New World Translation Of The Holy Scriptures/Archive 1
The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT) is a translation of the Bible published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in 1961; it is used and distributed by Jehovah's Witnesses. Though it is not the first Bible to be published by the group, it is their first original translation of ancient Classical Hebrew, Koine Greek, and Old Aramaic biblical texts. As of March 2013, the Watch Tower Society has published 181 million copies of the New World Translation in 117 language editions.
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