The Gideons International

The Gideons International is an organization that distributes Bibles to hotels, motels, students, first responders, prisoners, the military, etc. Generally the Gideons have used the King James Version in their work. At times the Gideons have also used other versions as well. These versions are listed here.

English Language Editions

Authorized (King James) Version

Complete Bible - 1978

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Title: Holy Bible Containing the Old And New Testaments Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations diligently compared Commonly Known as the Authorized (King James) Version The Gideons International
Date: 1978
Publisher: National Publishing Company
Contents: Complete Bible
Images: Cover, Title page
Location: Cherry Point Baptist Church, Havelock, North Carolina, USA
Comments: The logo on the bottom left hand corner of the title page says "Boltext trademark".

New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs

Public school edition - 1972
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Title: The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with Psalms and Proverbs Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations diligently compared Commonly Known as the Authorized (King James) Version The Gideons International 1972 Edition
Date: 1972
Publisher: National Publishing Company: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Contents: New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs
Images: Cover, Title page, Psalms title page, Proverbs title page
Location: Personal library, Havelock, North Carolina, USA (formerly)
Comments: Besides the 1972 date on the title page, the back of the page has a notice that reads: Copyright 1968 by National Publishing Company Philadelphia, Pa. This edition is intended to be given away to students inside a public school; it contains no helps.

Medical edition - 2013
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Title: The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with Psalms and Proverbs Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations diligently compared Commonly Known as the Authorized (King James) Version The Gideons International P.O. Box 140800 Nashville, TN 37214-0800 www.gideons.org
Date: 2013
Publisher: The Gideons International: Nashville, TN
Contents: New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs
Images: Cover, Title page
Location: Cherry Point Baptist Church, Havelock, North Carolina, USA
Comments: The white color is for medical personnel; they are distributed by the Gideon Auxiliary (i.e., the wives of Gideons).

New Testament and Psalms - 2013

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Title: The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with Psalms Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations diligently compared Commonly Known as the Authorized (King James) Version The Gideons International P.O. Box 140800 Nashville, TN 37214-0800 www.gideons.org
Date: 2013
Publisher: The Gideons International: Nashville, TN
Contents: New Testament and Psalms
Images: Cover, Title page
Location: Personal library, Havelock, North Carolina, USA
Comments: This edition is intended for nightstands in hospital rooms; the cover says "Thinking of you The Gideons". The inside front page states: "This Testament is placed in memory or honor of a friend or loved one through the GideonCard Bible Program."

American Standard Version

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Title: The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments Translated Out of the Original Tongues Being the Version Set Forth A.D. 1611 Compared With the Most Ancient Authorities and Revised A.D. 1881-1885 Newly Edited by the American Revision Committee A.D. 1901 Standard Edition
Date: Copyright 1901
Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons: New York
Contents: Protestant Bible
Images: Cover, Title page
Comments: The cover reads: Placed in this hotel by the Gideons The Property of the Gideons

Revised Berkeley Version

Complete Bible - 1984

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Title: The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments The Revised Berkeley Version A Completely New Translation From the Original Languages The Gideons International 1984 Edition
Date: 1984
Publisher: National Bible Press
Contents: Complete Bible
References: Bradford Taliaferro's The Bible Hunter blog, November 25, 2013.
Images: Cover, Title page
Location: Personal library, Havelock, North Carolina, USA
Comments: Fundamentalist author David Cloud writes in his 2002 article The Gideons and Modern Bible Versions that the Gideons used this version from 1974 to 1983. However this edition was printed in 1984.

New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs - 1974

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Title: The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with Psalms and Proverbs The Revised Berkeley Version Translated afresh From the Originial Languages and diligently compared with previous translations The Gideons International 1974 Edition
Date: 1974
Publisher: National Bible Press
Contents: New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs
References: Bradford Taliaferro's The Bible Hunter blog, November 25, 2013.
Images: Cover, Title page
Comments: Fundamentalist author David Cloud writes in his 2002 article The Gideons and Modern Bible Versions that the Gideons used this version from 1974 to 1983. The green color is for college students.

New International Edition

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Title: The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with Psalms and Proverbs New International Edition The Gideons International 1983 Edition
Date: 1983
Publisher: New York International Bible Society
References: Bradford Taliaferro's The Bible Hunter blog,October 26, 2013.
Contents: New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs
Images: Cover, Title page
Comments: The Gideons used this version from 1983 to 1986. Cloud notes that the Gideons made textual changes that "more strongly emphasize the virgin birth, deity of Christ, and other cardinal doctrines." The green color is for college students.

