United Bible Societies - The Bible for Everyone!

BIML workers visited and purchased form most of the members of UBS, during the last 14 years.

https://www.unitedbiblesocieties.org/

The United Bible Societies (UBS) is an association of 152 Bible societies, each of which represents a different country or territory.

The UBS was established in 1946 by thirteen national Bible societies. The British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) played a particularly important role in the making of the UBS.

The BFBS was established in 1804 and systematically set up Auxiliary Bible Societies throughout the British Empire in the nineteenth century. When the colonies gained independence, the Auxiliary Bible Societies turned into National Bible Societies which then became members of the UBS. The predecessor of the Bible Society of India, for example, was the Calcutta Auxiliary Bible Society formed in 1811; the Bible Society of Indonesia developed from the Java Auxiliary Bible Society founded in 1814. In the past 70 years, the UBS has coordinated efforts to translate Scriptures into new languages.

Although Bible portions were translated into twenty-three languages under the direct auspices of the UBS, the preferred method has been to channel projects through national Bible societies. The UBS assists national Bible societies in three ways to accomplish the task. Firstly, the UBS has published aids for translators (including the journal The Bible Translator and the handbook A Guide for Translators and Revisers).

Secondly the UBS provides translation advisers who cooperate with national translation committees. Thirdly, the UBS exchanges information about translation needs among its member societies. Since the 1950s, the UBS and its member societies translated Scriptures into 279 new languages.

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