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{{Bible translation infobox
| translation_title=Berkeley Version
| full_name=The Berkeley Version in Modern English
| abbreviation=BV
| language=English
| complete_bible_published=1959
| copyright=Copyright by Zondervan Publishing House
| genesis_1:1-3=In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  The earth was formless and empty, and darkness lay upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.  God said:  Let there be light, and there was light.
| john_3:16=For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
|}}

The '''Berkeley Version''' is an English translation of the [[Bible]].  The [[New Testament]] was published by [[Zondervan]] in 1945 and an entire Bible was published in 1959.  A revised version was published as the New Berkeley Version or [[Modern Language Bible]] in 1969.

According to editor-in-chief [[Gerrit Verkuyl]]:  "The conviction that God wants His truth conveyed to His offspring in the language in which they think and live led me to produce the Berkeley Version (BV) of the New Testament. For I grew increasingly aware that the King James Version (AV) is only, in part, the language of our people."<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Verkuyl|first1=Gerrit|title=The Berkeley Version of the New Testament|journal=The Bible Translator|date=April 1951|volume=2|issue=2|page=80|doi=10.1177/000608445100200207 |s2cid=164676721 |url=http://www.ubs-translations.org/tbt/1951/02/TBT195102.html?num=80&x=0&y=0&num1=|accessdate=4 January 2017|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

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[[Category:1945 non-fiction books|Berkeley Version]]
[[Category:1959 non-fiction books|Berkeley Version]]
[[Category:Bible translations into English|Berkeley Version, The]]
[[Category:Zondervan books]]
[[Category:1945 in Christianity]]
[[Category:1959 in Christianity]]


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