Open Contemporary Version (Nepali)

The Biblica Open Nepali Contemporary Version is the open edition of the contemporary translation that Biblica, the organization behind the NIV, maintains in Nepali. Its copyright lists the years 1998, 2006, 2021, 2024, a sign of a text that went through more than one round of work before reaching this edition. Nepali is the national language of Nepal and is also spoken in Himalayan parts of India and in Bhutan. The local title, सर्वसुलभ संस्करण, means “edition accessible to all.”

Biblica's contemporary versions translate for meaning: the priority is that each sentence sounds natural in Nepali and is understood on first reading, even when that moves away from the word order of the Hebrew and Greek. It is a text meant to be read aloud, in church and at home.

It serves churches and families who read Nepali and want a direct text that is easy to follow aloud. The honest limit comes from the method itself: by choosing one interpretation to make the text clear, the translation sometimes closes doors the original leaves open. For close study of a word or a construction, compare it with a more literal version.

Biblica has released several of its translations as Biblica Open, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0), with the original available at biblica.com and open.bible. Anyone may read, quote and redistribute the text freely, with credit and under the same license, and that is what makes it possible to offer it here.