Berean Standard Bible
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| Abbreviation | BSB |
|---|---|
| Year | 2016 (printed 2016, 2020, 2022 and 2025) |
| Translated by | Berean Bible Translation Committee, in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, unfoldingWord, Bible Aquifer and OpenBible.com. Published by Bible Hub, Pittsburgh, PA. |
| Old Testament based on | Hebrew Masoretic Text (Westminster Leningrad Codex). Footnotes also cite Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Septuagint and the Samaritan Pentateuch. |
| New Testament based on | Greek: the Berean Greek New Testament, which uses the Nestle 1904 text as its base and compares NA28, SBLGNT, Westcott–Hort, the Byzantine Textform and the Textus Receptus. Significant differences are footnoted. |
| Approach | Modern English; Berean places it near the middle of the range between word-for-word and thought-for-thought. |
| Suits | Suits everyday reading and study for readers who want current English. |
| God’s name in the Old Testament | LORD |
| Canon | The source edition has the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. The site shows these 66 books. |
| In this edition | section headings (3,096), parallel-passage references under headings (1,325), footnotes (4,854): other possible renderings, literal wording, manuscript differences, words of Jesus marked, poetry set in lines |
| Licence | Public domain. Berean: the text is "officially dedicated to the public domain as of April 30, 2023". All uses are permitted. Berean asks that texts which differ from the official text do not use the Berean name. |
| Source | Berean Standard Bible, USFM download (bsb_usfm.zip, listed as "updated to 3rd Printing"), October 2026 https://berean.bible/downloads.htm |
Notes
- Public-domain dedication and naming request: berean.bible
- Printing years, publisher and partners: front matter of bereanbible.com
- Greek base text (Nestle 1904) and variant editions: greekbible.org ; the BSB translation tables name the base as "WLC / Nestle Base" (bereanbible.com)
- Source abbreviations used in the footnotes: bereanbibles.com
- "Near the middle of the range": bereanbibles.com
- God's name in the Old Testament is printed LORD, and GOD where it follows Lord ("Lord GOD").
- Verses that many manuscripts lack (for example Matthew 17:21, Acts 8:37) are not in the main text; footnotes give the wording.