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Reporting on Bible translation, archaeology and how people read Scripture, commentary that says it is commentary, and updates from this project. Every claim links to its source.
In a small newsroom, three editors lean over page proofs on a desk, one marking a page with a red pen.Excavators found the burnt roof of a courtyard that came down when Babylon destroyed Jerusalem, with so many tree rings that it may be dated to within a decade.
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Read the articleForty songs in Filipino arrived on Apple Music and YouTube Music on 23 September 2026, and the first two books of the Bible are now sung in all four of this site’s languages.
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The American Bible Society’s new chapter on forgiveness finds that Americans struggle most with forgiving others. Read beside a parable, the numbers say more than they seem to.
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English pages read the King James Version, Spanish the Reina Valera 1909, Portuguese the Bíblia Portuguesa Mundial and Filipino Ang Dating Biblia 1905, each laid out on the same 66 books, 1,189 chapters and 31,102 verses.
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The ProgressBible count for 1 September 2026, published by Wycliffe Bible Translators UK, finds translation under way in 4,414 languages and a Bible or New Testament launched almost every three days.
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Every person, place and object sheet and every chapter’s deep dive now reads in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Filipino: 310 sheets, 1,189 chapters, 5,322 sections.
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