New International Version (British ed.)

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Title: The New Testament and Psalms ◆ New International Version
Date: This edition 2012 - 05/ 12. © 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society
Publisher: Lutterworth/ Leic., England (U.K.): The Gideons International / In the British Isles.
Printer: Edinburgh, Scotland (U.K.): Charles Letts & Co.
Contents: The New Testament and Psalms. Appendixes: Where to Find Help (7 pp); What the Bible says about (2 pp); About the Bible (8 pp); The best known verse; The Commandments; Praying; When feeling the need to pray; Thirty days selected readings; Daily readings; Suggested readings from the Psalms; About the Gideons; The Gideon Story.
References: Bradford Taliaferro's The Bible Hunter blog, October 26, 2013.
Images: Cover, Title page, Title & Publication Information
Location: Collection Bibelarchiv–Birnbaum. Karlsruhe/ Baden, Germany
Comments:FlexCover 12mo; sewn binding. 766 pp. British spelling. »N. I. V. text used by agreement with Hodder and Stoughton.«
Scripture text in single column and bold print, which is way better to read than the eye- inflaming print in the NIE (above); all poetic parts, Psalms etc. in ciolometric print; no extras except paragraph headings. Appendixes start with page 2; Scripture text with p. 52.
In the "Acknowledgements" we read: " The followin changes [are] incorporated in this special edition:
"1. The omission of the footnotes in both the Old and New Testaments (which formed an integral part of the original translation).

2. The incorporation into the text in the following instances of certain alternative readings which formed part of the footnotes in the original translation: John 1.14, 18; John 3:16, 18; Acts 13:33; Hebrews 1:5; Hebrews 5:5 and 1 John 4:9.

3. The incorporation into the text of the New Testament of certain verses which formed part of the footnotes in the original translation. These verses have been placed in corner brackets." [Just to name a few: Mat. 6:13b and the "comma Iohanneum" 1 John 5:7, to incorporate readings that are borrowed from the Majority text.]

Birnbaum's remark: Not clear is since when Gideons in Britain had the "special NIV" printed. This 2012 edition was edited after (!) the publication of the 2011 update of the NIV. Other than in the U.S. predecessor NIE, the British Gideons have clearly pointed out, that there are a textual differences between the standard NIV and their "modification".

NIV & NIE editions

New American Standard Bible

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Title: Text Edition New American Standard Bible
Date: 2006
Publisher: The Lockman Foundation: La Habra, California
Contents: Bible
References: Taliaferro-EELBV 8100.120.
Images: Cover, Title page
Location: Personal library, Havelock, North Carolina, USA
Comments: This edition was published by the Gideons International in Canada; various helps are included.

New King James Version

Complete Bible

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Title: The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments The Gideons International
Date: © 1985, 1983 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Publisher: National Publishing Company
Contents: Bible
Images: Cover, Title page
Location: Personal library, Havelock, North Carolina, USA (formerly)
Comments: According to The Deseret News, the Gideons started using the New King James Version in 1986.

New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs

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Title: The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with Psalms and Proverbs The Gideons International
Date: © 1985, 1983 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Publisher: National Publishing Company
Contents: New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs
Images: Cover, Title page, Psalms title page, Proverbs title page
Location: Personal library, Havelock, North Carolina, USA (formerly)
Comments: The green color is for college students.

Holman Christian Standard Bible

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Title: What Is Life About? The Life Book By Carl Blunt twitter.com/carlblunt facebook.com/carlblunt
Date: 2009
Publisher: The Life Book Project
Contents: Gospel of John
Facsimile: A facsimile is at archive.org.
Location: Personal library, Havelock, North Carolina, USA (formerly)
Images: Front cover, Title page, Back cover, copyright information
Comments: The Life Book is a Gideons ministry. It is an edition of the Gospel of John designed to help teenagers share the gospel with their peers. The annotations and helps were written by Carl Blunt. An English Standard Version edition was published in 2013. More information can be found at http://thelifebook.com.

English Standard Version

Complete Bible

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Title: The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments The Gideons International
Date: 2013
Publisher: The Gideons International: Nashville, TN
Contents: Bible
References: Bradford Taliaferro's The Bible Hunter blog, November 17, 2013.
Images: Cover, Title page
Location: Personal library, Havelock, North Carolina, USA
Comments: The Gideons announced they would switch to the English Standard Version in the June 2013 issue of The Gideon. The Gideon edition contains "over 50 alternate renderings consistent with the Textus Receptus". A list of changes can be found here.

