List of Major English Bible Translations

List of Incomplete Bibles

VULGATE = LATIN version of the Bible by the Roman Catholics by St. Jerome 4th century.

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 the Vespasian Psalter and Eadwine Psalter	English glosses of Latin psalters		9th century	Vulgate
King Alfred	Pentateuch, including the Ten Commandments; possibly also the Psalms	Old English	c. 900	Vulgate
Aldred the Scribe	Northumbrian interlinear gloss on the Gospels in the Lindisfarne Gospels	Old English	950 to 970	Vulgate
Farman	Gloss on the Gospel of Matthew in the Rushworth 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
The Ormulum	Some passages from the Gospels and the Acts 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", in The 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.

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Septuagint = Greek translation of the Hebrew OT.  Abbreviated as LXX (meaning 70;

Seventy or 72 alleged translators. Completed 200-100 BC.  Used by Orthodox Church. 

Bible	Content	English variant	Year	Source	Notes
The Living Oracles	New Testament	Modern English	1826	Compiled and translated by Alexander Campbell based translations by George Campbell, James MacKnight and Philip Doddridge, with reference to the 1805 critical Greek text by Johann Jakob Griesbach	Replaces traditional ecclesiastical terminology such as "church", "bishop" and "baptise" with alternative translations such as "congregation", "overseer" and "immerse".
Brenton's English Translation of the Septuagint	Old Testament	Modern English	1844	Septuagint
Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible (JST)		Modern English	1844	Revision of the King James Version	Also called the "Inspired Version" (IV) by Latter Day Saints
The Emphatic Diaglott	New Testament	Modern English	1864	Greek text recension by Dr Johann Jakob Griesbach
Twentieth Century New Testament	New Testament	Modern English	1904	Greek text of Westcott and Hort.
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 scholar William Gunion Rutherford
James Moffatt's 'The New Testament, A New Translation'	New Testament	Modern English	1913	Greek text of Hermann von Soden
Helen Barrett Montgomery, Centenary Translation of the New Testament	New Testament	Modern English	1924
Confraternity Bible	New Testament	Modern English	1941	Revision of the Challoner Revision of the Rheims 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 the New American Bible
Phillips New Testament in Modern English	New Testament	Modern English	1958
Wuest Expanded Translation	New Testament	Modern English	1961	Nestle-Aland Text
The New Testament translated by Richmond Lattimore	New Testament	Modern English	1962–1982 (Compiled in one volume in 1996)	Wescott-Hort Text By Richmond Lattimore. (ISBN 978-0865474994)
Grail Psalms	Book of Psalms	Modern English	1963 (revised 2008)	French La Bible de Jérusalem [fr]	Translated according to the principles of Gelineau psalmody. Used for liturgical worship by the Catholic Church.
Bible in Worldwide English	New Testament	Modern English	1969
God's New Covenant: A New Testament Translation	New Testament	Modern English	1989
The Unvarnished New Testament	New Testament	Modern English	1991
Third Millennium Bible (The New Authorized Version)	New Testament, Old Testament, Apocrypha.	Modern English	1998	Revision of the King James Version.
The Common Edition New Testament	New Testament	Modern English	1999
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 a study bible having extensive annotation, a historical practice of textual scholarship to assist understanding in context. In this case, the period of early Christianity. For example, explaining the literal Aramaic of “Jesus” as “Y'shua”. The Aramaic is featured with Hebrew letters and vowel pointing.
The Kingdom New Testament: A Contemporary Translation	New Testament	Modern English	2011	Eclectic Greek	By NT Wright.[4] (ISBN 978-0-06-206491-2)
A New New Testament: A Bible for the Twenty-first Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts	New Testament and a selection of NT 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 the Nag 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.[5] Edited and with commentary by biblical scholar Hal Taussig.
Torah and Former Prophets, translated by William Whitt	Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)	Modern English	2018–2024 (in progress)	Masoretic text (with special focus on the Aleppo Codex)	Organizes the text by the Masoretic section divisions (parashot) rather than the traditional Christian chapter divisions. Eight books currently published: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and Samuel;[6] all are open access and accessible at https://archive.org.
First Nations Version	Gospels	Indigenous English	2021
Messianic Aleph Tav Scriptures[3]	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.
The Open 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 domain Twentieth Century New Testament and the OT newly translated.
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

