Bíblia Nova Versão de Acesso Livre

The Bíblia Nova Versão de Acesso Livre (NVA) is a complete modern Brazilian Portuguese translation of the Scriptures distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Its name in Portuguese - 'Nova Versão de Acesso Livre' - literally means 'New Free Access Version' and reflects the project's defining commitment: to release a contemporary, readable Bible into the global commons so that it can be freely shared, adapted, and built upon under copyleft terms.

Editorial approach

The NVA aims at clarity and naturalness in everyday Brazilian Portuguese while remaining faithful to the underlying Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek sources. The translation philosophy sits in the middle ground between strict formal equivalence and full dynamic equivalence: ancient idioms are typically rendered in modern phrasing rather than reproduced word-for-word, but the structure of the original is preserved wherever it can be expressed in fluent Portuguese without forcing the reader to decode archaic constructions. The resulting text reads comfortably to a present-day Brazilian audience while still working well alongside study tools and cross-references built around more traditional editions.

Canon and scope

The NVA contains the full sixty-six book Protestant evangelical canon - thirty-nine books of the Old Testament and twenty-seven books of the New Testament - with no deuterocanonical material. Standard chapter and verse divisions follow Brazilian conventions, ensuring full interoperability with concordances, lectionaries, and the various Almeida and modern editions already in widespread use.

Open license and the copyleft commitment

The most distinctive feature of the NVA is its choice of license. Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 grants anyone permission to copy, redistribute, adapt, translate, perform, or build derivative works from the text - including for commercial purposes - on two conditions: appropriate attribution to the original translators and project, and the requirement that any adaptation be released under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license. This copyleft mechanism means the NVA cannot be enclosed inside a more restrictive product; every downstream version remains free in the same way the upstream text is free.

This is a meaningful contrast with the major commercial Portuguese Bibles, whose use in apps, audio recordings, books, and websites typically requires negotiated licenses and royalty payments, and also with strictly public domain texts like the Bíblia Portuguesa Mundial, where downstream forks have no obligation to remain open.

Use on Midvash

On Midvash the NVA is included as a modern, freely licensed reading Bible. Its CC BY-SA 4.0 status makes it especially appropriate for projects that want both modern-Portuguese readability and a stable, ethically open licensing foundation - mobile applications, offline distribution, educational tools, and ministry materials that need to be freely shareable in turn. Readers who use the NVA alongside the Almeida Revista e Atualizada or the Open Nova Bíblia Viva will find the three editions complement each other across the spectrum from formal to fully dynamic equivalence.