New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs

College edition -2013
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Title: The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with Psalms and Proverbs The Gideons International P.O. Box 140800 Nashville, TN 37214-0800 www.gideons.org
Date: 2013
Publisher: The Gideons International: Nashville, TN
Contents: New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs
References: Bradford Taliaferro's The Bible Hunter blog, November 17, 2013.
Images: Cover, Title page
Location: Personal library, Havelock, North Carolina, USA
Comments: The green color is for college students.

US Navy edition - 2015
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Title: The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with Psalms and Proverbs The Gideons International P.O. Box 140800 Nashville, TN 37214-0800 www.gideons.org
Date: 2015
Publisher: The Gideons International: Nashville, TN
Contents: New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs
References: Bradford Taliaferro's The Bible Hunter blog, November 17, 2013.
Images: cover, title page
Location: Personal library, Havelock, North Carolina, USA (formerly)
Comments: This edition is for the United States Navy; the copyright page has an ESV logo in addition to the Gideon one. It can be seen here. Acts 15:34 (But it seemed good to Silas to remain there) is printed in the text.

The Life Book

The Life Book is a ministry of the The Gideons International; these editions of the Gospels of John and Mark designed to help teenagers share the gospel with their peers. The annotations and helps were written by Carl Blunt.

Gospel of John - 2013
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Title: What Is Life About? The Life Book
Date: 2013
Publisher: The Gideons International The Life Book Movement
Contents: Gospel of John
References: Bradford Taliaferro's The Bible Hunter blog, November 17, 2013.
Images: Front cover, Title page, Back cover
Location: Personal library, Havelock, North Carolina, USA
Comments: An Holman Christian Standard Bible edition was published in 2009. This edition is available in Spanish; details about this edition can be found here. An edition based on the Gospel of Mark was published in 2017; more details about this edition is here. Some editions have an alternative cover; it is shown below.

From left: ❶ Front ❷ Back

Gospel of Mark - 2017
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Title: What Is Life About? The Gospel of Mark The Life Book
Date: 2017
Publisher: The Gideons International The Life Book Movement
Contents: Gospel of Mark
Facsimile: A facsimile is available from Issuu.
References: Bradford Taliaferro's The Bible Hunter blog, November 17, 2013.
Images: Front cover, Title page, Publication information, Back cover (from facsimile)
Comments: An edition of the Life Book (with the Gospel of John) was published in 2013; more information about this edition is here.

Mobile application or "app"

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Title: Gideon Bible App The Gideons International Powered by Faith Comes by Hearing and The Digital Bible Platform
Date: 2015
Publisher: Faith Comes by Hearing: Albuquerque, NM / The Gideons International: Nashville, TN
URL: http://gideons.bible.is
Contents: Complete Bible
References: Bradford Taliaferro's The Bible Hunter blog, November 17, 2013.
Images: Icon, Cover, Old Testament (Genesis 1:1-9), New Testament (Matthew 1:1-9)
Comments: This app contains the complete texts and audio recordings of the ESV (as modified by the Gideons) and the King James Version; other languages are also available within the app. Besides the Bible text and audio, various helps are also included. The Gideons have produced a small card to promote the app; it can be seen below.

➊ Front ➋ Back

Non-English Language Editions

Chinese / English Bilingual Edition

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Title: The New Testament Chinese and English (Bilingual Edition) [three lines in Chinese] The Gideons International
Date: 1980
Publisher: Printed in Taiwan
Contents: New Testament in Chinese (version not stated) and English (English Revised Version)
Language: Chinese and English
Images: Cover, Title page, Publication Information

Danish

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Title: Det Nye Testamente om vor Herre og Frelser Jesus Kristus The Gideons International
Date: 1987
Publisher: The Danish Bible Society for the Gideons International
Contents: New Testament in Danish (version not stated)
Language: Danish
Images: Cover, Title page