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Complete Bibles

Bible	Abbr.	English variant	Date	Source	Notes	Denominational
Wycliffe's Bible (1388)	WYC	Middle English	1388	Latin Vulgate		Protestant excluding Anglican
Coverdale Bible	TCB	Early Modern English	1535	Masoretic Text, the Greek New Testament of Erasmus, Vulgate, and German and Swiss-German Bibles (Luther Bible, Zürich Bible and Leo Jud's Bible)	First complete Bible printed in English (Early Modern English)
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.
Great Bible		Early Modern English	1539	Masoretic Text, Greek New Testament of Erasmus, the Vulgate, and the Luther Bible.		Roman Catholic and Anglican
Taverner's Bible		Early Modern English	1539		Minor revision of Matthew's Bible
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
Bishops' Bible		Early Modern English	1568	Masoretic Text, Textus Receptus		Anglican, Calvinist, Presbyterian
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
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, Puritan, Evangelical Protestant, Latter-Day Saint Eastern and Oriental Orthodox. There are congregations, notably Independent/Fundamental Baptists, that use the KJV exclusively.
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
Quaker Bible		Modern English	1764	Masoretic Text, Textus Receptus
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
Webster's Revision		Modern English	1833		Revision of the King James Version.
Young's Literal Translation	YLT	Modern English	1862	Masoretic Text, Textus Receptus	This Bible version is now public domain due to copyright expiration.
Julia E. Smith Parker Translation		Modern English	1876	Masoretic Text, Textus Receptus		Congregationalist
Revised Version, also English Revised Version	RV, also ERV	Modern English	1885		Revision of the King James Version, but with a critical New Testament text: Westcott and Hort 1881 and Tregelles 1857
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.
American Standard Version	ASV	Modern English	1901	Masoretic Text, Westcott and Hort 1881 and Tregelles 1857	This version is now in the public domain due to copyright expiration.
Emphasized Bible	EBR	Modern English	1902	Translated by Joseph Bryant Rotherham based on The New Testament in the Original Greek and Christian David Ginsburg's Massoretico-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
Ferrar Fenton Bible		Modern English	1903	Masoretic Text and Westcott-Hort
Westminster Version of Sacred Scripture[20]	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.
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 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. This Bible version is now Public Domain due to copyright expiration.	Judaism
Moffatt, New Translation		Modern English	1926	Greek text of Hermann von Soden
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.
Lamsa Bible		Modern English	1933	Syriac Peshitta
An American Translation		Modern English	1935	Masoretic Text, various Greek texts.
Revised Standard Version	RSV	Modern English	1946 (New Testament), 1952 (Complete Bible)	Masoretic Text, Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament.	Revision of the American Standard Version.	Mainline Protestant Roman Catholic (see below)
Bible in Basic English	BBE	Modern English	1949		Translated by Professor S. H. Hooke, the BBE uses a simplified vocabulary of 1000 words.
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 the Jehovah's Witnessesbible published by the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society	Jehovah's Witnesses
Knox Bible		Modern English	1955.	Vulgate, with influence from the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.	Translated by Msgr. Ronald Knox.	Roman Catholic
Berkeley Version		Modern English	1958
Children's King James Version		Modern English	1962	Revision of the King James Version.	by Jay P. Green
Judaica Press Tanakh		Modern English	1963	Masoretic Text		Orthodox Judaism
Amplified Bible	AMP	Modern English	1965 (first complete publication)	Revision of the American Standard Version
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition	RSV-CE	Modern English	1965 (New Testament), 1966 (Complete Bible)		Reordering of Deuterocanonical Books of the Revised Standard Version to reflect traditional book order with other Old Testament Books.	Roman Catholic
