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The EasyEnglish Bible (EASY) is a translation of the Bible into very simple English. It is based on a vocabulary of 1200 well-known English words. The translation is designed for people who are learning English or who speak English as a foreign language.

The complete Bible was published on the EasyEnglish Bible website in 2015 along with a series of Commentaries and Bible Studies, which are also written in simple English. It was revised in 2018.

It is also available on the YouVersion Bible app.

The Gospels have been printed by the British and Foreign Bible Society.

The New Testament is available on the STEP Bible online platform by Tyndale House (Cambridge).

There are several free apps containing portions of the EasyEnglish Bible on the Google Play Store. The EasyEnglish New Testament app was the runner up for the 2018 “App of the Year” award in the Premier Digital Awards.

Translation Principles
It is a “meaning-for-meaning” translation, not “word-for-word”. It translates the meaning of phrases or whole sentences and changes the order of words if that makes the meaning clearer in English.This approach to translation is sometimes referred to as Dynamic Equivalence.

Spelling and Grammar
The translation uses British spelling, grammar and punctuation, which is the variant of English that is most often used in Commonwealth countries - see English in the Commonwealth of Nations.

It uses Oxford Spelling, which is the preferred spelling in the Oxford English Dictionary. So, for example, it uses a “z” rather than an “s” for words such as “baptize”. This is consistent with the spelling used by the World Health Organization and other United Nations Agencies.

The translation uses short sentences, short paragraphs, and simple grammar. It avoids passive verbs, idioms, split infinitives, and rhetorical questions.

Translation Team
The EasyEnglish Bible was translated by MissionAssist, which is a Christian charity based in the United Kingdom. MissionAssist is part of the Wycliffe Global Alliance and a member of Global Connections.

Base Text
Where different translations of the Bible have a different interpretation of the Bible text, the EasyEnglish Bible follows the Hebrew or Greek text, using the texts published and updated by United Bible Societies:


 * Old Testament: Biblia Hebraica Masoretic Text


 * New Testament: The Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece