Compare Bible translations
Leer en españolOne row per translation. For what each label means, see "Which Bible should I read?" below the list of translations.
| Translation | Language | Tradition | Old Testament source | New Testament source | Canon | Style | Year | Licence | Books in this edition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brenton's English Septuagint Brenton | English | Individual translator | Septuagint (Greek) | — | Septuagint Old Testament (no New Testament) | Formal (word for word) | 1844 | Public domain | 53 |
| Updated Brenton English Septuagint LXXUP | English | Individual translator | Septuagint (Greek) | — | Septuagint Old Testament (no New Testament) | Formal (word for word) | 2020 | Public domain | 53 |
| World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon) WEB | English | Protestant | Masoretic Hebrew | Majority (Byzantine) text | All books (ecumenical) | Formal (word for word) | 2020 | Public domain | 81 |
| World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon) WEBBE | English | Protestant | Masoretic Hebrew | Majority (Byzantine) text | All books (ecumenical) | Formal (word for word) | 2020 | Public domain | 81 |
| King James Version (with Apocrypha) KJV | English | Protestant | Masoretic Hebrew | Textus Receptus | Protestant, with the Apocrypha | Formal (word for word) | 1611 | Public domain | 80 |
| Revised Version with Apocrypha RV | English | Protestant | Masoretic Hebrew | Critical text | Protestant, with the Apocrypha | Formal (word for word) | 1895 | Public domain | 80 |
| Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899 DRB | English | Catholic | Latin Vulgate | Latin Vulgate | Catholic (73 books) | Formal (word for word) | 1899 | Public domain | 73 |
| Catholic Public Domain Version CPDV | English | Catholic | Latin Vulgate | Latin Vulgate | Catholic (73 books) | Formal (word for word) | 2009 | Public domain | 73 |
| Majority Standard Bible MSB | English | Protestant | Masoretic Hebrew | Majority (Byzantine) text | Protestant (66 books) | Formal (word for word) | 2022 | Public domain | 66 |
| Berean Standard Bible BSB | English | Protestant | Masoretic Hebrew | Critical text | Protestant (66 books) | Formal (word for word) | 2022 | Public domain | 66 |
| American Standard Version (1901) ASV | English | Protestant | Masoretic Hebrew | Critical text | Protestant (66 books) | Formal (word for word) | 1901 | Public domain | 66 |
| Literal Standard Version LSV | English | Protestant | Masoretic Hebrew | Majority (Byzantine) text | Protestant (66 books) | Very literal | 2020 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 66 |
| Darby Translation Darby | English | Protestant | Masoretic Hebrew | Critical text | Protestant (66 books) | Very literal | 1890 | Public domain | 66 |
| Young's Literal Translation YLT | English | Individual translator | Masoretic Hebrew | Textus Receptus | Protestant (66 books) | Very literal | 1898 | Public domain | 66 |
| Noah Webster's Bible (1833) Webster | English | Protestant | Masoretic Hebrew | Textus Receptus | Protestant (66 books) | Formal (word for word) | 1833 | Public domain | 66 |
| Geneva Bible (1599) GNV | English | Protestant | Masoretic Hebrew | Textus Receptus | Protestant (66 books) | Formal (word for word) | 1599 | Public domain | 66 |
| Unlocked Literal Bible ULB | English | Protestant | Masoretic Hebrew | Critical text (not verified) | Protestant (66 books) | Formal (word for word) | 2017 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 66 |
| Free Bible Version FBV | English | Individual translator | Masoretic Hebrew | Critical text | Protestant (66 books) | Dynamic (thought for thought) | 2018 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 66 |
| Bible in Basic English BBE | English | Scholarly edition | Masoretic Hebrew (not verified) | Critical text (not verified) | Protestant (66 books) | Simplified language | 1965 | Public domain | 66 |
| JPS Tanakh (1917) JPS | English | Jewish | Masoretic Hebrew | — | Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) | Formal (word for word) | 1917 | Public domain | 39 |
| Tyndale New Testament (1534) Tyndale | English | Protestant | — | Textus Receptus | New Testament only | Formal (word for word) | 1534 | Public domain | 27 |
