Bible translation

My husband Will was working with a local translation team. One day, we were reading Mark chapter 6. It says that Jesus sent out his disciples, saying, “Take nothing for your journey except a staff.” One of the translators asked me, “How old were the disciples?”

An international team of 12 organizations including Wycliffe Canada and its partner OneBook are providing linguists, consultants, exegetical advisers and software specialists to develop a new software tool: The Bible Translator’s Assistant (TBTA). The software has potential to speed access…

Forty-six countries have five or more languages still needing Bible translation to begin, totalling 1,142 languages. YWAM has people in every one of those countries — including mother-tongue speakers for about 200 of the languages.

In awe. That’s how I often feel when our team is working on the translation of God’s Word into the Kisun* language, in the Caucasus region.

A translation team in Tanzania was working on translating “Garden of Eden,” but the Swahili word the translators had considered just wasn’t adequate.

A 2019 pilot project in the Philippines resulted in digital books for the blind and visually impaired.

“Russia is big, and our office is not,” says Wycliffe Russia’s Vlada Dibirova. “We send churches information, news and videos. And also, we constantly contact pastors . . . to pray for them and the church’s needs.”

Five real-life reasons why human translators, not computer programs, are needed for clear, accurate and natural Bible translations.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bible translators in Cameroon are creating and distributing public health information about the disease, which one language community calls “pneumonia with thorns.” The Cameroon Association for Bible Translation and Literacy (CABTAL), a Wycliffe partner organization,…

Bible translation teams use local speakers to check their work—some of whom have never attended church—and the errors they find can be funny.