Jerusalem Bible	JB	Modern English	1966	From the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, with influence from the French La Bible de Jérusalem.	This Bible was heavily influenced by the French original, and the commentary was a verbatim translation of the French	Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopal, Anglican, and liberal + moderate Protestants
Modern Language Bible		Modern English	1969		Also called "The New Berkeley Version"
New English Bible	NEB	Modern English	1970	Masoretic Text, Greek New Testament
New American Bible	NAB	Modern English	1970, 1986 (revised NT), 1991 (revised Psalms)			Roman Catholic
The Living Bible	TLB	Modern English	1971	American Standard Version (paraphrase)		Evangelical Protestant Roman Catholic(Version)
The Story Bible		Modern English	1971		A summary/paraphrase, by Pearl S. Buck
New American Standard Bible	NASB	Modern English	1971, 1995, 2020	Masoretic Text, Nestle-Aland Text		Evangelical Protestant
The Bible in Living English		Modern English	1972			Jehovah's Witnesses
Beck's American Translation		Modern English	1976	Masoretic Text, various Greek texts.		Lutheran
Good News Bible	GNB	Modern English	1976	United Bible Societies (UBS) Greek text	Formerly known as Today's English 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
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"
New King James Version	NKJV	Modern English	1982	Masoretic Text (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 1983), Textus Receptus		Protestant, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox
A Literal Translation of the Bible	LITV	Modern English	1985	Masoretic Text, Textus Receptus (Estienne 1550)	by Jay P. Green
New Jerusalem Bible	NJB	Modern English	1985	From the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, with influence from the French La 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
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 the English Standard Version and the New American Standard Bible.	Local churches (affiliation)
New Life Version	NLV	Modern English	1986
Christian Community Bible, English version	CCB	Modern English	1988	Hebrew and Greek	English version of the Biblia Latinoamericanatranslated by Fr. Bernardo Hurault.	Roman Catholic
Easy-to-Read Version		Modern English	1989	Textus Receptus, United Bible Society (UBS) Greek text, Nestle-Aland Text		Christian
Revised English Bible	REB	Modern English	1989		Revision of the New English Bible.
New Revised Standard Version	NRSV	Modern English	1989  2021 (Updated Edition)		Revision of the Revised Standard Version.	Mainline Protestant Roman Catholic (Version)
New Century Version	NCV	Modern English	1991
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
Clear Word Bible		Modern English	1994	Paraphrase		Unofficial Adventist
Leeser Bible, Tanakh (Old Testament)		Modern English	1994	Masoretic Text		Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism, and Protestant Episcopal[citation needed]
The Living Torah and The Living Nach. Tanakh		Modern English	1994	Masoretic Text		Orthodox Judaism
Contemporary English Version	CEV	Modern English	1995			Protestant
God's Word	GW	Modern English	1995			Lutheran and Christian
New International Version Inclusive Language Edition	NIVI	Modern English	1996	Revision of the New International Version.
New Living Translation	NLT	Modern English	1996 (revisions in 2004, 2007, 2013, and 2015)			Evangelical, Protestant, Roman Catholic (Version)
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
New International Reader's Version	NIrV	Modern English	1998		New International Version (simplified syntax, but loss of conjunctions obscures meanings)
Third Millennium Bible		Modern English	1998		Revision of the King James Version.
World English Bible[21]	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) [21]	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) [22]	Messianic Judaism
English Standard Version	ESV	Modern English	2001 (revisions in 2007, 2011, and 2016)	Derived from the 1971 edition of the Revised Standard Version.[8]Based on Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (5th ed., 1997); UBS Greek New Testament (5th corrected ed.); and Novum Testamentum Graece(28th ed., 2012).[9]	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."[9]	Reformed, Calvinist, Presbyterian, and Evangelical
