{"id":1945,"date":"2013-10-12T18:34:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T18:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2013\/10\/12\/revised-new-world-translation-of-the-holy-scriptures\/"},"modified":"2013-10-12T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T18:34:07","slug":"revised-new-world-translation-of-the-holy-scriptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/revised-new-world-translation-of-the-holy-scriptures\/","title":{"rendered":"Revised New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; margin-top: 1.25em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\">During a special meeting held on October\u00a05, 2013, Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses announced the release of a revised English edition of the\u00a0<em style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures<\/em>. The current New World Bible Translation Committee responded to changes in modern language by reflecting these in the text and clarifying certain Biblical expressions, enhancing readability and understanding. Based on further examination of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient manuscripts, this revision also includes six additional occurrences of the divine name: Judges 19:18; 1\u00a0Samuel 2:25; 6:3; 10:26; 23:14; 23:16. A PDF of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jw.org\/en\/publications\/bible\/\">printed edition<\/a>as well as an electronic version in the new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jw.org\/en\/online-help\/jw-library\/\"><em style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">JW Library<\/em><\/a>\u00a0application are available for download, free of charge, at www.jw.org.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; margin-top: 1.25em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><em style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Media Contact(s):<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">International: J.\u00a0R.\u00a0Brown, Office of Public Information, tel. +1\u00a0718\u00a0560\u00a05000<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a special meeting held on October\u00a05, 2013, Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses announced the release of a revised English edition of the\u00a0New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. The current New World Bible Translation Committee responded to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}