French

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Title: Le Nouveau Testament de notre Seigneur et Sauveur Jesus-Christ ◆ avec les Psaumes / [Version]: Segond 21
Date: © 2007 (du texte biblique Segond 21)
Publisher: Genève (Switzerland): Société Biblique (for the Scripture Text)
Nashville TN (U.S.A.): The Gideons International / L' Association Internationale des Gédéons
Printer: Imprimé aux Etats–Unis d'Amérique [=Printed in the United States of America]
Contents: New Testament & Psalms: Extraits de la Bible Segond 21. Appendixes: About the Gideons (3 pp.) Scriptures for Helps in Times of Need (2 pp). Scriptures for: Why Jesus and the Church? (2 pp)
Language: French
Images: Cover, Title page, Dedication
Location: Collection Bibelarchiv–Birnbaum. Karlsruhe/ Baden. Germany
Comments: Flexcover 12mo, thread stitiching, (6) & 632 pp. Scripture text in double column, no extras

German

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Title: Das Neue Testament unseres Herrn und Heilandes Jesus Christus. Die Psalmen
Date: 1956 until late 1962. For the New Testament Text: Revised 1956. For the Psalms: According to the 1912 Text ("neu durchgesehen"), approved by the Lutheran Protestant Church Conference.
Publisher & Printer: Stuttgart, Württ. (F. R. Germany): Privilegierte Württembergische Bibelanstalt
Distributors: Berlin- Schmargendorf & Frankfurt am Main (F. R. Germany): The Gideons International in Germany
Contents: Das Neue Testament und die Psalmen (the New Testament and the Psalms)
References:
Images: Cover, General Title, New Testament Title detail, Psalm Title page
Location: Collection Bibelarchiv–Birnbaum. Karlsruhe/ Baden, Germany
Comments: Cloth board 12mo, sewn binding; (8) & 866 pp. Bible paper; 2 coloured maps.
This is an early copy of the German Edition published when the German Gideons still were supervised through West–Berlin by their U.S.- mother. This first Gideon NT is basically a so called "Senfkorn- Testament" ("Mustard Grain" - Testament), produced for the reader, who wanted a small size NT plus Psalms for his pocket. The Gideons obtained it completely from the Stuttgart printing office of the Württembergische Bibelanstalt, who embossed the Gideons logo "Torch in Trumpet" on the cloth board. This "Mustard- Grain" Testament has all the extras of the regular edition: Single- column scripture text, cross references within text and in the margin, paragraph references and headings and two coloured maps. The Gideons could afford it only until February of 1963, it was just too expensive.
The NT- text is that of the then latest revision of 1956, the Psalm- text dates from 1912, as the OT revision of the Luther Bible was finished only in 1964.

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Title:Neues Testament und Psalmen ◆ Das Neue Testament und Psalmen. Nach der deutschen Übersetzung D. Martin Luthers
Date: Ⓒ 1967. For the New Testament: Revidierter (Revised) Text 1956. For the Psalms: (not indicated: Revidierter (Revised) Text 1964)
Publisher: Bungay/ Suffolk, England (U.K.): Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press)
Distributor: Wetzlar, Hessen (F.R. Germany): Internationaler Gideonbund in Deutschland e. V.
Printer: Not indicated; according to information by Gideons‘ made in the U.S.A.
Contents: Neues Testament (New Testament). Die Psalmen (The Psalms) - Supplements: Hilfe in der Not (Help in Times of Need); Zum Lesen empfohlene Bibelstellen (Verses suggested for Scripture-reading). Praktische Regeln (Practical rules). Wer sind die Gideons (Who are the Gideons) 4 pp
Language: German
Images: Cover, Title page
Location: Collection Bibelarchiv–Birnbaum. Karlsruhe/ Baden. Germany

Comments: Hardcover octavo, sewn binding; (10) & 368 pp. Scripture text printed verse- wise in double column, no extras.
This is the large octavo edition with revised Psalms. Though this (and the 1971 below 12mo ed.) both might have been made in the U.S., they are not identical, but from different printers.

