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This is still a very early look into the unfinished text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.

Goals and intended audience

The OET has the following goals:

The primary goal of the Open English Translation is to make the Bible more accessible to this current generation with the best of a free-and-open, easy-to-understand Readers’ Version alongside a faithful Literal Version so that readers themselves can checkout what was said and what is interpreted by the translators.
Part of the motivation comes from our work on the street and door-to-door where we worked hard to explain the Good Message about Yeshua to people without any church background. The Readers’ Version strives to replace jargon and terminology that’s only heard at church with words and phrases that should be understood by modern English speakers.
A further goal is to expose more people to some of the background of where our Bibles come from and how translators make decisions, i.e., to teach a little more about original manuscripts and to challenge a little more about English translation traditions (some going back to the 1500’s) that can possibly be improved.
Finally, we also want a translation that can be read by Christians with many years of Bible reading experience, but who might benefit by reading the accounts in slightly different words that make it fresh and interesting, and hopefully it will provoke deeper thought into what the original speakers or writers likely meant.

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