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New English Bible

American  

noun

  1. an English translation (1970) of the Bible into contemporary idiom, directed by Anglican and other Protestant churches of Great Britain.

New English Bible British  

noun

  1. a new Modern English version of the Bible and Apocrypha, published in full in 1970

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As late as the 1960s the New English Bible described her as Junias, a man.

From BBC

So I read them in the King James Bible, the New English Bible and the New Revised Standard Bible: and very curious documents they are too.

From The Guardian

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