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Title: Neues Testament und Psalmen ◆ Das Neue Testament unseres Herrn und Heilandes Jesus Christus nach der deutschen Übersetzung D. Martin Luthers. Der Psalter
Date: 1971 Auflage (Imprint). For the New Testament: Revidierter (Revised) Text 1956. For the Psalms: Revidierter (Revised) Text 1964
Publisher: [Philadelphia PA (U.S.A.)]: National Verlag Kompanie
Distributor: Wuppertal - Vohwinkel, Northrhine-Westphalia (F.R. Germany): Internationaler Gideonbund in Deutschland e. V.
Printer: Not indicated; according to information by Gideons‘ made in the U.S.A.
Contents: Das Neue Testament. Die Psalmen (New Testament. The Psalms) - Supplements: Hilfe in der Not (Help in Times of Need); Zum Lesen empfohlene Bibelstellen (Verses suggested for Scripture-reading). [Was ist] die Bibel (What is the Bible)? Wer sind die Gideons (Who are the Gideons?) 5 pp
Language: German
Images: Cover, Title page
Location: Collection Bibelarchiv–Birnbaum. Karlsruhe/ Baden. Germany
Comments: Hardcover 12mo; sewn binding, (5) & 668 pp. Scripture text printed verse- wise in double column, no extras.
This is the small edition with revised Psalms. Though this (and the 1967 above 8° ed.) both might have been made in the U.S., they are not identical, but from different printers.

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Title: Neues Testament ♦ Psalmen Sprüche
Das Neue Testament unseres Herrn und Heilandes Jesus Christus / Der Psalter / Die Sprüche Salomos nach der deutschen Übersetzung D. Martin Luthers.
(=The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ / The Psalter / The Proverbs according to the German translation of D. Martin Luther)
Abdruck der 1984 fertiggestellten überarbeiteten Fassung der Übersetzung Martin Luthers.
(= Imprint of the revised version of Martin Luther´s translation completed in 1984)
Date: Auflage (printed) 1992
Publisher: Glasgow, Scotland (U.K.): Courier International
Distributor: Wetzlar, Hessen (Germany): Internationaler Gideonbund in Deutschland e. V.
Printer: Wetzlar, Hessen (Germany): Fotosatz Amend
Contents: New Testament, Psalms and Salomo´s Proverbs
Language: German
References:
Images: Cover, Title page
Location: Collection Bibelarchiv–Birnbaum. Karlsruhe/ Baden. Germany
Comments: FlexCover, sewn binding, 692 & (6) pp ; Scripture text in double column; OT - references within NT- Text. Paragraph headings.
The New Testament text had been newly revised in 1984, the Pss & Proverbs text is that of the 1964 revision, updated in 1970.

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Title: Bibel ◆ Neues Testament mit Psalmen [und] Sprüchen
Date: 2010 / 1. —
For the Scripture text: Edited by the Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland [= Lutheran Protestant Church in Germany]. © 1999 by Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart
Publisher: Wetzlar, Hessen (Germany): Die Gideons. Internationaler Gideonbund in Deutschland e. V.
Printer: Mikkeli, Savo (Finland): St Michel Print
Contents: New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs. Text in the ''Luther''- Bible, Revised 1984, 1999 Version with corrected spelling.
Appendixes: Where to Find Help. Bible Verses Recommended for Reading. [What is] The Bible, [Who is] Jesus Christ. Who are the Gideons? How to Become Saved.
Language: German
References:
Images: Cover, Title page
Location: Bibelarchiv-Birnbaum. Karlsruhe, Baden. Germany
Comments: Flexcover 12mo, thread stitiching, 704 pp. Scripture text in double column.

A second, older, but otherwise identical, copy bears the title:

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Title: Das Neue Testament unseres Herrn und Heilandes Jesus Christus / Psalmen / Sprüche
nach der deutschen Übersetzung D. Martin Luthers.
Der Psalter. Die Sprüche Salomos (Sprichwörter)
Date: Auflage 2003 / 1
Publisher: Wetzlar, Hessen (Germany): Die Gideons. Internationaler Gideonbund.
Printer: Mikkeli, Savo (Finland): St Michel Print
Images: Cover, Title page

Two bookmarks from the Gideon's Annual Conferences 1989 in Stade (Lower Saxonia) and 1991 in Saarbrücken (Saarland).

