Berean Study Bible

1 Holy Bible The Reader s Bible Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Ruth 1 Samuel 2 Samuel 1 Kings 2 Kings 1 Chronicles 2 Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Esther Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Songs Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi Matthew Mark Luke John Acts Romans 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians 1 Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians 1 Timothy 2 Timothy Titus Philemon Hebrews James 1 Peter 2 Peter 1 John 2 John 3 John Jude Revelation The Holy Bible , Berean Reader s Bible , BRB Copyright 2020 by Bible Hub. All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Pittsburgh, PA 15045 USA The BRB text may be quoted in any form (written, visual, audio, or electronic) up to two thousand (2,000) verses without written permission of the publisher. Also without requirement of written permission, you are free to make up to 200 copies of any portion of this text, or the full text itself, for personal use or free distribution in a church, ministry, or missions setting.

2 Notice of copyright must appear on the title page as follows: The Holy Bible , Berean Reader s Bible , BRB Copyright 2020 by Bible Hub. All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Free licensing of the full text is available for many additional uses. This permission may be quickly obtained through the licensing form at these Berean Bible websites: .. Berean Bible Homepage .. Berean Interlinear Bible (BIB) .. Berean Literal Bible (BLB) .. Berean Study Bible (BSB) Produced in USA Preface Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true. Acts 17:11 The Berean Study Bible (BSB) is a completely new translation of the Holy Bible , effective for public reading, Study , memorization, and evangelism. Based on the best available manuscripts and sources, each word is connected back to the Greek or Hebrew text to produce a transparent text that can be studied for its root meanings.

3 The BSB represents a single tier of the Berean Bible . This printing contains the full BSB text, footnotes, section headings, and cross references. Additional components, including translation tables, lexicons, outlines, and summaries, are free online and in a variety of apps and software. The Berean Bible Translation Committee has employed an open process where translation tables are freely available and all comments are welcomed and considered. These sources may also be downloaded and shared freely. Please see the Berean Bible website for a full description of the translation committee and process. We pray that this text will enable readers to connect with God s Word to Study it, memorize it, share it, and proclaim it. We are inspired by the model of the early Christian church: After this letter has been read among you, make sure that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you in turn read the letter from laodicea .

4 Colossians 4:16 The Scriptures belonged to the churches and were meant to be examined, copied, and distributed. The committee hopes to follow this example by sharing all the resources with which we have been entrusted. Just as Paul encouraged the churches to pass on his letters, the Berean Bible is intended to be offered freely in websites, apps, software, and various text and audio formats. Publication and Sharing We desire to share a Bible text that is as free as possible from licensing and publishing constraints. While a copyright is necessary to ensure that there are not multiple forms of the same version, the project is constructed to enable royalty-free publishing of digital resources and generous licensing for use in print. The Berean Bible , with free licensing for use of the full text in software, apps, and websites, is available through any of the following Berean Bible websites.

5 Berean Bible Homepage .. Berean Interlinear Bible (BIB) .. Berean Literal Bible (BLB) .. Berean Study Bible (BSB) .. Reader s Bible .. Emphasized Bible .. Annotated Bible .. Audio Bible Tiered Translation Structure The Berean Study Bible is the modern English translation tier of the Berean Bible . The four tiers are as follows: 1. An interlinear Bible to directly follow the Greek and Hebrew texts. 2. A literal translation to take the reader to the core of the Greek and Hebrew meanings. 3. A modern English translation, effective for public reading, memorization, and evangelism. 4. An emphasized translation to bring out the full meaning and intensity of the original texts. All sources are linked through to the original source, making the multi-tiered translation process transparent. The translation databases and lexical information are freely available at the Berean Bible websites. Thus the translation process can be followed even by those without extensive training in Greek and Hebrew.

6 The translation tiers also provide Study support by enhancing the expression of meaning on multiple levels. Since languages often do not translate in a one-to-one fashion, the multiple tiers facilitate a fuller translation that is able to contain both word for word and thought for thought renderings. Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic Sources and Abbreviations We are blessed to live in an era where God s Word can be viewed through a vast collection of ancient sources. We believe that these original language sources serve to strengthen each other by their amazing consistency across thousands of years and thousands of miles. The Scriptures in their original form are God s inerrant word to us and to all generations. Scholars have sought to reconstruct these Scriptures by collating the manuscripts and sources deemed to be closest to the originals. For simplicity, we have footnoted significant variants between major collections of source texts.

7 Please see the Berean Bible website for full documentation of these sources. The following abbreviations are used in the footnotes to document differences among original language sources: NA Nestle Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece SBL Society of Biblical Literature, Greek New Testament ECM Editio Critica Maior, Novum Testamentum Graecum NE Eberhard Nestle Novum Testamentum Graece WH Westcott and Hort, New Testament in the Original Greek BYZ The New Testament in the Original Greek: Byzantine Textform GOC Greek Orthodox Church, New Testament TR Scrivener s Textus Receptus Stephanus Textus Receptus DSS Dead Sea Scrolls MT Hebrew Masoretic Text: Westminster Leningrad Codex Hebrew Masoretic Text: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia LXX Greek OT Septuagint: Rahlfs-Hanhart Septuaginta Greek OT Septuagint: Swete's Septuagint SP Samaritan Pentateuch Genesis 1 BRB [Online] The Creation In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

8 Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening, and there was morning the first day. And God said, Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters. So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so. God called the expanse sky. And there was evening, and there was morning the second day. And God said, Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear. And it was so. God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of waters He called seas. And God saw that it was good.

9 Then God said, Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind. And it was so. The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning the third day. And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years. And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth. And it was so. God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well. God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth, to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness.

10 And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning the fourth day. And God said, Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky. So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good. Then God blessed them and said, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth. And there was evening, and there was morning the fifth day. And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds. And it was so. God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind.