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Bible/Featured chapter/Genesis 2. On the seventh day, the Sabbath, God rests, and sanctifies the day. God forms Adam out of earth ("adamah"), and sets him in the Garden of Eden, to watch over it. Adam is allowed to eat of all the fruit within it, except that of the " Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil ." God then brings all the animals to ...
The New Revised Standard Version ( NRSV) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Published in 1989 by the National Council of Churches, [8] the NRSV was created by an ecumenical committee of scholars "comprising about thirty members". [9] The NRSV relies on recently published critical editions of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and ...
The Revised Standard Version ( RSV) is an English translation of the Bible published in 1952 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. [1] This translation itself is a revision of the American Standard Version (ASV) of 1901, [2] and was intended to be a readable and literally accurate ...
The Oxford Annotated Bible ( OAB ), also published as the New Oxford Annotated Bible ( NOAB ), is a Study Bible published by the Oxford University Press. The notes and the study material feature in-depth academic research from nondenominational perspectives, specifically secular perspectives for "Bible-as-literature" with a focus on the most ...
t. e. Modern English Bible translations consists of English Bible translations developed and published throughout the late modern period ( c. 1800–1945) to the present ( c. 1945– ). A multitude of recent attempts have been made to translate the Bible into English. Most modern translations published since c. 1900 are based on recently ...
The New American Bible ( NAB) is an English translation of the Bible first published in 1970. The 1986 Revised NAB is the basis of the revised Lectionary. In the Catholic Church in the United States, it is the only translation approved for use during Mass. The 1970 NAB is also approved for use in the Episcopal Church in the United States. [1] [2]
Modern Christian (1800– ) Modern Jewish (1853– ) Bible portal. v. t. e. The New American Standard Bible ( NASB, also simply NAS for "New American Standard") is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Published by the Lockman Foundation, the complete NASB was released in 1971. New revisions were published in 1995 and 2020.
The Revised English Bible ( REB) is a 1989 English-language translation of the Bible that updates the New English Bible (NEB) of 1970. As with its predecessor, it is published by the publishing houses of both the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It is not to be confused with the Revised English Bible of 1877, which was an annotated and ...