The purpose of the EasyEnglish Bible is to make the Bible as clear as possible in simple English. We have used a basic vocabulary of 1200 well-known English words. It is a very good Bible for anyone who is learning English or speaks English as a foreign language.
To help you even more, the EasyEnglish Bible website – www.easyenglish.bible – has Commentaries and Bible Studies to help you understand the message of the Bible and apply it to your life.
To make the Bible as easy as possible to understand, we have used:
We have avoided things that can be hard to understand, so we have used:
The EasyEnglish Bible is a “meaning-for-meaning” translation not a “word-for-word” translation.
These translation principles have been developed by Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT) and SIL.
The EasyEnglish Bible has been translated by MissionAssist, which is a Christian charity based in the United Kingdom. MissionAssist is part of the Wycliffe Global Alliance (WGA) and a member of Global Connections.
The EasyEnglish Bible translation team includes:
We have used a range of English Bible translations as a base. Where English versions have a different understanding of the original text, we have referred to the Hebrew or Greek text, using the texts published and updated by United Bible Societies (UBS):
We also use the resources provided by Wycliffe Bible Translators to help translators and checkers understand the issues involved in translating the original texts.
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The text has been converted to Sword module form by the STEP project of Tyndale House Cambridge UK.
Text last modified 27-Feb-2019.
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