Baịbụlụ Nsọ nʼIgbo Ndị Ugbu a

Baịbụlụ Nsọ nʼIgbo Ndị Ugbu a, meaning Holy Bible in today’s Igbo, is the complete Bible in Igbo published by Biblica, Inc., the organization that holds the NIV. Igbo is spoken in southeastern Nigeria by tens of millions of people. The copyright notice records editions in 1980, 1988, 2019 and 2020: this is a text revised over the years, not a one-off project.

In English it is called the Biblica Open Igbo Contemporary Bible, and the word Contemporary tells you the method. It is a meaning-based translation: it aims for the Igbo people speak today, clear to readers without theological training, rather than copying the sentence shapes of Hebrew and Greek.

It works very well for reading whole chapters, for daily devotions, and for people meeting the Bible for the first time. The honest limit comes from the method itself: a meaning-based translation carries built-in interpretive decisions, and repeated words, wordplay and the structure of the original do not always come through. For close study, compare it with a more literal translation.

Biblica released this edition under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Unmodified copies keep the Biblica trademark and copyright notice. That openness is what lets Midvash offer it here, complete and free.