The Message	MSG	Modern English	2002		A paraphrase into contemporary language and idiom by Eugene Peterson.	traditional Protestant Roman Catholic (Version)
The Orthodox Jewish Bible	OJB	Modern English	2002			Messianic Judaism
Holman Christian Standard Bible	HCSB	Modern English	2004	Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, Novum Testamentum Graece27th Edition, United Bible Societies 4th Edition.		Southern Baptist
New English Translation(NET Bible)	NET	Modern English	2005	Masoretic Text, Nestle-Aland/United Bible Society Greek 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.
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
CTS New Catholic Bible(Catholic Truth Societyedition)	CTS-NCB	Modern English	2007	Revision of New Jerusalem Bible.		Roman Catholic and Anglican
New Community Bible	NCB	Modern English	2008	Revision of Christian Community Bible.		Roman Catholic
The Orthodox 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
Mickelson Clarified Translation[12]	MCT	Modern English Dialect	2008, 2013, 2015, 2019	"Clarified Textus Receptus"[13]—including the Masoretic Text, Textus Receptus, MCT Octuagint,[14][15] and the MCT Brit Chadashah;[16]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."[12] Published in "the Literary Reading Order"[17] by LivingSon Press[18]
The Inclusive Bible		Modern English	2009		Translation done by Priests for Equality of the Quixote Center.
Common English Bible	CEB	Modern English	2011
Divine Name King James Bible[7]	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
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
International Standard Version	ISV	Modern English	2011
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 the United 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
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.
Lexham English Bible	LEB	Modern English	2012	SBL Greek New Testament	A relatively literal translation from Logos Bible Software.
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." (ISBN 1401680313)
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]
Tree of Life Bible[19]	TLB	Modern English	2014	Masoretic Text, the 27th Nestle-Aland Novum 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
Saint Joseph New Catholic Bible (Saint Joseph edition)	St Joseph NCB	Modern English	2015 (New Testament), 2019 (Complete Bible)			Roman Catholic
Christian Standard Bible	CSB	Modern English	2017	Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, Novum Testamentum Graece28th Edition (NA28), United Bible Societies 5th Edition (UBS5).	The new Christian Standard Bible (CSB) is a major interdenominational revision of the 2009 edition of the Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)	Protestant
The Holy Bible: Jah International Version: The Sacred Scriptures of Rastafari	JIV	Modern English	2017			Rastafari
EasyEnglish Bible	EASY	Modern English	2018	Masoretic Text, Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece	Translated by MissionAssist
English Standard Version Catholic Edition	ESV-CE	Modern English	2018	Catholic edition of the English Standard Version.	Includes the deuterocanonical books.	Roman Catholic
Free Bible Version	FBV	Modern English	2018	Novum Testamentum Graece[10]	Released under Creative Commons license(BY-SA)[11]
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary		Modern English	2018	Masoretic Text	Robert Alter's translation of the Hebrew Bible
Revised New Jerusalem Bible	RNJB	Modern English	2018 (New Testament), 2019 (Complete Bible)		Revision of the New Jerusalem Bible.	Roman Catholic
Evangelical Heritage Version	EHV	Modern English	2019			Lutheran and Evangelical Protestant
365 Day Bible	365DB	Modern English	2020	Modern revision of World English Bible	This version is public domain.
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 the caesura mark and the transliterated Tetragrammaton.
Legacy Standard Bible	LSB	Modern English	2021	Masoretic Text, Nestle-Aland Text	Published by Three Sixteen Publishing, Inc. and the Lockman Foundation.	Evangelical Protestant
Berean Standard Bible	BSB	Modern English	2022	Masoretic Text, various Greek texts.	Published by the Bible 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.

