New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

New World Translation
Full name	New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
Abbreviation	NWT
Language	279 languages[1][2][3]
NT published	1950
Complete Bible published	1961
Authorship	New World Bible Translation Committee
Textual basis	OT: Biblia Hebraica NT: Westcott & Hort
Translation type	Formal Equivalence and Dynamic Equivalence[4][5][6]
Revision	1984, 2013
Copies printed	More than 240 million[7][8]
Religious affiliation	Jehovah's Witnesses
Webpage	www.jw.org/en/library/bible/
Genesis 1:1–3 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and desolate, and there was darkness upon the surface of the watery deep, and God's active force was moving about over the surface of the waters. And God said: "Let there be light." Then there was light. John 3:16 For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.

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The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT) is a translation of the Bible published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society; it is used and distributed by Jehovah's Witnesses.^[9][10] The New Testament portion was released first, in 1950, as The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures,^[11][12] with the complete New World Translation of the Bible released in 1961.^[13][14]

It is not the first Bible to be published by the Watch Tower Society, but it is its first original translation of ancient Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek, and Old Aramaic biblical texts.^[15] Although commentators have said a scholarly effort went into the translation, critics have described it as "biased".^[16]