated from the Hebrew hesed) throughout the Psalms. As with the original RSV, gender-neutral language is not used when it has no direct referent in original language of the text. | Roman Catholic |
| Revised English Bible | REB | Modern English | 1989 | Revision of the New English Bible. | ||
| The Scriptures | Modern English & Hebrew (Divine Names) | 1993, revised 1998 & revised 2009 | Masoretic Text (Biblia Hebraica), Textus Receptus Greek text | Sacred Name Bible translation by the Institute for Scripture Research | ||
| Simple English Bible | Modern English. | 1978. 1980. | This version is based on a limited 3000 word vocabulary and everyday sentence structure - it is also known as "the Plain English Bible, the International English Bible, and the God Chasers Extreme New Testament" | |||
| The Story Bible | Modern English | 1971 | A summary/paraphrase, by Pearl S. Buck | |||
| Taverner's Bible | Early Modern English | 1539 | Minor revision ofMatthew's Bible | |||
| The Holy Bible: Jah International Version: The Sacred Scriptures of Rastafari | JIV | Modern English | 2017 | Rastafari | ||
| Thomson's Translation | Modern English | 1808 | Codex Vaticanus (according to the introduction in the reprint edition by S. F. Pells) of the Septuagint (but excluding the Apocrypha) and of the New Testament | |||
| Today's New International Version | TNIV | Modern English | 2005 | Masoretic Text (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 1983), Nestle-Aland Greek text | Revision of the New International Version. | |
| Third Millennium Bible | Modern English | 1998 | Revision of the King James Version. | |||
| Tree of Life Bible[27] | TLB | Modern English | 2014 | Masoretic Text, the 27th Nestle-AlandNovum Testamentum Graece | The Old Testament translation is based on the Hebrew Masoretic text. It follows the edition of Seligman Baer except for the books of Exodus to Deuteronomy, which never appeared in Baer's edition. For those books, C. D. Ginsburg's Hebrew text was used. | Messianic Judaism |
| The Voice Bible | VOICE | Modern English | 2012 | "The heart of the project is retelling the story of the Bible in a form as fluid as modern literary works while remaining painstakingly true to the original Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic texts." | ||
| Webster's Revision | Modern English | 1833 | Revision of the King James Version. | |||
| Westminster Version of Sacred Scripture[28] | WVSS | Modern English | 1913 (first volumes of the NT) 1915, 1935 (various volumes and editions of the WVSS were published from 1913 - 1935) | Greek and Hebrew | This was an early Catholic attempt to translate the Bible into English from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek languages instead of from the Latin Vulgate. Was partially translated and released in various versions with the Douay-Rheims making up whatever books were not yet translated. | |
| World English Bible[29] | WEB | Modern English | 2000–2022 | Based on the American Standard Version first published in 1901, the Biblia Hebraica Stutgartensa Old Testament, and the Greek Majority Text New Testament. | Released into the public domain by Rainbow Missions, Inc. (nonprofit corporation)[29] | Ecumenical |
| World Messianic Bible (Formerly called the Hebrew Names Version) | WMB (or HNV) | Modern English | 2000–2022 | Derived from the World English Bible mostly by substituting Hebrew forms of certain names for their Greek/English equivalents. | Released into the public domain by Rainbow Missions, Inc. (nonprofit corporation)[30] | Messianic Judaism |
| Wycliffe's Bible (1388) | WYC | Middle English | 1388 | Latin Vulgate | Protestant excluding Anglican | |
| Young's Literal Translation | YLT | Modern English | 1862 | Masoretic Text, Textus Receptus | This Bible version is now public domain due to copyright expiration. |
Translations fromSyriac to English include:
This list does not include adaptations of such as theHebraic Roots Version by James Trimm (2001) which are adaptations from the JPS New Testament (translated directly from Greek into Hebrew), not the Peshitta.
The starting point for the ESV translation was the 1971 edition of the Revised Standard Version (RSV).
One was by James Murdock and the other by J. W. Etheridge. Murdock based his work on the western text and Etheridge on the eastern text. Both of them are still very useful in studying the Peshitta. In the 1930s, Dr. George Lamsa, a native speaker of Aramaic, completed a translation of the eastern manuscripts of the Peshitta and began to travel extensively in the United States, teaching about the value of studying Aramaic. From that time until the present, there has been a renewed ...