Chronological List of Major English Bible Translations 

by Luke Wayne | Oct 31, 2018 | Minor Groups & Issues, King James Onlyism

Date	Name	Abrv.	Comments
10th Century AD	West Saxon Gospels	n/a	Earliest surviving English translation.
			Translated from the Latin version.
			Contained only the gospels.
11th Century AD	Old English Hexateuch	n/a	Translated from the Latin version.
			Contained only the Hexateuch, meaning the first six books of the Old Testament (Genesis- Joshua).
11th Century AD	Old English Psalter	n/a	Translated from the Latin version.
			Contained only the Psalms. Exists in two versions, one in straightforward prose and the other in stylized verse.
14th Century AD	John Wycliffe Bible	WYC	Translated from the Latin Version.
			The first translation of the entire Bible in English.
1526	Tyndale New Testament	Tyndale	Translated by William Tyndale.
			The first translation into English from the Greek text.
			Contained only the New Testament.
1530	Tyndale Pentateuch	Tyndale	Translated by William Tyndale.
			The first translation into English from the Hebrew text.
			Contained only the Pentateuch, or the first five books of the Old Testament (Genesis-Deuteronomy).
1531	Tyndale Jonah	Tyndale	Translated by William Tyndale.
			Translated from the Hebrew text.
			Contained only the book of Jonah.
1535	Coverdale Bible	Coverdale	Translated by Miles Coverdale.
			The first complete Bible in modern English.
			New Testament was translated from the Greek text, but the Old Testament from Latin and German translations.
1537	Matthew Bible	Matthew	Translated by John Rogers under the pseudonym “Thomas Matthew.”
			Mostly a composite of the work done by Tyndale and Coverdale with minor edits.
1539	The Great Bible	n/a	Primarily translated by Miles Coverdale.
			First “authorized version,” or version sanctioned by the English Crown.
			Also known as the “Cranmer Bible” and “Whitchurch’s Bible.”
1560	The Geneva Bible	GNV	First English Bible translated entirely from the original languages.
			First English Bible translated by a committee.
			First English Bible to contain verse numbers.
1568	The Bishop’s Bible	Bishop	The second authorized version of the English Bible.
			Went through several substantial revisions.
1611	The King James Version	KJV	Also known as the “Authorized Version” or AV.
			Used the “Bishop’s Bible” as its starting point.
			Underwent a substantial revision in 1769, where it took the basic form it has today.
1885	The Revised Version	RV	Used the KJV as its starting point and made changes to bring it in line with later manuscript discoveries and linguistic studies.
1901	American Standard Version	ASV	A substantial revision of the RV.
			Especially known for its consistent use of the name “Jehovah” rather than the title “the LORD” in the Old Testament.
1952	Revised Standard Version	RSV	An often controversial translation, particularly for its rendering of Messianic passages like Isaiah 7:14 and Genesis 49:10, among others.
1971	New American Standard Bible	NASB	Used the ASV as its starting point.
			Considered by many to be the most literal and “word for word” of all the major translations.
			Underwent a notable update in 1995
			UPDATE: Two separate revisions of the ’95 NASB were released in 2020, one still known as the NASB and the other as the Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)
1978	New International Version	NIV	Fresh translation not based on a previous version.
			Underwent significant revisions in 1984 and 2011.
1982	New King James Version	NKJV	Based on the same Greek and Hebrews texts as the KJV, but rendered in 20th century English.
1989	New Revised Standard Version	NRSV	A significant update of the RSV.
			Often used by scholars but still controversial among many churches for the same reasons as its predecessor.
2001	English Standard Version	ESV	Used the RSV as its starting point.
			Made significant changes based on further manuscript discoveries and corrected many of the RSV’s problematic passages, such as Isaiah 7:14.
2004	Holman Christian Standard	HCSB	Fresh translation not based on any previous version.
			Especially known for its (somewhat inconsistent) use of the name Yahweh rather than the title “the LORD” in the Old Testament.
2006	New English Translation	NET	Fresh translation not based on any previous version.
			Especially known for its detailed notes on alternative readings in manuscripts and on how they arrived at their textual choices.
2014	Modern English Version	MEV	A contemporary English translation of the same Greek and Hebrew texts used in the KJV.
2017	Christian Standard Bible	CSB	A substantial revision of the HCSB.
			In most cases, the revisions brought the CSB closer in wording to other modern translations and away from the distinctive phrasing of the HCSB.

 

Post from https://carm.org/king-james-onlyism/chronological-list-of-major-english-bible-translations/

Quick History of How We Got The Bible https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-history-of-bible-translations.html?m=1

List of Major English Bible Translations https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2024/09/chronological-list-of-major-english.html

TORAH (PENTATEUCH) https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2024/10/torah-pentateuch.html?m=1

TANAKH https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2024/10/tanakh.html?m=1