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| Full name | Revised English Bible |
| Abbreviation | REB |
| Complete Bible published | 1989 |
| Derived from | New English Bible |
| Textual basis | NT: Medium correspondence to Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece 27th edition, with occasional parallels to Codex Bezae. OT: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (1967/77) with Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint influence. Apocrypha: Septuagint with Vulgate influence. |
| Translation type | Dynamic equivalence |
| Reading level | High school |
| Copyright | Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press 1989 |
| Religious affiliation | Ecumenical |
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was a vast waste, darkness covered the deep, and the spirit of God hovered over the surface of the water. God said, 'Let there be light', and there was light.
God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that everyone who has faith in him may not perish but have eternal life. | |
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 slightly emended King James Bible.[1]
- ^ Revised English Bible. The Holy Bible According to the Authorised Version, compared with the Hebrew and Greek Texts and Carefully Revised. London: Eyre & Spottiswood. 1877.