Editing New World Translation (section)

=== Editions ===

In 1984, a ''Reference'' edition of the ''New World Translation'' was released in addition to a revision of the regular volume.<ref>"Announcements", ''Our Kingdom Ministry'', September 1988, p. 4</ref><ref>''Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom'', published by Jehovah's Witnesses, p.  614</ref> The regular edition includes several appendices containing arguments for various translation decisions, maps, diagrams and other information; and over 125,000 cross references. The reference edition contains the cross references and adds footnotes about translation decisions and additional appendices that provide further detail relating to certain translation decisions and doctrinal views.<ref>"Study—Rewarding and Enjoyable", ''The Watchtower'', October 1, 2000, p. 16</ref> The ''Reference'' edition is out of print as of the release of the 2013 revision of the ''New World Translation''.

==== ''Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures'' ====

The New World Bible Translation Committee included the English text from the ''New World Translation'' in its 1969 and 1985 editions of ''[[The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures]]''. It also incorporates the Greek text published by [[Brooke Foss Westcott|Westcott]] and [[Fenton John Anthony Hort|Hort]] in ''[[The New Testament in the Original Greek]]'' and a literal word-for-word translation.{{sfn|Paul|2003|pp=127}}<ref>''Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom'', published 1993 by Jehovah's Witnesses, "Chapter 27: Printing and Distributing God's Own Sacred Word", p. 610</ref><ref>""Between-the-Lines" Translations of the Bible", ''The Watchtower'', November 15, 1969, p. 692.</ref>