God Speaks My Language!
Today and yesterday are auspicious days in the NZ Church Calendar: Bible Sabbath/Sunday where churches around NZ recognize a particular aspect of Bible Society’s work. This year it is translation. For approximately 350 million people worldwide, there is no Bible or even a single book of the Bible in their language - the Bible is a book that only comes in someone else’s language.
Some of the facts around translation:
There are 6,909 languages spoken in the world. There are 2,479 of these languages with all or part of the Bible - for many, that means just a book of the Bible or maybe the four Gospels. There are 451 languages that have a full Bible - 13 more than last year. There are 1,185 languages that have a full New Testament. There were 71 new Bible translation projects begun this year. Most of the translation work is done by native speakers of the language they are translating into. All Bible translations under the aegis of Bible Society use the original Greek and Hebrew as the base for all translations.
It takes a minimum of 12 years to complete a translation of the full Bible. Bible Societies around the world are currently involved in 650 Bible translation projects.
For a free resource kit click here.
And check out this inspiring video about Bible Translation:
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Thank you for this info. I have been looking forward to get information on Bible translations - Which Languages the bible have been translated into and ones not. Thank you…..For the ‘untranslated ones’….Its also a big burden for me..but good to know there others/institutions working on this.
Stay Blessed.
Jack.