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Title: Die NeueLuther Bibel (=NewLuther Bible) ◆ Das Neue Testament mit Psalmen und Sprüchen (New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs)
Date: 2014/ 3. For the Scripture Text: © 2009 and 2013 by La Buona Novella
Publisher: Wetzlar, Hessen (Germany): Die Gideons. Internationaler Gideonbund Deutschland e. V.
Scripture text: Wollerau, Schwyz (Switzerland): La Buona Novella e. V. Special edition for Gideons International in Germany
Printer: Mikkeli, Savo (Finland): St Michel Print
Contents: Neues Testament mit Psalmen [und] Sprüchen (New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs).
Appendixes: Where to Find Help. Bible Verses Recommended for Reading. [What is] The Bible, [Who is] Jesus Christ. Who are the Gideons? How to Become Saved.
References:
Images: Cover, General Title, Title page
Location: Collection Bibelarchiv–Birnbaum. Karlsruhe/ Baden, Germany
Comments: FlexCover 12mo, sewn binding; 704 pp. Scripture text in double column, no extras except paragraph headings.
With the year 2014 Gideons Germany changed their policy regarding the usage of translations. Now the traditional "Lutherbibel" has been replaced by the "NeueLuther Bibel", which is a private revision of the 1912 "neu durchgesehene" (=newly revised) version; it started its life in late 1994 (Gospels & Acts) and was completed in 2009. The Greek behind it is the Textus receptus, the "Received text". The traditional Luther- bibles past 1912 are translated after the Nestle and, later the Nestle- Aland NT Graece.

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Title: bibel.heute (=bible.today) ◆ Das Neue Testament mit Psalmen und Sprüchen. Nach der Übersetzung von Karl-Heinz Vanheiden. (=New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs, after the translation by Karl-Heinz Vanheiden)
Date: 2014/ 4. For the Scripture Text: © 2014 Christliche Verlagsgesellschaft
Publisher: Wetzlar, Hessen (Germany): Die Gideons. Internationaler Gideonbund Deutschland e. V.
Scripture text: Dillenburg, Lahn - Dill (Germany): Christliche Verlagsgesellschaft. Special edition for Gideons International in Germany
Printer: Mikkeli, Savo (Finland): St Michel Print
Contents: Neues Testament mit Psalmen [und] Sprüchen (New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs).
Appendixes: Where to Find Help. Bible Verses Recommended for Reading. [What is] The Bible, [Who is] Jesus Christ. Who are the Gideons? How to Become Saved.
References:
Images: Cover, General Title, Title page
Location: Collection Bibelarchiv–Birnbaum. Karlsruhe/ Baden, Germany
Comments: FlexCover 12mo, sewn binding; 768 pp. Scripture text in single column, no extras except paragraph headings.
With the year 2014 Gideons Germany changed their policy regarding the usage of translations. The "NeueLuther Bibel" is meant for the traditional reader; this "bibel.heute"- edition by K.-H. Vanheiden is more towards a paraphrase and intended for younger readers. The New Testament was completed in 2003, the Psalms in 2008, the entire Bible was published in 2010.

The original Bible book "bibel.heute" was called »NeÜ – Neue evangelistische Übertragung [=New evangelistic Rendering], when the NT was published in 2003, the title being changed with the advent of the Psalms and the complete Bible in 2008 and 2010 to »NeÜ – Neue evangelistische Übersetzung [=New evangelistic Translation]:
»Newly translated with the help of German- and English - language translations and commentaries and with regard to the original text« [= Alexandrian text type/ group, not the Textus receptus or Majority text].

Italian

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Title: Il Nuovo Testamento in the “Nuova Riveduta“- Version

Date: Prima edizione - 1992. Seconda edizione - 1994. Terza edizione - 1995

Publisher: Ginevra (Svizzera) [Geneva, Switzerland]: The Gideons International / Edizione a cura della Società Biblica di Ginevra

Printer: Stampato in Olanda [=Printed in Holland]
Contents: New Testament: Nuova Riveduta Revisione 1992 sul testo Greco.
Appendixes: Indice, Letture consigliate, Aiuto nel bisogno, Il piano di salvezza di Dio.
Language: Italian
Images: Cover, Title page
Location: Collection Bibelarchiv–Birnbaum. Karlsruhe/ Baden. Germany 

Comments: Flexcover 12mo, thread stitiching, 437 & (8) pp. Scripture text in double column, brief textual explanations in the footnotes.

Japanese

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Title: (Title page in Japanese) (New Testament Colloquial Japanese Version)
Date: Copyright 1954, 1955 by the Japan Bible Society(29th edition printed in 1970)
Publisher: The Gideons International
Contents: New Testament and Psalms
Images: Title page, Cover

Japanese / English Bilingual Edition

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Title: (Title page in Japanese) (New Testament Colloquial Japanese and American Standard Version)
Date: 1968
Publisher: Printed in Japan
Contents: New Testament in English and Japanese in parallel columns.
Images: Cover, Title page

Korean / English Bilingual Edition

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Title: The New Testament Revised Berkeley Version and Korean Revised Hankul Version (remainder of title in Korean)
Date: 1976 (27th printing, August 1985)
Publisher: Printed in Korea
Contents: New Testament in Korean and English in parallel columns. The English is the Revised Berkeley Version.
Images: Cover, Title page