| Reina-Valera 1909 RV1909 | Spanish | Protestant | Masoretic Hebrew | Textus Receptus | Protestant (66 books) | Formal (word for word) | 1909 | Public domain | 66 |
| Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008) ONBV | Spanish | Protestant | Masoretic Hebrew (not verified) | Critical text (not verified) | Protestant (66 books) | Dynamic (thought for thought) | 2008 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 66 |
| God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible) PDT | Spanish | Protestant | Masoretic Hebrew | Critical text | Protestant (66 books) | Formal (word for word) | 2020 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 66 |
| Free Bible Version (Spanish) VBL | Spanish | Individual translator | Masoretic Hebrew (not verified) | Critical text | Protestant (66 books) | Dynamic (thought for thought) | 2020 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 66 |
| Bible in Simple Spanish (2026) BES | Spanish | Individual translator | Masoretic Hebrew (not verified) | Critical text (not verified) | Protestant (66 books) | Simplified language | 2026 | Public domain | 66 |
| Scío de San Miguel New Testament (1797) Scío | Spanish | Catholic | — | Latin Vulgate | New Testament only | Formal (word for word) | 1797 | Public domain | 27 |
| Brenton's Greek Septuagint LXX | Greek | Scholarly edition | Septuagint (Greek) | — | Septuagint Old Testament (no New Testament) | Original language | 1851 | Public domain | 53 |
| Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition) PT1904 | Greek | Orthodox | — | Byzantine text | New Testament only | Original language | 1904 | Public domain | 27 |
| Patriarchal Text (Antoniades 1904/1912) PT | Greek | Orthodox | — | Byzantine text | New Testament only | Original language | 1912 | Public domain | 27 |
| Byzantine Textform (Robinson-Pierpont 2018) RP2018 | Greek | Scholarly edition | — | Byzantine text | New Testament only | Original language | 2018 | Public domain | 27 |
| Textus Receptus (Boyd collation) TR | Greek | Individual translator | — | Textus Receptus | New Testament only | Original language | 2022 | Public domain | 27 |
| Nestle Greek New Testament (1904) Nestle 1904 | Greek | Scholarly edition | — | Critical text | New Testament only | Original language | 1904 | Public domain | 27 |
| SBL Greek New Testament SBLGNT | Greek | Scholarly edition | — | Critical text | New Testament only | Original language | 2010 | CC BY 4.0 | 27 |
| Westminster Leningrad Codex WLC | Hebrew | Scholarly edition | Masoretic Hebrew | — | Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) | Original language | 1008 | Public domain | 39 |
| Clementine Vulgate VUL | Latin | Catholic | Latin Vulgate | Latin Vulgate | Catholic (73 books) | Original language | 1598 | Public domain | 73 |
| Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible) Slavonic | Church Slavonic | Orthodox | Septuagint (Greek) | Byzantine text | Orthodox | Formal (word for word) | 1751 | GNU GPL v3 (digital edition; the text is public domain) | 77 |
| Russian Synodal Bible (1876) Synodal | Russian | Orthodox | Masoretic Hebrew (not verified) | Textus Receptus | Orthodox | Formal (word for word) | 1876 | Public domain | 78 |
| Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850) Vamvas | Greek (modern) | Individual translator | Masoretic Hebrew | Textus Receptus (not verified) | Protestant (66 books) | Formal (word for word) | 1850 | Public domain | 66 |
| Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic) DK | Serbian | Individual translator | Masoretic Hebrew (not verified) | Textus Receptus | Protestant (66 books) | Formal (word for word) | 1868 | Public domain | 66 |
| Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script) DK latinica | Serbian | Individual translator | Masoretic Hebrew (not verified) | Textus Receptus | Protestant (66 books) | Formal (word for word) | 1868 | Public domain | 66 |
| Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865) SVD | Arabic | Protestant | Masoretic Hebrew | Textus Receptus | Protestant (66 books) | Formal (word for word) | 1865 | Public domain | 66 |