Y'all Version Bible

  • Year 2024
  • Type Scripture
  • Genre Bible translation
  • Tradition Independent
  • Original language English

The Y'all Version Bible is a complete Bible translated from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, and is classified as a fresh translation rather than a revision of an earlier English text. Its guiding philosophy is contemporary and number-explicit: because modern standard English no longer distinguishes singular from plural in the second person — a distinction once carried by forms such as "thou" and "ye," and one that remains grammatically marked in the biblical languages — this version employs the colloquial "y'all" wherever the underlying text addresses a group. It likewise renders the divine name as YHWH, in place of the substitutions common in many English Bibles. Its most distinctive trait is that this regional usage is deployed for a grammatical purpose rather than merely to supply local color, placing it among translations that seek to make features of the source languages visible to English readers.

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