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The Legacy Standard Bible Translation on BLB
Our team is immensely excited to announce that we now have the Legacy Standard Bible (LSB) available on our site and mobile apps. We are so blessed by our partnerships with Three Sixteen Publishing and The Lockman Foundation, who gave us permission to provide our users with this resource for free.
For those who may not know, the LSB is a recent translation that was completed by a selection of professors from The Master's University and Seminary, overseen by Pastor John MacArthur. This version focuses on the precise, literal translation of the original biblical texts. This is achieved through the consistent translation of individual words, accounting for the various nuances and differences they may have.
Here is an excerpt from the LSB's foreword that explains the team's principles of translation:
The Legacy Standard Bible has worked to uphold the style and translational choices of the NASB as much as possible. Even more, it has endeavored to follow through on the NASB's stated intent to be true to the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. While the interpreter, teacher, and pastor have the goal of understanding what the text means, the translator is to provide them with what the text says. Consistently, the goal of this translation is to be a window into the original text. Within that goal, this revision has focused upon accuracy and consistency. It has checked that words and grammar have been carried over properly. It also established rules for the consistent translation of terms within their various nuances. This allows the reader to more easily reconstruct what the original texts said. It also helps the reader more easily trace the flow of argument within a text, identify when the same word is used in another passage, and make connections between texts.
This Bible version is a true labor of love on the part of the translators. Their desire to bring as literal a translation as possible from the original texts shows an intense reverence for God's Word and a passionate desire that it be rightly divided. If you want to learn more about the origins of the LSB, you can visit their official website. Or, if you would like to hear directly from the translators themselves, you can watch their round table discussion on the official LSB YouTube channel.
New! Inline Interlinear Language Tool and More
We have been dedicated to improving and expanding our offering of biblical language resources, and are excited to announce the following additions.
New Inline Interlinear
An interlinear is a language tool that connects the English-translated word(s) to the word(s) in the original texts. Traditionally, our users have been able to access a vertical interlinear for each verse from our Bible page, one verse at a time. While this has been an immense blessing and one of our most valued tools, we understand that it is not the most conducive to reading and studying. That is where the inline interlinear comes in.
Now, you can examine the original languages in a comfortable, horizontal format; Greek from left to right and Hebrew from right to left. This can be viewed one verse at a time from the Bible page or expanded to view an entire chapter at once. Moreover, the parts of speech are color-coded to make them easily identifiable. For example, when you are reading
If you want to learn more about this tool and some of the design challenges and history behind it, you can watch our announcement video
New Biblical Language Resources Page
In the more than twenty-five years that our ministry has been on the web, our Greek and Hebrew resources have consistently been the most popular aspect of our site. Traditionally, getting to these tools required you to navigate to several different locations on the site. Now, we have placed them all under a single section for quick and easy access. If you navigate to or click on the "Study" button on the top toolbar, you will find a new section below "Bible Reference" titled "Biblical Language Resources."
Within this page, we have included links to landing pages for our inline interlinear, lexicon resources, Greek and Hebrew grammars, concordances and Greek inflection tool. Not only that, but we have also updated our grammars so that they are available in both HTML and PDF format. We saw this update as necessary to our users, allowing for a quicker and more streamlined experience accessing this fantastic resource.
Meet the People Behind BLB
In March 1996, Blue Letter Bible went live on the Internet for the first time. Since then, we have continued to grow rapidly and farther than we ever thought possible. God has not only blessed the ministry with all of our fantastic users, partners, and donors, but several dedicated staff members as well. From March of last year to March of this year, the ministry celebrated its 25th anniversary with a series of videos introducing our users to various members of our staff and board. They talk about their responsibilities at BLB, share the personal experiences they have had with BLB, and wholeheartedly express their thanks to all our partners.
If you have yet to watch our video series, we recommend starting with our two long-time board members and ministry partners, Don Perkins and Miles DeBenedictis. If you would like to look back at BLB's journey for the last two-and-a-half decades, you can also read our History of BLB page.
New Commentaries from Alexander MacLaren
Alexander MacLaren has been a revered preacher, both in his time and ours. That is why we are excited to bring you three of his many works on Scripture: Expositions of Holy Scripture, The Life of David Reflected in the Psalms, and his contributions to The Expositor's Bible.
Expositions of Holy Scripture
The first and largest of these works is a collection of MacLaren's sequential teaching through the books of Scripture. George Eayrs, who created a detailed index for the physical volume set of this work, marveled at the unique nature of MacLaren's writings: "A notable feature of Dr. MacLaren's expository art was the use of supplementary, complementary, or contrasting passages of Scripture as sidelights or reflections upon that which he was expounding."
The Life of David Reflected in the Psalms
This work focuses on the evolution of David's psalms throughout his different stages of life. MacLaren breaks his work into four stages of David's life: (1) his early days, (2) his exile during Saul's reign, (3) his reign as king, and (4) his sin and the consequences born from that. With this work, you will find yourself diving deep into the character and life of King David.
Contributions to The Expositor's Bible
The Expositor's Bible is a work compiled and edited by Sir William Robertson Nicholl. His goal was to display a unification among full-time preachers on the essentials of the Christian faith. MacLaren, a dear friend of Nicholl, contributed three volumes on Psalms and one on Colossians and Philemon. These are available along with MacLaren's other works on his author page.
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