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About our Online Bible Our Online Bible has been translated into modern English by over 50 evangelical scholars from multiple denominations. As with all other translations, much prayer was offered for guidance. Our contribution has been very minor (less than 1%), but we felt extremely blessed to contribute to this project. The Old Testament texts of the Online Bible are based upon the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, which was produced from the Leningrad Codex, the oldest complete codex of the Masoretic Text that has survived intact to this day. The BHS is widely regarded, by both Christians and Jews, as an accurate edition of the Hebrew scriptures, and is the most widely used edition among biblical scholars today. The New Testament texts are based primarily on the Byzantine Majority Text (MT); however, both the Textus Receptus (TR), and the Nestle-Aland/UBS text (NU) were also consulted. The MT is the text type found in, by far, the largest number of surviving Greek manuscripts. The NU (like the MT) is an eclectic Greek text, that is, the translations were selected and compiled from multiple manuscripts. The MT was compiled from the Byzantine (or Constantinopolitan) manuscripts and the NU from the Alexandrian manuscripts. The TR is the Greek text which was used as the translation base of the KJV and most other NT translations during the era of the Reformation. The NU is the translation base for the NIV. Differences between these texts, though numerous, are small, and often make no difference in meaning. None affect any essential doctrine that cannot be supported with other Scripture passages where there is no dispute over the wording. We have noted many of the differences in the various footnotes. We've also provided a link at the bottom of each page for reporting typos or any other issues.
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