Nepali

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Title: [The title page is in Neapli. The reverse reads:] New Testament (Nepali) with Psalms and Proverbs in Nepali New Revised Version.
Date: 2013? Text copyright 1997, 2006, 2009
Publisher: Nepal Bible Society for The Gideons International. Printed in Kathmandu
Contents: New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs in Nepali.
Images: Cover, Title page

Russian

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Title: НОВЫЙ ЗАВЕТ И ПСАЛТИРЬ
Date:
Publisher: Published for the Gideons Internation by National Publishing Company. Copyright: The Trinitarian Bible Society
Contents: New Testament and Psalms in Russian
Images: Cover, Title page

Spanish

New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs

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Title: El Nuevo Testamento de Nuertro Señor Jesucristo con Salmos y Proverbios Antigua Versión de Casiodoro de Reina (1569) Revisada por Cipriano de Valera (1602) Otras Revisiones: 1862, 1909 y 1960
Date: 1960?
Publisher: Los Gedeones Internacionales
Contents: New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs
Images: Cover, Title page

Gospel of John

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Title: ¿de que se trata la vida? El libro de la vida (The Life Book)
Date: 2017
Publisher: The Gideons International The Life Book Movement
Contents: Gospel of John
Facsimile: A facsimile is available on the Life Book website.
Images: Front cover, Title page (from facsilmile)
Comments: For more details about the Life Book, see the entry for the Holman Christian Standard Bible edition; The Life Book is available in the English Standard Version.

Spanish / English Bilingual Edition

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Title: El Nuevo Testamento de Nuertro Señor Jesucristo Antigua Versión de Casiodoro de Reina Revisada por Cipriano de Valera y Cotejada Posteriormente Con Viversas Traducciones y Con el Texto Griego
Date: ?
Publisher: Los Gedeones Internacionales - Printed in the United States
Contents: New Testament
Images: Cover, Title page
Comments: The Spanish text is the Reina-Valera version and the English is the King James Version. The Spanish phrase on the bottom right hand side of the front cover loosely translates to "This book will not be sold".

Thai / English Bilingual Edition

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Title: (two lines in Thai) The New Testament Thai and English (New International Version) Bilingual Edition
Date: 1986
Publisher: The Gideons International in Thailand
Contents: New Testament
Images: Cover, Thai Title page, English Title page
Comments: The Thai and English texts are arranged verse-wise in parallel columns. The English text is the New international Version as modified for the Gideons.

Vietnamese / English Bilingual Edition

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Title: Kinh Th́ánh của Jêsus-Christ, Chúa Chúng bản Nhuận-Chánh / The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ translated out of the original tongues with the former translations diligently compared. Commonly known as the Authorized (King James) Version
Date:1975
Publisher: Published by The British & Foreign Bible Society for the Gideons International
Contents: New Testament in Vietnamese and English in parallel columns
Images: Cover, Title page

Tri-Lingual Editions

Czech / Slovak / English Edition

This contains three separate New Testaments, Czech, Slovak, and English bound into one volume.

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Czech Title: Nový Zákon Našeho Pána a Spasitele Ježíše Krista Podle ekumenického vydání z r. 1985
Slovak Title: Nová Zmluva Nášho Pána a Spasiteľa Ježiša Krista Podľa Prekladu Redakčnej komisie Slovenskej evanjelickej cirkvi a. v. v ČSFR
English Title: The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ The New King James Version
Date: ? (Perhaps before 1993 since the Slovak title page references Czechoslovakia)
Publisher: The Gideons International
Contents: New Testament
Images: Cover, General Title page, Czech Title page, Slovak Title page, English Title page

German / French / English Edition

This contains three separate New Testaments, German, French, and English bound into one volume.

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German Title: Das Neue Testament Unseres Herrn und Heilandes Jesus Christus nach der deutschen Übersetzung D. Martin Luthers
French Title:Le Nouveau Testament de notre Seigneur et Sauveur Jesus-Christ Traduction d'après le Texte grec par Louis Segond Docteur en Théologie Version Revue 1975
English Title: The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
Date: mid 1980s?
Publisher: The Gideons International
Contents: New Testament
Images: Cover German Title Page, French Title page, English Title page
Comments: While not stated, the English New Testament is the New King James Version.


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