New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
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The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT) is a modern-language translation of the Bible published by the Jehovah's Witnesses using the not-for-profit corporations Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. and the International Bible Students Association of Brooklyn, New York, published in 1961. It is not the first Bible to be published by the group, but is their first original translation of ancient Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic Biblical texts. As of 2008, this Bible translation was available in whole or part in 72 languages with 143 million copies in several editions having been printed.Awake!, November, 2007 p. 30 It is also available in electronic format on the Watchtower Society official web site
